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Wikimedia Commons and scientific progress

Posted by: | February 9, 2009 Comments Off |

I’ve heard of people using the revision histories of Wikipedia articles to study how thoughts and ideas about a topic have changed over time. However, for practical use in a high school science class featuring underclassmen, this has always seemed like it would be pretty labor intensive and wouldn’t have the best time to learning [...]

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Thoughts from Buckminster Fuller

Posted by: | June 4, 2008 Comments Off |

“If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top . . . that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver, but this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging [...]

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