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02/20/08 // Link:
Tom Coates on the One Laptop Per Child Project By far the best piece of writing on the One Laptop Per Child project that I’ve run across (my own included). I’ve been following this project for over a year now (partly because of my job at Wired, but also …continue reading »
02/08/08 // Link:
Woman Does Own Caesarean Section to Give Birth This isn’t exactly breaking news, but it’s so incredibly shocking I think it bears repeating. Ines Ramirez, of sourthern Mexico is the only woman known to have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself: The sun had set hours ago. The …continue reading »
09/23/07 // Link:
The Guardian Unlimited Talks To Dave Eggers Dave Eggers on generosity, charity and giving it away: Dave Eggers has made an empire out of generosity, and on the cheap as well. The earliest issues of McSweeney’s, his eccentric literary quarterly, look today as if they were printed …continue reading »
06/25/07 // Link:
Girl, 2, Becomes Member of Mensa This is pretty damn amazing. From the BBC: “A two-year-old girl from Hampshire has become the youngest ever female member of British Mensa.” “Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test — putting her …continue reading »
06/18/07 // Link:
Irena Sendlerowa Named Polish National Hero From the Guardian: “Irena Sendlerowa was named a national hero by Poland yesterday for her secret work in the Warsaw ghetto. She smuggled children out through sewers and in suitcases and boxes. Irena Sendlerowa, 97, who has been nominated for …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
The Lonely Sea Monster A sea monster sat on a rock sad and all alone … until one day, a little girl floated on a little boat. See what happens next in this delightful story called “Lonely Sea Monster” by Deanna Molinaro. [Via Neatorama]continue reading »
12/22/06 // Link:
How to Build a Cardboard Castle With Mr. McGroovy’s Box Rivets and free castle plans, anyone can build a cardboard castle for under $10! Instructions and plans included.continue reading »
10/17/06 // Link:
Does Television cause Autism? Interesting Cornell study on the links between toddlers watching television and the development of autism? Short answer: it doesn’t help.continue reading »
08/09/06 // Link:
A children’s bookstore in Beijing They definitely did not have anything this cool when I was kid.continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:
Why Children Shouldn’t Have The World At Their Fingertips Thomas Edison was a great inventor but a lousy prognosticator. When he proclaimed in 1922 that the motion picture would replace textbooks in schools, he began a long string of spectacularly wrong predictions regarding the capacity of various technologies to …continue reading »
05/17/06 // Link:
Scientific American: Mindful of Symbols “On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol. These errors show how difficult it is to start thinking symbolically.” But don’t say anything about how dangerous it …continue reading »