Ireneo’s Memory

The University of Nottingham would like to take you on a journey across the periodic table of elements, one Youtube video at a time.

People around the world are putting the rapid back in their presentations: twenty slides, for twenty seconds apiece.  Perhaps you’d like to see it in action, or perhaps even see it live.

The Pyramid of Argumentation, Maslowtized.

Finally, a CCG-style game that actually teaches something!

The legendary computer science guru writes, in 1998, that “if I had the opportunity to deviate from the existing textbooks, I would certainly make major changes by emphasizing several notational improvements that advanced mathematicians have been using for more than a hundred years.“

A real-time animated face is being used to teach kids with autism how to interpret emotions.

A charming flash-based puzzle + trivia game aimed at young children, seeking to teach both factual knowledge and critical thinking skills.

A Mathematician’s Lament was written by Paul Lockhart about the impoverished nature of modern math education.

Empirical evidence (sort of) that some books make you smarter than others!

The beauty and elegance of the four kinds of Moebius transformation.

Education in America: lots of stupid.

Think fast!

The Bradshaw Foundation gives an educated guess as to the history of human migration.

Disney instructs us about the public domain, through a clever application of fair use.

Picture representations of a variety of laws of economics being violated.

A historical review of computer user interfaces.

A free web-based panoramic photo-stitching service.

A five part series dating to 1991, introducing Dawkins’ ideas to the world via the BBC.

Powers of ten, for your mouse wheel.

The Philosopher’s Magazine wants to see how your moral compass spins by probing taboo areas.  Warning: sex with a chicken may ensue.

For the last 45 years, this small town has been threatened by an underground coal fire.  The fire will continue to burn for another 250 years.

You’ve never explored the brain like this before (unless you’re a neurology person, anyway).

How are maths related to one another?  Some sources are better than others.

Strange Paths author Gilgamesh would like to provide some hard numbers to the debate of interstellar colonization (and, strangely, tag the post as “philosophy.”)

Does living in a rich country mean your children are living well?  Apparently not! (pdf warning)

This “First Aid For Radicals And Activists” is on indefinite hiatus, but they still have some useful information for anyone who feels up for some civil disobedience.

Let gravity do the thinking.

Colorado U’s Physics Education Technology site has a huge library of flash and java simulations to play with.

A massive visualization of the pattern of influence among history’s great minds, with mini-bios pulled from Wikipedia.

If you think you understand ‘margin of error,’ you would do well to double-check your understanding of what Mark Chu-Carroll asserts is “the most widely misunderstood and misleading concept in statistics.“