Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Video – Teacher movie. Administrator movie.

Scott McLeod

The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.

Many of you have never seen these parodies of the old Monster.com commercial… Happy viewing!

Teacher Movie (Marco Torres & Lesley University)

Content not available

Administrator Movie (Wes Fryer & University of Central Oklahoma)

The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.

High Culture

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

A monochrome portrait of a man against a blue gradient background, evoking the intense drama of House of the Dragon. Features partial text overlays on the left and right sides.

High Culture

From fan to showrunner: How “House of the Dragon” creator Ryan Condal landed TV’s biggest job

Ryan Condal, who worked in pharmaceutical advertising before Hollywood, talks with Big Think about imposter syndrome, “precrastination,” and Westeros lore.

a man sitting in a wheel chair next to a laptop.

High Culture

Stephen Hawking’s famous voice belonged to this pioneering MIT scientist

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

An animated collage of images showcasing a person skillfully drawing with a pencil.

High Culture

Animation may be entering a new renaissance. Here’s why.

Big Think spoke with animator and animation historian Tom Sito about the cyclical evolution of animation.

The Learning Curve

Can money buy happiness? Depends on how you spend it.

Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.

Up Next

Guest Thinkers

Should we be paying ‘invisible’ education professors?

The latest issue of EDUCAUSE Review has a number of excellent articles on openness. One that particularly resonated with me was Maria Andersen’s To Share or Not To Share: Is […]