July 2009

I’m on Science!

July 11, 2009

And no, I don’t mean some new drug called science (though we all know that geeking out can get you a little dizzy), but I did a guest spot on the Science Magazine podcast this week since their regular podcaster is out of town.  It’s a short interview on nuclear waste management after Yucca Mountain.  [...]

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How brass instruments work

July 10, 2009

A comment from a teacher about a nice lecture on how brass instruments work. I’ve seen Brian Holmes speak and he is very good! If you have a broadband connection you can hear and see a great lecture by Brian Holmes on how brass musical instruments work. It really is very good. I saw this [...]

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Teaching the gentle art of estimations

July 7, 2009

Our education research group here at University of Colorado had a visit and a very interesting talk by Sanjoy Mahajan, director of the teaching and learning laboratory at MIT and former physics professor, last semester.  He focuses on understanding and improving students number sense, mostly through use of approximations and estimations.  He’s a very provocative [...]

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Self-refilling soup bowls: An idea whose time should never come

July 6, 2009

One of my favorite blogs, when I get a chance to actually read it, is Cognitive Daily.  They give you all sorts of wonderfully written tidbits and tests from the world of cognitive science.  Fascinating stuff. A recent study highlighted on the blog — self-refilling soup bowls — concerned what happened to how much people [...]

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