Raspberry Pi

The technology you're born with has no history. There's no instinctual difference between animal husbandry and the internal combustion engine, for example - you've had them for your whole life. And the radically new stuff, which to us seems controversial, or faddish, or dangerous, is completely normal to kids. And in 20 years, we'll all think that way, and we'll move on to having the same argument about some new doodad.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/leadership_360/2013/11/will_our_use_of_touch_screen_technology_be_led_by_toddlers.html

Yeah, everyone's split, but this is worth reading because if you don't know about Raspberry Pi, you should. Maybe the most revolutionary thing you can buy at any price, and at $30, what's stopping you?

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/interview/2305982/microsoft-adobe-raspberry-pi-and-sap-split-on-computing-curriculum-reforms

Lots of raw numbers, but I think everyone should have them committed to memory when it comes to climate change.

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-11-11/we-have-the-renewable-energy-we-need-to-power-the-world-so-what-s-stopping-us#

The secret to raising money

Apparently the secret to raising money is to drive your business into the ground. I was trying to do the other thing.        http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/5064278/blackberry-ceo-steps-down-as-company-secures-1-billion-funding-from

Once again, helium rules.                                                      http://gizmodo.com/western-digitals-new-hard-drives-are-filled-with-heliu-1457963235

30 years ago we dreamed about how wonderful it would be if these stars, of all the stars, had planets. Prayer answered.  http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/11/alpha-centauri-triple-star-system-does-it-harbor-the-closest-possible-habitable-planets-to-earth.html

Space!

 When I was young, Brontosaurus  was a thing, East Germany was a place, Pluto was a planet, and there was exactly one star we were sure had any planets at all - ours.  Now all of that's wrong.  How many globes, atlases, textbooks and encyclopedias are even usable anymore?  It's one of the strongest practical arguments I can think of for migrating to a digital, collaborative version of educational materials.  We learn so much, so fast, and overthrow old ideas so regularly that calling any of this information "fixed" or "finished" just seems ridiculous.  So read the attached article on exoplanets - a term that didn't really exist even 10 years ago.  A whole new field.  What new field will exist 10 years from now?  How many of our current ideas will it overthrow?  I can hardly wait.

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