Archive for February, 2007

Lifelong computer skills

27 February 2007

What computer skills do we need to teach kids? Nielsen provides some interesting insight.

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Lorenzo Aureli and farazhasan_59 – are you out there?

25 February 2007

I still get questions from the math site from people who don’t leave a real email address. How can I help if I can’t get back to you?

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The Insider

21 February 2007

The movie tells the story of how Dr Jeffrey Wigand blew the lid on the tobacco industry’s lies about smoking addiction. There is also a revealing insight into the fear that big business can bring to the media.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

21 February 2007

A short review of the H2G2 movie.

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The math behind blockbuster movies

20 February 2007

There was an interesting article about Ron Fedkiw of Stanford. He is heavily involved in the mathematics behind computer graphics.

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The IntMath Newsletter – Feb 2007

15 February 2007

In this newsletter:
1. This month’s math tips
2. Chinese New Year
3. Latest Revisions
4. From the math blog

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Gaisma – real-life sine graphs

13 February 2007

Gaisma has many interesting day/night graphs, which are (almost) sine curves.

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Lawn is over-rated

13 February 2007

What do Australian expatriates miss when they live in a new country?

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Wikipedia – banned?

12 February 2007

Some lecturers ban students from using Wikipedia for research. Is this the right way to go?

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Russ Weakley’s CSS Worshop

8 February 2007

Russ Weakley ran an interesting CSS workshop in Singapore today.

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