September 2010
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Using computers to teach kids →
This is a radio show episode that explores using computers (but really games) to teach kids. The guests on the show are really brilliant people that understand what games are and what education really means, and how they obviously work together (games producing “embodied empathy for complex systems”). The host, however, is a bit skeptical, and honestly a bit annoying.
But can it...
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How Richard Feynman went from stirring jelly to a... →
Later, at university, his roommate returned home one day to find him leaning out of a window on a freezing winter’s day, stirring something in a bowl.
Feynman had suddenly become intrigued by a problem - could jelly set at freezing temperatures if constantly stirred?
It is incidents like this that prompted physicist Freeman Dyson to consider him “half genius, half buffoon”....
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