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I have reached the pinnacle of my career: I’ve been cited in a talk about the origins of the universe. What could be more important? An old friend who I met in Paris back in 1994 while on my Watson Fellowship, Hugh Hill, is an associate professor of Space Science at the International Space University. Yesterday [...]
Continue reading "citations in space."October 18, 2007
Just came across this: The Blogging Scholarship. Funded by College Scholarships, this is an annual award that provides college student bloggers up to “$10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs.” Full or part-time students eligible. The 2007 deadline has just passed (see the 20 finalists, which have blogs on a range [...]
Continue reading "The Blogging Scholarship."October 14, 2007
Last weekend, after reflecting on the fact that I talk about it all the time with students regardless of what class I am teaching, I decided to take the plunge and get a Facebook account. According to the fascinating Wired article, “How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web’s Hottest Platform,” I was 1 of [...]
Continue reading "1 of 1 million on facebook."October 12, 2007
Michael Wesch, creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us, has collaborated with 200 students in his Cultural Anthropology class to create a new video, A Vision of Students Today: The video, set in a 60s- or 70s-era stadium-seating lecture hall, presents the technological and educational habits of the 200 or so students in his class. It [...]
Continue reading "if these walls could talk."
October 20, 2007
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