This article (”Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly”) looks interesting - The product is a kind of YouTube for intellectuals (wanna watch lectures on modern economics, policy, and scientific discoveries, instead of wannabe rebels griping against The Establishment as embodied by their parents? Then this is for you…)
I’m also impressed [...]
I’ll put this in Links (under medical) too, but check out this anatomy site: http://www.winkingskull.com.
You can learn all the parts of your body, and then test yourself on them. I haven’t done this yet; most of what I learned in highschool biology went in through my eyes, and spilled out onto the page, ne’er [...]
So this NYT opinion article on primary/secondary education makes a couple of really excellent points, the first as quoted below:
The U.S. has not yet faced up to the fact that it needs a school system capable of fulfilling the educational needs of children growing up in an era that will be at least as different [...]
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