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Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, speaking at Skillshare’s Penny 2012 conference.
Wagner’s insights echo John Seely Brown’s in the excellent A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, as well as Sir Ken Robinson’s vision for changing educational paradigms to better foster creativity.
(via explore-blog)
(Fitzgerald with both his daughter, “Scottie,” and wife, Zelda)
This will be quick. Coffee in one hand, I have been shifting through videos and skimming articles from a collection of blogs. Entertainingly done and smartly written as they all were, I couldn’t help but feel myself so distant and detached as if they were merely appealing to the exterior me. I don’t know if anyone else will thoroughly understand this. It’s a slightly unbearable feeling.
To the purpose of this post, I came across a letter. F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the American classic the Great Gatsby (I am sure everyone has at least heard of the book), had written a letter to his 11 year old daughter, who was then away at camp. There he had written an advice to the list of things she had to worry and to not worry about. I believe there is something valuable in it.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/things-to-worry-about.html
I’ve been reading around for lack of drowsiness and I came across this really cool article. I’ve never had those cool night lights, the kind that spread little stars and planets in your walls. This has reminded me of how much I’ve loved and been amazed by our universe! I can’t believe how lucky we are to have this chance at wonderment.
CLICK IT: http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/space_infographic
» The Filipina who proved Einstein right
Meet Reinabelle Reyes, a 28-year-old astrophysicist who astounded scientists all over the world when she proved Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity on a cosmic scale. That was when she was only 26.
Einstein’s theories have been verified many times, but it took Reyes and her Princeton University collaborators to verify his Theory of General Relativity, beyond the confines of our solar system.
A graduate from my current school, Ateneo de Manila University. I’m not very good in science (sadly, it was always my worst subject) but I always found it fascinating. We discussed her a lot in my Science & Technology class this semester. I think she’s wonderful.
The average mind is like an ocean during a storm where the waters are violently agitated, each gust of wind is a storm of passion or desire or of a duty that must be accomplished or one hundred and one other irritations or anxieties and detours of the mind to which proper concentration is the cure.
Guruni Varamei (via toynbeeconvector)
