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The Myth of Fun and Interesting

Most educators have brought the myth that academic learning does not require discipline--that the best learning is easy and fun. They do not realize that it is fluent performance that is fun. The...

Why Online "Noise" is Good For You

Blogs, RSS, IM, Twitter and FriendFeed - the number of sources of sources of information online can feel like it's multiplying exponentially every day. It's easy, natural even, to feel overwhelmed. ...

Movie Review: The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian

A disappointing sequel that suffers from too many familiar Hollywood ills. One of the major problems with all film series is what might be called middle filmitis. This is when films that are not...

Modern Britain: No Laughing Matter

Earlier generations of Britons believed that certain things simply could not happen in Britain. Even in the country’s darkest moments of war or depression, this conviction differentiated the then...

Complicated politics in the ME

Iraqi politics certainly is complicated. Try this article.So, I was at a great Center for American Progress panel yesterday with journalists Nir Rosen and Michael Ware. They have been in Iraq for...

Baptism of ex-Muslim by Pope causes stir

Folks, you're probably aware of the coverage that the baptism of Magdi Allam on March 22 as part of an Easter vigil service has been causing. Allam is an Egyptian-born convert from Islam to...

Experimenting with Education

The modern age is entropic by nature it seems, and we are bombarded daily by different ideas and conflicting news stories, indicative, perhaps, of national confusion in a period of change. Yet...

Flash Game Pick: Questionaut (Amanita Design)

Questionaut is a new point and click adventure by the developers of Machinarium and the Samorost series. True to it's name, players can expect to be quizzed on matters such as physics, mathematics...

Sega's Yakuza 3 tops Japanese sales charts

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo WiiWhile the game's setting has been flung back to the 17th century, Sega's latest Yakuza title has successfully found a place on a modern console, with the...

Automatic Employee Patent Assigment Rights Obtained to Challenge Jurisdiction

In DDB Technologies v. MLB Advanced Media (February 13, 2008) the ultimate question became whether the patent interest of inventor Dr. David Barstow ("Barstow") were previously assigned to his former...