Category: Resources
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From no food, to too much
The UN Food Force game has been around for a while. It looks at the issues behind getting food to people who don’t have enough. Now there is a new game, Fatworld, that looks at the opposite – the politics behind having too much.
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PS3 Supercomputing
Remember way back in 2003, when the PS2 was king? Back then a few folk got together and built a PS2 supercomputer. I don’t know if those systems went beyond a proof of concept, but there is now a PS3 cluster that has. The team has even been kind enough to put together a resource…
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Visible Body – Another Google Earth for the Body
Last October, I posted about an IBM service that was looking to help improve visualization of medical records. Just recently, I came across this – Visible Body – the same idea, less the medical records. The site requires a plugin, so you will likely have to talk to the IT people for lab installs, but…
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The power of storyboarding
If you are Canadian, you might have noticed that over the past week there has been a bit of a stink going on over what the “governing configuration” of the House of Commons is. For those who are not Canadian, there are a number of sites that you can use to inform yourselves, but this…
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Anti-teaching
I haven’t heard it called this, but working toward question generation and self relevance is certainly a great idea.