CARPE DIEM: The Higher Education Bubble: It’s About to Burst. now that’s a crazy graph.

Op-Ed Contributor – Universities Are Heading Toward Academic Bankruptcy – NYTimes.com. holy shit those are some big numbers.

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

High School Courses Developed by MIT > Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey. I’ve tried twice to read GEB and failed both times. Perhaps these video lectures can put me over the top.

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | TED.com. interesting talk about the problems with current math curriculum and textbooks.

Sal Khan and the Khan Academy to the rescue – (37signals). great video from the creator of Khan Academy.

McSweeneys Internet Tendency: The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid is Your Liberal Arts Degree. “Sure, you’ve never even flown a plane before, but with only ten days until the asteroid hits, there’s no one better to nuke an asteroid.”

Building a Better Teacher – NYTimes.com. this is one long article. interesting stuff about the lack of training teacher’s receive.

nzakas’s computer-science-in-javascript – GitHub. guy has a bunch of standard CS algorithms (binary search, base64 encoding, etc) in javascript for teaching purposes. Come to think of it, javascript is pretty good language for teaching programming at a high school level. Code in notepad, run and debug in Firefox and it’s applicable to making your myspace profile even uglier.

Bill Moyers Journal . Greg Mortenson. great interview with the author of Three Cups of Tea about what should be done in Afghanistan.

On the Way to the N.F.L. Draft, a Year of Fulfillment in England for Rolle – NYTimes.com. a rhode scholar who played safety at Florida State. crazy.

Study Shows New York Charter School Students Score Better – NYTimes.com. the report is interesting in that it compares kids who applied to charter schools but divides them based on whether or not they got accepted. “selection bias” has been long argued why charter schools perform better on standardized tests.

Academic Earth – Video lectures from the world’s top scholars. index of video lectures from a bunch of schools. if TED wasn’t occupying enough of your time.

Star’s Vow to Win or Pay Stirs Women’s Basketball – NYTimes.com. Girl playing Oklahoma basketball has vowed to repay her scholarship if they don’t win the tournament this year.

Gallup : On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution. this is in the US. Poll includes education level and church attendance breakouts. i’m wondering how 11% of postgrads can “not believe in evolution”. via boris.

globeandmail.com: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job. he gave everyone an A+.

Strike to Lose – Torontoist. about the absolute clusterfuck that was the York strike. I wouldn’t hesitate to transfer if I went there.

ACM Names 44 Fellows for Contributions to Computing and IT. Congrats to Prof. Ian Munro, who made the list. I took my only grad course (CS840 – Advanced Topics in Data Structures & Algorithms) with him. The course kicked my ass and taught me a valuable lesson: don’t go to grad school.


Branford Marsalis: “What I’ve learned from my students is that students today are completely full of shit”. via rethink.

Springwise: A being space for learning English. a gym-style membership to a language learning lounge. kinda cool.