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If you’re not a gamer, it’s hard to imagine why 183 million Americans spend over 13 hours a week playing video games.  It’s even harder to see why game designer Jane […]

Williman Maclean has this report in Reuters, which continues to pour cold water on the NY Times’ article suggesting al-Qaeda is relocating for the summer. The article cites Thomas Hegghammer, […]

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The process of looking back at that time must also include looking back at previous attempts […]

I caught the tail end of a report on al-Jazeera this morning about the happenings in the south – it did not look good. News Yemen is reporting at least […]

We’ve reached the last Friday of Winter Break here at Denison, so starting Monday, the students are back. This semester I will be breaking out my volcanoes/human culture seminar class, […]

I had meant to post on this fascinating new report from the Middle East Institue on Friday when it showed up in my in-box, but events over the weekend prevented […]

One of my administrative colleagues at my school here in Shanghai is a marathon runner. I am not. The mere thought of running for more than my personal requirement of […]

Oh, those Pakistanis.  First, they claim that a drone strike killed Fahd al-Qusa and then months later al-Qusa appears safe and sound on the front page of al-Sharq al-Awsat, where […]

So, as usual, the annual AGU meeting has been incredibly busy. When I first started attending the meeting, I was able to go to lots of talks and posters and […]

There have been numerous reports on Yemen in English that have been released in recent days – some good and some not so good – but few on which I […]

I’m getting more requests to come speak to groups. Here are 8 items that are indispensable to me as a presenter (click on each image for a larger version)… 1. Presentation remote […]

The ice remains here in Ohio – and the weather is truly crazed. The temperature when I woke up this morning: 36F. Temperature an hour and a half later: 25F […]

Well, 2010 is over; hope it was a good one for you. For those who may be interested, here are a few statistics about this blog from the past year… Overview […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] n The personalization movement, enabled significantly by communication and design technologies as well as global manufacturing supply chains, is well under way… n If I […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] I’ve been reading Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing by Adam Greenfield. It’s a fascinating book and I’m learning a lot. Greenfield’s essential premise […]

If the following combination of names has meaning to you, the answer is yes: Desean, Lesean, Jeremy, Michael, Brent. Football and philosophy don’t often share the same Op-Ed column, but […]

Steve Dembo said: I don’t see it as teachers spurning technology, or choosing not to take advantage of those new ideas and tools. I think most teachers don’t even realize […]

[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]

My annual review said: n n Dr. McLeod’s work with schools is exemplary but inappropriate. n I knew then that, despite the fact that we liked each other a lot, […]

Dangerously Irrelevant was six months old last week. It has been a non-stop learning journey. Like Pete, I too have been pleased with the warm welcome extended to me by […]

I do a lot of work with schools on data-driven accountability issues. Before you immediately decide that I’m just another data huckster, I’ll point out now that my work with […]

When Scott first invited me to contribute a post in response to “What Does Every Administrator Need from Teachers” I immediately thought about the “Seven Gifts of El Milagro” that […]

We can all simplify our traditions and distill our expectations to their essence: a time of joy and peace. Adele Stan says she found the true meaning of Christmas by not celebrating it.

Around 2012, the sun’s magnetic cycle will reach its peak, increasing the chances of massive magnetic storms that could wipe out the satellites that govern GPS, television streams, and even the Internet.

Vindictive, politicized, conspiratorial, reckless: one need not agree with WikiLeaks’ modus operandi to acknowledge its service to democracy and a new culture of exposure.

For many in the Labour Party, the promotion of Ed Balls to Shadow ­Chancellor was as inevitable as it was long overdue. I was among many party members who argued […]

Watching American media outlets attempt to cover the events happening in Egypt over the past few days reminded me of just how ignorant we are about the rest of the […]

Below we discussed some of the security implications for the rising price of food in Yemen. Here, briefly (I hope) are a few things that show just how bad the […]

Here are my notes from Day 2 of the World Technology Summit. I’ve been hangin’ with Dr. John Nash, my colleague at ISU. Today we learned about India’s Barefoot College […]

Despite appearances we have not gone AWOL here at Waq al-waq – we’ve just gotten busy. Article deadlines and preparations for a couple of public talks later this week means […]