Explore ‘The Last Supper’ — Google Arts & Culture Open Ocean Exploration on Twitter: “The first account of a scientist getting slapped by a jellyfish-wielding octopus occurred in the prestigious journal Science in 1963 when a young blanket octopus used a man-o-war to sting the author, resulting in the pa Seamus Hughes on Twitter: “They…they […]
Month: June 2020
Recent Work – End of June Edition
Greetings dear reader. I write to you again out of the desperate hope that writing this cements things I’ve learned better in my own head and maybe gives a person out there something that saves them some time or suffering or maybe just provides a kernel of an idea that they can improve on. That’s […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-06-14
Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid on Twitter: ““Why do you not write on your clay tablet? Why do you not rehearse your exercise tablet?” Sherua-etirat, a Neo-Assyrian princess, writes to her sister-in-law to scold her for not doing her homework in the 7th century Behind the Byline With Ed Yong – The Atlanticscience is “less the parade […]
Recent Work – Start of June Edition
My date titles continue to get blurrier. The range of stuff covered gets wider. VCU is moving any course with over 50 students to the online format. We’re supporting that move in a variety of ways. Our little R&D group is trying to answer the non-standard problems, questions, media desires. To some degree we are […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-06-07
Bankrupt Hertz Wants In on Robinhood’s Investors – BloombergThis theory is that the stock market is a fun casino, and you should buy stocks because they will go up and down in exciting fashion and might make you rich quick. This is a very old theory, and I suspect that for much of the history of financial […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-31
Leaflet Storymaps with Google Sheets and Scrolling Narrative | Hands-On Data Visualization Sorting | Grid.js […]
Random Work- End of May Edtion
So lots of random work going on. We’re trying to knock out a variety of projects prior to some work on flexible course design with a bunch of people. I spent a lot of time in meetings. I spent a lot of time building content, some grant writing stuff, and rearranging various websites. Thee following […]