Here’s the first of a series of TED videos I’ll be posting that I found when I went looking for advice on decision making, motivation, and happines.
This one is from Dan Pink about the problems associated with standard economic incentives.
He speaks mainly about business, but I find that it has applications to education as well [...]

In 1980, PBS aired Cosmos: A Personal Journey – a thirteen part series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter.
I started reading the accompanying book while at work the other day.  What a great way to kick off my quest for Internet learning.  Sure, technically it’s a still a tv series and a [...]

Neat map showing the a current areas of day and night.
From Opentopia