Donald Clark Plan B: 10 ways Pokemon Go portends AR in learning
Donald Clark Plan B: 10 ways Pokemon Go portends AR in learning
Source: blogspot.com
Good read. "Humanising healthcare" by Dr Margaret Hannah. Great ideas briefly and clearly explained. The book outlines an
Good read. "Humanising healthcare" by Dr Margaret Hannah. Great ideas briefly and clearly explained. The book outlines an approach in Fife to reduce winter pressures on beds by encouraging patients, staff, and community to seek better health care. The ideas are based on Alaska's Southcentral Foundations's...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Nearly half of U.S. adults get news on Facebook, Pew says: More than 40 percent of American adults get news on Facebook,
Nearly half of U.S. adults get news on Facebook, Pew says: More than 40 percent of American adults get news on Facebook, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation. (Disclosure: Knight is a supporter of the Lab.)
Two-thirds of Facebook users access...
Source: niemanlab.org
Just finished reading 'not exactly: in praise of vagueness' by Kees Van Deemter. Fantastic concepts and well explained but
Just finished reading 'not exactly: in praise of vagueness' by Kees Van Deemter. Fantastic concepts and well explained but I found it really hard going. He seemed to want to dive in to all the logic, theoretical background, and notation of the topic but then it would have felt more like a textbook. ...
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Incredibly focused Japanese author describing her tidying technique. Basically get rid of everything that you don't really,
Incredibly focused Japanese author describing her tidying technique. Basically get rid of everything that you don't really, really like and then store things where you can see them all. The KonMari technique. I enjoyed the argument she gave about sorting out your stuff. You can do it now, do it at some...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Just read Sapiens by Yuval Harari. Sparkling account and interesting perspective of the history of humankind. Full of stories.
Just read Sapiens by Yuval Harari. Sparkling account and interesting perspective of the history of humankind. Full of stories. Learnt about Montezuma, learnt a lot about the agricultural revolution, the affluence of hunter-gatherers, and a lot about our disregard for other animals. Basically we haven't...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Climate change is corroding our values, says Naomi Klein: The need for fossil fuels is destroying regions and communities,
Climate change is corroding our values, says Naomi Klein: The need for fossil fuels is destroying regions and communities, causing war and famine in the process, argues the activist and author
Source: theguardian.com
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie Boyle: The health secretary’s name is so redolent of upper-class brutality he belongs in a Martin Amis book where working-class people are called Dave Rubbish
Source: theguardian.com
Read this lovely short book "On Bullshit". It succinctly and elegantly describes what it is. Very useful if you want to
Read this lovely short book "On Bullshit". It succinctly and elegantly describes what it is. Very useful if you want to better understand whether you (or someone else) is lying or crafting some finely wrought bullshit.
Source: princeton.edu
A History of Nothing: An animated look at the history of zero.
A History of Nothing: An animated look at the history of zero.
Source: sspnet.org
Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change
Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change is ultimately due to capitalism. A destructive capitalism that extracts from nature recklessly thinking growth can be without limit on a finite planet. However, the book ends with...
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Just read the "Happy Life" story - saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi. This is about a children rescue
Just read the "Happy Life" story - saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi. This is about a children rescue centre in Nairobi started 14 years ago and has now expanded to caring directly for around 100 children across two sites. They have offered for adoption over 170 children. The city...
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Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago
Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago and re-issued recently with an introduction by Yuval Hariri) and having stood the test of time and debate. It is called 'the bible' of the animal rights movement and rightly so ......
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Malawi's fearsome chief, terminator of child marriages: Chief Kachindamoto has broken up 850 child marriages in three years,
Malawi's fearsome chief, terminator of child marriages: Chief Kachindamoto has broken up 850 child marriages in three years, and banned the sexual initiations of young girls.
Source: aljazeera.com
Less than 1 percent of millions of Google e-cigarette searches focused on quitting smoking: A study of Google search trends
Less than 1 percent of millions of Google e-cigarette searches focused on quitting smoking: A study of Google search trends led by researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and San Diego State University as part of the Internet Tobacco Vendors Study shows...
Source: eurekalert.org
Flow, the secret to happiness: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot
Flow, the secret to happiness: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
Source: ted.com
Machines Just Got Better at Lip Reading: New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on
Machines Just Got Better at Lip Reading: New speech recognition technology can distinguish sounds that look the same on lips, making lip reading easier for machines
Source: ieee.org
Great read! We can eat almost anything, but we are uncertain what we should eat. This omnivore's dilemma has not only vexed
Great read! We can eat almost anything, but we are uncertain what we should eat. This omnivore's dilemma has not only vexed our ancestors trying to avoid poisonous foods it continues to occupy much of our time. We seem incapable of deciding what to have for lunch without consulting to dietary guidelines,...
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Nottingham woman, 93, found living in 'squalor' - BBC News: A council investigates how a 93-year-old woman was left to live
Nottingham woman, 93, found living in 'squalor' - BBC News: A council investigates how a 93-year-old woman was left to live alone in "shocking" conditions despite carers being paid to look after her.
Source: bbc.co.uk
The Google search terms 'diabetes' and 'recipe' have contrasting patterns repeated each year over the festive period covering
The Google search terms 'diabetes' and 'recipe' have contrasting patterns repeated each year over the festive period covering November to January. Could this be evidence of human behaviour from big data? I'm on a Big Data MOOC #FLbigdata and was introduced to this tool on Google. I've shown in the...
Source: google.com
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