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Webcams for schools
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No comments on Webcams for schoolsPutting webcams in classrooms to catch problem pupils – seems like a great idea to me, you wouldn’t believe the number of parents who think their kids can do no wrong. As for privacy concerns, I think maybe some kind of key escrow agency might be a good idea, wherein (say) at least two out…
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Ragging
Is ragging – making new initiates/players/students perform pointless tasks – the key to forming a strong community?
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I don’t understand
The three words which I find most difficult to say are, ‘I don’t understand.’ Today, I was doing a bit of programming to do with convolving histograms and the like, and I had to sort out the axes. I asked my supervisor, who tried to explain it to me. “What you have to do is…
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Few words
When I was at secondary school, my headmaster – a very intelligent man and nice guy, to boot – made a interesting observation which has remained with me until today. He said that if you want to find the most intelligent person in a meeting, the person who says the most useful things, you shouldn’t…
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Baby Signing
A thought-provoking article on baby signing: babies, if taught properly, can sign when they are only six months old. This expands their range of communication beyond crying, which I can imagine helps parents a fair bit. Apparently learning signing doesn’t delay the onset of speech, either.
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DeLong and science
Brad DeLong makes an electric motor and worries about kids and science.
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Driving simulators
Something I’ve been idly wondering about on and off for a while is why there aren’t any decent driving simulator/trainers for PCs (or consoles). Surely there must be a market for this sort of thing? If you sold a package with force-feedback driving wheel, pedals and gearstick, together with a fairly up to date and…
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Science Year
I’ve just become a student member of the British Association of Science so that I can attend upcoming the Festival of Science for free. In the newsletter, I’m told that Science Year has been extended to the end of 2003. I’ve never been a fan of grand gestures like ‘Science Year’, partly because I’ve never…
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Armchairs and onions
One of the great things about being in UCSD right now is that I get to go to any classes I want, free of charge (unlike the poor saps who have to pay hundreds of bucks for the privilege – of course, they need course credit…). So at one of the recent cognitive neuroscience classes…
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SemiShake
Whenever I go on holiday, I always think it’d be a good idea to do something spontaneous and unusual. Most of the time though I don’t really bother since there isn’t anyone I know who’s around to watch, and in any case the ideas I have invariably involve a fair amount of risk or money.…
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