Tree Profile: Aspen – So Much More Than a Tree – National Forest FoundationOne aspen tree is actually only a small part of a larger organism. A stand or group of aspen trees is considered a singular organism with the main life force underground in the extensive root system. Before a single aspen trunk appears […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-01-13
Wrest control from a snooping smart speaker with this teachable ‘parasite’ | TechCrunch“We looked at how cordyceps fungus and viruses can appropriate and control insects to fulfill their own agendas and were inspired to create our own parasite for smart home systems,” explain Karmann and Knudsen in a write-up of the project here. “Therefore we […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-01-06
Programming SucksAlso, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-12-30
What’s Next for Hack EducationI am hoping that the shift away from compiling all the goings-on for that weekly news round-up will give me more time to think deeply and critically about education and technology, instead of perpetually being enraged by how many terrible and silly things are marketed as “solutions” by folks who just […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-12-16
That Isn’t a Mistake – dy/danBut the vast majority of the work we label “mistakes” is students doing exactly what they meant to do. We just don’t understand what they meant to do. Teaching effectively means I need to know what a student knows and what to ask or say to help her develop that […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-12-09
Soviet big red missile button switch, surplus – Varusteleka.comSoviet big red missile button switch, surplus Deleting array elements in JavaScript – delete vs splice – Stack Overflow****use splice instead delete will delete the object property, but will not reindex the array or update its length. This makes it appears as if it is undefined: Why […]
Photography – #165
View this post on Instagram #phomag_tour condensation as filter A post shared by @ twwoodward on Dec 6, 2018 at 11:48am PST View this post on Instagram #phomag A post shared by @ twwoodward on Dec 6, 2018 at 4:29pm PST View this post on Instagram Strange lights, strange shadows A post shared by @ […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-12-02
?³ #wcus on Twitter: “TinyMCE was never tying to be a layout tool, like MicroSoft Word does not try to be PowerPoint. The Block-Based editor is trying to be both a typing tool and a layout tool. Today, I think it fails at providing a fluid interface to TinyMCE was never tying to be a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-25
A Business With No End – The New York Times**This article is amazing and has all the things. Olivet University was established in California in 2000 by an evangelical pastor named David Jang. His global religious community — often referred to, simply, as “the Community” — has been the subject of numerous articles that allege […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-11-18
Photos: The Ubiquity of Smartphones – The AtlanticWorth looking at. from David C […]