"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." — T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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The Audiocast Diaries →

Gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion of the radio indus­try heav­ily turned it into a one-way medium, con­trol­ling con­tent, and lim­it­ing fre­quen­cies and own­er­ship. Maybe this new tech­nol­ogy [a con­ver­gence of pod­cast­ing, radio and mobile phones], which allows two-way com­mu­ni­ca­tions, will change radio back to its ori­gins of a two-way medium, as it was in Marconi’s day.

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The Changing Face of Workplace Learning →

The future of work­place learn­ing is mobile, and dis­trib­uted mobile at that.

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Being an Unperson →

“There is no such thing as a true unper­son. An unper­son is a ghost, a prej­u­dice in people’s minds.” A beau­ti­ful and ter­ri­fy­ing video of how we let peo­ple know they don’t mat­ter by some­one who clearly does.

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You don’t have to read a book to talk wisely about it →

Dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sor of lit­er­a­ture Pierre Bayard explains how to appear extremely well-read with­out turn­ing a page.

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Sandbox theme for WordPress makes it easy to style author comments without the need for plugins or template modifications.
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Shrinkwrap Licenses →

Shrinkwrap and click­wrap agree­ments start with the phrase “READ CAREFULLY.” If you actu­ally did this, you would dis­cover these “agree­ments” make a mock­ery of the law and of the very idea of form­ing agreements.

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Al Gore’s Foot Soldiers →

Want to really send a mes­sage? Make a movie and train dozens to dis­sem­i­nate its mes­sage a la for­mer US Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore’s 2006 doc­u­men­tary An Incon­ve­nient Truth.

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Learning with Audio: Lessons from Television — Monk, House, MD, and NCIS →

“In medias res” is a tech­nique used in TV and film in which the viewer is cat­a­pulted into the mid­dle of the action, usu­ally a dra­matic pvio­tal moment on which the rest of the plot is struc­tured. What is acti­vated is emo­tional involve­ment…

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Unhappy Meals →

The mes­sage is: eat food, mostly plants, not too much. Sim­ple. So why is it so dif­fi­cult to learn?

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Intelligence in the Classroom →

Half of all kids are below aver­age intel­li­gence and too many Amer­i­cans go to col­lege. Strong views, all based on the critically-flawed IQ test. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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