Chatting with a friend about current events and 9/11 prompted me to look at Loose Change – Final Cut, a documentary about 9/11. An eponymous Colonel is mentioned in the first 15 minutes, so I looked up Colonel Steve Butler on the web, which led to a comprehensive reference on History Commons and a 9/11 …
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The problem with PowerPoint
25 years of power point presentations and its almost become a part of our vocabulary. “Let’s see the powerpoint” or “Send me the ppt”. Here’s a potted history and some tips on making it work well for you. BBC: The problem with PowerPoint – 25 years of PowerPoint
More evidence: females outperform.
Another study, now from the UK, shows that women outperform men at university level. A Higher Education Policy Institute report shows that women are more likely to get places in the top universities and go on to get better grades. This should not be surprising after all females have more DNA than males and are …
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Entrepreneurship Education
A new report in a valuable area has been released by the World Economic Forum. It is a bit institutionally long winded but has valuable recommendations and worthy objectives. Entrepreneurship Education Executive Summary pdf Full Report pdf
Entrepreneurship
A Special Report by The Economist. While it is the big companies and their CEO’s that get the headlines and the red carpet treatment, it is the small and medium sized businesses that make up the bulk of the world’s economy. They are the employers of most people, produce the most goods. They also are …
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Legalisation is the least bad solution: stop the drug wars and save money.
How to stop the drug wars – An unusual leader for The Economist, and perhaps a bit surprising in this economic crisis. But the arguments are sound. In a nutshell, prohibition doesn’t work, it rewards criminals, penalises poor farmers, and costs governments much money. Legalisation, though imperfect would save billions and allow governments to focus …
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Better than Google? Well open, cheaper and might be bigger …
The Internet Archive and Open Library are related projects to put books on-line. The inspiration and motivation behind them is seasoned entrepreneur Brewster Kahle. The project itself will prove to be a wonderful resource and it is being approached in the spirit of liberty of which the web was born. Unlike Google’s project, which will …
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Cooking makes humans intelligent.
It’s a pet hypothesis that interesting food makes interesting (and interested) people. There seems to be a correlation between interesting people and their interest in food and cooking. People who appreciate variety in food and who can play in the kitchen seem to be that little bit more passionate about life. … well, that’s the …
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Getting education wrong, and right.
Attention to the school curriculum in the UK has produced recommendations for changing the system. Change is good, but it appears that the proposals may eliminate important aspects of formal education and fail to provide life skills as well as fail to give factual knowledge. Two articles from the Economist outline the problems: In praise …
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A new view of the early earth
Evidence from analysis of rocks in Australia have repainted our picture of the early earth. Until recently it was taken for granted that the earth, from birth 4.5 billion years ago for about 700 million years, was a hellish place of heat and flames. Geologists now almost universally agree that by 4.2 billion years ago, …
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