People add by default even when subtraction makes more sense | Science NewsProbably over-simplified but worth thinking about in a number of educational scenarios. “When people try to make something better … they don’t think that they can remove or subtract unless they are somehow prompted to do so,” says behavioral scientist Gabrielle Adams, also […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-03-28
How Different Cartoonists Draw Water – Part II » Ben Towle: Cartoonist, Educator, Hobo Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing | PNASHere, we describe a concept of “Ocean Sentinel” using animals equipped with state-of-the-art loggers which monitor fisheries in remote areas. Albatrosses fitted with […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-03-21
Twitch’s Latest Sensation Is A Stop Sign Where No One StopsThis is Stopsigncam, a Twitch channel that suddenly has over 125,000 followers even though it’s just a camera trained on a single neighborhood intersection in Salem, Massachusetts. yes i want a postcardi would like to send you a postcard. let’s move beyond social media let’s […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-03-14
Solar ProtocolThis website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from wherever there is the most sunshine. CMB2 – WordPress plugin | WordPress.orgInteresting alternative to ACF. How to Use Image Carousels the Right Way [2021]?Notre Dame University tested their carousel. The chart below shows the results they found. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-03-07
Jess Phoenix ? on Twitter: “Can all of us geo or geo-adjacent folks please take a moment to revel in the CV of one Matt Hall. It is a thing of wonder. #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/mFpwGSCLuq” / Twitter CryptPad: Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-sourceGoogle-like products but w/o the data privacy issues. Thanks to Jörg. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-28
How Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins took on the world’s criminals and won – BBC Science Focus MagazineI could go back and win the argument about whether this video was legitimate. That’s where it started, but I found it fascinating you could do this. I was frustrated that the reporting was so focused on what was happening […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-21
Open Syllabus: Galaxy Repl.it – The collaborative browser based IDEpretty slick 7 Inspiring Headless WordPress Examples Out in the Wild (2021) Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears – Toxic – YouTube Ed Solomon on Twitter: “Update: my old friend sent me this. It’s an interesting look – from an entirely different angle. (And I realize I had […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-14
How Shipping Containers End Up in the Ocean – WSJNice multi axis interactive visual explanation of how a ship loses shipping containers in rough seas. The Ingenuity of The ‘Ha-Ha’ | Amusing PlanetIn those early days, before mechanical lawn mowers, sheep and cattle were often allowed to graze on the ground to keep the grassland […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-02-07
The Wrong Question – O’ReillyMaking people angry might increase shareholder value short-term. But that probably isn’t a sustainable business; and if it is, it’s a business that does incredible social damage. The “solution” isn’t likely to be legislation; I can’t imagine laws that regulate algorithms effectively, and that can’t be gamed by people who are […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-01-31
Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress BlogThe Library now has a secure collection of tweet text, documenting the first 12 years (2006-2017) of this dynamic communications channel—its emergence, its applications and its evolution. Today, we announce a change in collections practice for Twitter. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, […]