Landis Vinchattle An aggregation.

September 29, 2015

How PowerPoint is killing critical thought | Andrew Smith | Comment is free | The Guardian

Filed under: Knowledge and Learning,Links,Technology — Tags: — Landis V @ 6:13 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information

Great read.

November 14, 2014

Peter Suber, “Paradox of Self-Amendment in Constitutional Law”

Filed under: Knowledge and Learning,Law,Links — Tags: — Landis V @ 8:49 pm

http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/psaessay.htm

August 16, 2014

Bucket List

It’s difficult for me to start a specific “bucket list”, as I want to do just about everything that can be done, and see just about everything that can be seen, but I realized this afternoon that I didn’t have a central repository for these kinds of “someday” things.  So I decided to start one.

Places To See/Visit

This is a list of places I’d like to see or visit in my travels, both in the continental US and worldwide.

Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona, AZ

Ran across a few pictures of this area while surfing around today.  Beautiful.

July 22, 2014

SkillPath eNewsletter | A One-Two Punch for Breaking Through Writer’s Block

Filed under: Knowledge and Learning,Links — Tags: , — Landis V @ 7:26 pm

http://www.skillpath.com/index.cfm/article/display/art/1187-US/se/910467/z/68845/acnum/8476941

This was interesting, and I think I’ve heard something along these lines before.  I’ve tinkered a bit with mind maps in the past but not extensively.  I’ve intended to do more content creation, so this may be a means to that end that would be worth a try with only a small time investment.

April 28, 2014

15 Science Experiments You Can Do With Your Kids | Mental Floss

Filed under: Knowledge and Learning,Links,Parenting,Projects,Science — Landis V @ 6:56 am

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53612/15-science-experiments-you-can-do-your-kids

Nice aggregation of links.  Some of these look like they would be fun.

January 9, 2014

How to make Belgian Candi Sugar | An Engineer and His Carboy

Filed under: Food and Drink,Knowledge and Learning,Links — Tags: — Landis V @ 10:26 pm

http://joshthebrewmaster.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/how-to-make-belgian-candi-sugar/

I heard about making one’s own candi sugar from a friend today, so this made my list as well.  I’m pleasantly surprised at how straightforward it is, and another item on the seemingly endless list of things one can learn without half trying once introduced to the hobby of brewing.

January 12, 2013

BerkeleyX edX courses

Filed under: Knowledge and Learning,Links,Mathematics,Parenting,Programming — Landis V @ 7:55 am

https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/Stat2.1x/2013_Spring/about – Introduction to Statistics:  Descriptive Statistics

https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/CS191x/2013_Spring/about – Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation

Ran across these while looking at Scratch as something my kids might be interested in at some point.  I’ve always wanted to take a statistics course… this might be just the opportunity I have been looking for (if I can find the time 🙁 )

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