Archive for July, 2006

This is an interesting quote from Theodore Roosevelt, US president from 1901 to 1909. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that […]

In the Shenandoah Valley in the US, a new school is being set up: Shenandoah Valley Community School. Based on the Sudbury model (which I wrote about earlier in Flower children or the real deal?), Shenandoah Valley Community School will be a "free range" school, where students decide what, when and where to learn. I […]

There are lessons in this program for deaf children - all learners would benefit from incorporating similar conditions.

On 25th July I had a surge of visitors to my posts on Heymath (Friedman & HeyMath - but how do you get in? and Heymath Update - I'm in. I was intrigued why there was a surge and now I know. On the 24th July, BBC ran an article How maths can be great […]

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This is an excellent plausible and scary thriller about how to shut down the US, without firing a shot.

This is a manual on how to end your own civilisation - by ruining the environment.

Development of mathematical content on IntMath up to 2006.

There is a moral dilemma when it comes to teaching probability. Are we in danger of promoting gambling? Should we worry about it?

I just wasted a night trying to install that IE7 Beta 3 rubbish on my home PC. I want to tweak my sites so they work okay in this CSS non-compliant browser. I got: Internet Explorer 7 could not be installed. You must restart your system to confirm that any changes to your system are […]