Nature in Numbers…a fantastic youtube video (note the block for those accessing at school) that creatively ties the math (mainly geometry) with nature. Good stuff for the science and math teacher.

Adapt or Decline…in which Anya Kamenetze puts forth the thesis that higher education only has these two options.

If social media had come first…a funny satire on what “experts” would be saying about “face to face” interactions if social media had been invented before…well, corporeal existence and conversations.

The Internet as an Operating System…IMO, it’s finally been the wide acceptance of smartphones that have shifted applications to the web (or cloud). Here’s an interesting article that defines the internet as an operating system…as well as the challenges the tech world faces with this rather large shift.

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