Last month, I wrote about educator David Christian’s TED talk for GeekDad. Earlier this week, the video of this talk was released.
Being Human
The Web Ecology Project recently completed a two-week social experiment where Twitter bots tried to pass as human. This reminded me of a couple other projects related to fakery on Twitter, Truthy and Cyc AI.
The Periodic Table of Little 500
Larry Buchanan of the IDS adapts the periodic table of elements to a form more appropriate for this week of Little 500.
Spies Like Me
The Geek Zodiac replaces all those Chinese animals with stuff that matters to Geeks. I’m jealous of Archie’s sign: Time Traveler.
Funding the Community Arts
The Wisdom of Play is a suite of community engagement activities taking place in May 2011. We are trying to raise at least $2000 to cover the material costs using Kickstarter.
Watching Eagles
The video stream of an eagle family in Decorah, Iowa, has allowed millions of people to watch three eaglets come into the world.
50 Years In Space
April 12 marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s 108-minute flight into history. Tomorrow, a Soyuz capsule bearing his name is about to rendezvous with the International Space Station.