learning

103 posts

  1. In which I ponder former selves
  2. collection of McLuhanisms
  3. A tip is like…what?
  4. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes
  5. How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time
  6. Joy of Dullness
  7. The History of Visual Communication
  8. 9 ways to use space in your presentation
  9. The latest MacArthur Fellows got their genius grants today
  10. Common phrases in Icelandic
  11. The Public School
  12. A worthy bit from The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
  13. Garr Reynolds talking about presentation design & delivery
  14. The origin of creative juices
  15. Dave Barry on college
  16. A wiki with a list of academic blogs divided by field
  17. Dave Gray teaches how to draw a stick figure
  18. 10 Things I Have Learned, Milton Glaser's life lessons
  19. Atlanta Pecha Kucha
  20. What have you changed your mind about? Why?
  21. Cloze, reading, learning, life
  22. Wikipedia has a reference desk
  23. New poll shows correlation is causation
  24. policies to encourage professors to help students complete the dissertation
  25. Lapham's Quarterly looks like a worthy new periodical
  26. Merriam-Webster's words of the year
  27. The secret to raising smart kids
  28. LibX for Emory University Libraries
  29. Before a game of tournament
  30. Alec Soth Lecture at the High Museum
  31. Wikipedia essays
  32. NYT article about fashion
  33. Bayeux Tapestry online with explanatory notes
  34. Alan Nelson links to a collection of Stephen Hawking's lectures and colloquia
  35. art-history, and in fact the rest of the humanities, were useless disciplines
  36. We've got a new batch of MacArthur Fellows
  37. Wikimindmap maps out the subtopics and links in Wikipedia articles
  38. Clothundrum, noun
  39. Someone took fantastic notes from an Edward Tufte seminar last month in Chicago
  40. recordings from the 2007 Singularity Summit
  41. I wish I was going to VizThink '08
  42. Personal MBA Recommended Reading List
  43. Constrained writing
  44. An introduction to OpenType
  45. Matthew Stibbe suggested some writer's reference sites
  46. Alright, here's a rendition of my own personal info-designer chart
  47. Anil Dash noticed the recent popularity of pixel graphs
  48. Steven Pinker writes in defense of dangerous ideas
  49. Mises University is happening this week at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
  50. taxonomy of logical fallacies
  51. There's a Star Trek wiki, almost 26,000 articles
  52. If you cut up a large diamond into little bits
  53. brain-stretching discussion
  54. David Friedman did these sketches of people enjoying libraries
  55. Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void wrote a manifesto on creativity over at ChangeThis
  56. An essay on student expenses in graphic design schools
  57. I Went to a Bookbinding Workshop!
  58. Tom Lutz reviews books about how to read, and inevitably, what to read
  59. Spreeder is another web speed-reading application
  60. A nice roundup of 77 tips to amp your learning
  61. I didn't know the World Almanac publishes a monthly newsletter
  62. Whose art is it?
  63. Wikipedia chart explaining cousin relationships
  64. medieval bestiary
  65. talks about storytelling in 4 short films
  66. It was pretty idyllic all around
  67. Scholars from Reed College and Stanford reviewed over 150 praise studies
  68. How to break in a new book
  69. Comics with problems
  70. Dalai Lama (dot) Emory (dot) edu
  71. How to work better
  72. Exploring the question: Is philosophy progressive?
  73. The playground of the future may feature 'play workers' to help guide
  74. What I Did On Martin Luther King Day
  75. speaks for many of us
  76. here's a periodic table of visualization methods
  77. scientific argument for keeping Saddam Hussein alive
  78. An interview with Steven Johnson
  79. a video comparing the planets, the Sun, and a number of other stars
  80. I just learned about Open Culture yesterday
  81. Students rate their professors
  82. Lifehacker collected their most popular posts from this year
  83. predictions for where search engines are headed in the next year
  84. Swivel is a web service that lets you compare public statistics
  85. UMich School of Information
  86. WordCount: 86,800 English Words by Frequency
  87. New York Times Magazine selects the 74 best ideas from 2006
  88. Leah Peterson has a great set of interviews with bloggers
  89. I was at work today in the library and saw the most wonderful thing
  90. Encyclopedia Brittanica has a weblog
  91. Typography Lessons
  92. comic-form introduction to lockpicking
  93. Productive Talks
  94. Richard Dawkins
  95. If only everyone knew about research beyond Google
  96. soon available in paperback
  97. fresh, current article on internet phenomena
  98. Visualizing Meaning
  99. join Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence
  100. What you need is a helpful Venn Diagram
  101. access to all their scholarly publications
  102. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, today is Museum Day!
  103. William Chace's recent article