By admin on March 26, 2006 @ 9:35 pm
A recent NYT item by Edward Tenner included this bit:
Many students seem to lack the skills to structure their searches so they can find useful information quickly. In 2002, graduate students at Tel Aviv University were asked to find on the Web, with no time limit, a picture of the Mona Lisa; the complete text of either “Robinson Crusoe” or “David Copperfield”; and a recipe for apple pie accompanied by a photograph. Only 15 percent succeeded at all three assignments.
Graduate students? Only 15%?
Be afraid, be very afraid, for the future…
By admin on March 21, 2006 @ 9:34 pm
Got some more Becca pics posted. Can’t believe she’s one-and-a-half. Amazing.
Funny how her hair is now growing out: fine and straight on the top (from Mommy) and curly at the bottom (from Daddy, at least when he had hair long enough to actually curl). Cute as all get out; of course, that’s Daddy talking.
Tags: becca, parenting
By admin on March 21, 2006 @ 9:32 pm
In the last few weeks, we’ve had a bunch of small earthquakes (for example) out in the Andaman Sea about 250 miles WNW of here. I didn’t feel them but the alert emails from the USGS keep coming in.
Last week, the authorities here actually sounded the tsunami warning. Probably just being overly cautious; these were only approx 4.5 to 5.5 magnitude and the Christmas 2004 quake was 9.0, one of the strongest in history. Does show, however, that the Christmas disaster is never far from our minds. Brings to mind the old Cold War days when every time the TV went out, it was easy to imagine that it was a nuclear blast somewhere…
Tags: thailand
