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Illustris universe “simulation”

Illustris project video is an example of how powerful a short YouTube can be for learning; here’s the recently released video simulation of a representative portion of the universe evolving from post Big Bang to present. Also an example of the...

Tale of Two Schools: NYTimes

From the NYTimes weekly magazine, an article that compares and contrasts students at two high schools in NY. One in a upper class neighborhood, and one in a lower class neighborhood. I use the word “class” advisedly here, but for lack of a better term,...

WP update to 3.9

Word Press has released a substantive update to version 3.9 This may cause bugs, especially with 3rd party WP plugins, of which we have many at our site. For example, TinyMCE has said their upgraded plugin to work with 3.9 includes changes that may be troublesome....