The Coming Transparency Wars
The Coming Transparency Wars A report issued Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety boasted of the fact that red-light cameras were responsible for a significant drop in highway fatalities at the intersections where they were posted. With this one...
Curiosity-Driven Education
Curiosity-Driven Education “If a teacher can be replaced by a machine, they should be.” – Arthur C. Clark In 1999, Professor Sugata Mitra embedded a computer in a wall in a slum in New Dehli, connected it to high speed internet and left it there. Kids in the...
My Weekend with the new All-Electric Nissan Leaf
My Weekend with the new All-Electric Nissan Leaf I looked over at my clock and saw that it was 3:19 am, a time when most people would normally just roll over and fall back to sleep, but I was wide awake. And from past experience, I wouldn’t get tired again for 2-3...