Archive for February, 2006

The airline industry were amongst the first to use simulations for learning. At Asian Aerospace today, I asked 3 of the simulator exhibitors to give me a fly, but they politely refused. Damn - it would have been a lot of fun: One of the exhibitors was showing this scenario-based simulation for military training: Learning […]

It wasn't all about the military at Asian Aerospace today. The Airbus A380 was there - an impressive piece of machinery: And in the flesh, sporting the livery of Singapore Airlines (when SIA finally get one, it will be the world's first in service): These guys were enjoying the airshow. The show didn't work all […]

The Asian Aerospace / Asian Defence Technology event at Changi today was more disturbing than enjoyable. What is it with this crazy world? Governments and revolutionaires are willing to pay billions for incredibly sophisticated weapons. If the wealthy countries (especially the US) took only 10% of what they spend on military hardware and spent it […]

Explanation This is Part 2 of a (lengthy) exchange between a reader and myself regarding a particularly troubling summation notation question recently. See the beginning of it here: Summation Notation (part 1) Continuing... Hi again sir Thanks for replying back sir Crazily, would it be ... ??? and the same for ... ??? Thanks for […]

Differences between plagiarism and cheating?

Quote from a TERC (Technical Education Research Centers) Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (1989) Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) in math teaching: "In reality, no one can teach mathematics. Effective teachers are those who can stimulate students to learn mathematics. Educational research offers compelling evidence that students […]

The Americans continue to worry about the state of their nation - especially what it means for the future with China and India experiencing rapid growth. Some gems from a USA Today article: a Raytheon Corporation survey of 1,000 11-to-13-year-olds released last month found that 84% said they would "rather clean their room, eat their […]

I went to an interesting series of talks on art and technology at the Singapore Science Centre yesterday. The opening talk was by the highly-cerebral Tosa Naoko (土佐 尚子). She showed a movie about the ZENetic Computer which she co-developed. ZENetic Computer attempts to teach the user about Zen Buddhism, Japanese culture, ink paintings and […]

China and India are hell-bent on "catching up with the West" and building pollution-spewing cars. We will be stuck with $50+ per barrel oil and world instability as a result for a very long time. Why don't they take the opportunity to pour money into development of fuel cells or hybrid cars and tax the […]

Since the US President influences all of us, and less than half of the eligible voters in the US even bother to turn up to vote, why not let everyone in the world vote for the US president? Any guess what percentage of the vote Bush would get then...? Be the first to comment below.