“The rumor, according to one (unofficial) e-mail: “Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer (Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, American Gangster) is looking for a new cultural attaché.” The e-mail explained:
This person would be responsible for keeping Brian abreast of everything that’s going on in the world; politically, culturally, musically. . . . They’re also responsible for finding an interesting person for Brian to meet with every week . . . an astronaut, a journalist, a philosopher, a buddhist monk. . . . There is LOTS of reading for this position! Grazer may ask you to read any book he’s interested in. You’ll probably get to read about 4 or 5 books a week and you may be required to travel with him on his private plane to Hawaii, New York, Europe—teaching him anything he asks you about along the way. . . . You will also be provided with an assistant. . . . Salary is around $150,000 a year. . . . You will be to Grazer what Karl Rove was to Bush.”
“The so-called $100 laptop project is working to boost education for children in the developing world.
The rugged, energy efficient laptops have been designed to be used in remote and environmentally challenging areas.
They are currently being tested around the world, including at the LEA primary school, Galadima, on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria.”
“Why is an economist studying terrorism? I have two answers. First, participation in terrorism is just a special application of the economics of occupational choice. Some peo ple choose to become doctors or lawyers, and others pursue careers in terrorism. Economics can help us understand why.
The second answer is that, together with Jörn-Steffen Pischke, now at the London School of Economics, I studied the outbreak of hate crimes against foreigners in Germany in the early 1990s. Through this work, I concluded that poor economic conditions do not seem to motivate people to par ticipate in hate crimes.”
“The ArtJail combines these two institutions with similar missions into one large structure with facilities that are physically separate but visually mingled; the imprisoned children are edified, as Doctor Barnes intended, by the presence of great art, while Foundation visitors get a rare glimpse of the education of some of our culture’s most under-privileged young people.”
Scholen krijgen de ruimte het vak in te vullen in overeenstemming met hun eigen godsdienstige kleur. De inspectie gaat het vak niet inhoudelijk toetsen, weet Paul Boersma van de Besturenraad. ,,Scholen mogen juist door middel van het vak vorm geven aan hun eigen identiteit.”
Jan Blokker: “En als we op grond van die afspraak toestaan dat er scholen zijn waar kinderen worden opgevoed met allerlei religieuze en maatschappelijke wanen – waarom zouden er dan geen scholen mogen zijn waar kinderen helemaal niet worden opgevoed?”
Frontline: “Mitra decided to place a high-speed computer in the wall, connect it to the Internet, and watch who, if anyone, might use it. To his delight, curious children were immediately attracted to the strange new machine. “When they said, ‘Can we touch it?’” Mitra recalls, “I said, ‘It’s on your side of the wall.’ The rules say whatever is on their side, they can touch, so they touched it.”
Within minutes, children figured out how to point and click. By the end of the day they were browsing. “Given access and opportunity,” observes O’Connor, “the children quickly taught themselves the rudiments of computer literacy.”" (via)
“The Last Minute Blog has posted a tutorial for using an Automator action to upload images from your desktop to Flickr via the right click context menu.”
“Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet?”
“If you’re looking for a one-stop-shop for free learning links, this thread is a good place to start. They’ve listed journals, papers, textbooks, podcasts, videos and more on a wide variety of topics. And, via the comments, the list keeps growing.”
