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Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children
Negroponte and Seymour Papert, a member of the One Laptop team and an M.I.T. professor who developed the Logo computer programming language. The education minister took notes on his contacts with the Intel saleswoman and sent them to One Laptop officials. .
A letter to the Junior High Sports Guy
I know this sounds crazy, but I want you to bail on the Bruins as soon as someone named Ulf Samuelsson does something terrible to someone named Cam Neely. Just trust me.) ESPN has an all-sports radio network, a magazine, a book department ... basically, they've swallowed up the entire city of Bristol, Conn. They also have something called a Web site that everyone can read on their computers. It's a 24/7 newspaper that's updated constantly and has about 30,000 writers and columnists writing for it. Incredibly, you're one of them. That's right, we get paid to write about sports for a living. I had to tell you what's going on in sports right now. Right now, you're trapped in 1982 -- you just got cable and have about 10 decent channels to watch. In the year 2007, you'll have more than a hundred decent channels to watch.
PBS Slammed For Error-Laden 'Nova' Episode
It begins with a lit review, which you do in any high-level humanities course in college, such as english or history (no one in these fields would call them "scientific"). Then, it launches into a bunch of educated guesses and assumptions, with values attached to them. It actually reads like a climate computer model. You know, the ones that predict that a 1 degree rise in temperature will cause the oceans to boil off in a run-away greenhouse effect. I suppose you'll point to the fact that it was peer reviewed somewhere. Big deal. History and literature articles also undergo peer review. That's not to say that the paper could not be rewritten to be scientifc. Instead of taking its arbitrarily assigned values as givens, it could actually try to propose ways for nailing down the actual data.
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