May 2012
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May 11th
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May 10th
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What's Up With the Oxford Comma?
May 6th
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May 4th
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Why Floundering Is Good →
Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later. The learning paradox is at the heart of “productive failure,” a phenomenon identified by Manu Kapur, a researcher at the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education of Singapore […] Kapur has...
May 4th
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Code Academy →
Learn to code Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
May 3rd
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May 1st
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A Mathematician's Survival Guide →
edwardm-pearce: An 18-page anecdotal corollary on living as a mathematician in public. An excellent read.
May 1st
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Birthday Maths →
psychlist: …here are a few birthday / age-related math riddles for you to ponder. I didn’t write any of them. The first is modified from the March 2012 edition of the New England Math League competition; the second is from an old newspaper clipping (source unknown); the third is the most confusing and the most difficult Algebra I word problem I’ve ever encountered (Algebra: Structure and...
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April 2012
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Apr 21st
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Coursera: Free Courses from Princeton, Stanford,... →
Coursera Founders: Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Stanford computer scientists
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Biotech Brief: How do I get into a research lab? →
eutektiks: This is a very common question that I would get from other undergraduate students. First and foremost, I want to let everyone know this:Regardless of your experience and class level, it is not impossible for you to get into a research lab. From my experiences and from what most underclassmen have told me, an underlying myth that deters most students from joining research labs early...
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Apr 11th
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March 2012
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Big Huge Thesaurus Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes... →
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Mar 15th
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10 Excellent Essays About Words →
A Tetw reading list How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard - Not reading is our main way of relating to most literature, find out how to make the most of your ignorance. Tense Present by David Foster Wallace - In one of his finest essays, DFW reviews a dictionary of English usage, thereby tackling everything from democracy and free will to racism in academia. The Rise of...
Mar 15th
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February 2012
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10 Brain-Based Learning Laws That Trump... →
From Jeff Hurt’s blog: If you play cards you know the importance of a trump. No, not the Donald with the bad red hair. A trump is a card which ranks higher than the played cards. A trump suit outranks all cards of plain suits. Literally, a trump refers to any sort of action, authority or policy that automatically prevails over others. The Brain’s Natural Learning Trumps The fields of...
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Feb 27th
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