History
Posted in education, history with tags teabags on June 13, 2008 by msutherlFrom Fark.com:
Today’s misleading headline: The teabag, a British favourite born by mistake, is 100 years old
Again, I wanted to post it before Tony had a chance.
Archive for the education Category
Major: Pre-Ninja
Posted in education, fake news with tags fake news, ninjas, education, pre-ninja, that's right on April 23, 2008 by McN00bI love this post of a detailed outline for a undergraduate cirriculum designed to train ninjas. The post is written by a dean at a small college, so it’s got all the right buzzwords. Funny snipets include:
Capstone design project: “Ninjas: The Deadliest Mimes”
Graduate Admissions
Posted in education with tags admissions, grad school, physics on January 31, 2008 by McN00bThe Cosmic Variance Blog has an awesome post about what goes on in the physics grad school admission process.
Training Mythbusters
Posted in education, science with tags liberal arts, mythbusters on January 24, 2008 by McN00bA Swathmore Prof got on the topic of benchmarking performance in education. This is a tough thing to do for a liberal arts education, which definitionally excludes having a fixed body of knowledge that you can test at the end. He suggested measuring students by this metric: would they make good Mythbusters?
I thought that was a neat idea. Of course, I’m biased because love the show. But I wonder what the Mythbusters think about being put on such a pedastal. When the Mythbusters came to OSU to talk to the students, I was stunned that they didn’t really see themselves as science/education role models. They didn’t say that they didn’t want to be role models of education, but it was almost as if they hadn’t thought about it before. After hearing a little bit more about their biographic info, I guess I’m not that surprised. Their training is almost the opposite of a liberal arts college training: very hands-on, “IRL” experience.
I found a link to a interview with the mythbusters, but I haven’t dug into it yet.
