Friday, August 09, 2002

Good weblog for science and technology news: Bubble Chamber. 7:49:49 PM     Laser light and thermal heat could help improve the accuracy of mammograms. (from Scientific American Online.) 7:45:42 PM     Read this! Spectacular idea, well articulated. Establish a "Teacher's Bill" analogous to the "GI Bill" of the last century, to make it worthwhile for people to teach. Proposal: How to get more teachers in the classroom.. One of the biggest problems in American education today is that there simply aren't enough teachers to teach all our children, especially in the fields of math and science. The following is a proposal on how to get more people to pursue teaching, at least for the shorter term. [kuro5hin.org] 7:36:24 PM     A cautionary tale from Reason  magazine on the rewards of genuine brilliance in teaching: Stand and Deliver Revisited. Jaime Escalante was essentially driven out of public education because he was good. Think about it. 7:24:38 PM     Edsger W. Dijkstra - a visionary among computer scientists - died a couple of days ago, and has been much remembered. Here are some resources: Manuscripts obit from The Register notice from Univ. Texas, where Dijkstra was a professor. Dijkstra's parable on how "not to make a mess of it" (when programming) 7:16:54 PM     Pamphleteers and Web Sites - interesting article on Dan Bricklin's weblog. Compares blogging to the pamphlets circulated during the American Revolution. 5:59:04 PM

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