05/16/2019
How to Cook 40 FREEZER MEALS for New Moms in ONE Evening!!
In today's freezer meals video, I show you how to make 40 freezer meals for new moms in ONE evening! I used all the freezer meal recipes and big batch cookin...
03/26/2015
A practical application spanning multiple domains of knowledge with a real world benefit, that may produce a paradigm shift. Brilliant!
Engineering students use sound waves to put out fires
Two engineering students at George Mason University have found a way to use sound waves to quash fires and have built a type of extinguisher using what they have learned that they hope will revolutionize fire fighting technology. Viet Tran a computer engineering major and Seth Robertson, an electric…
07/07/2014
It can and it will!
Can the Maker Movement Infiltrate Mainstream Classrooms?
Maker Faire has catalyzed a global interest in tinkering to understand. Is it only a matter of time before this approach to learning makes it into mainstream classrooms?
06/05/2014
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, condemns British education system
Schmidt criticises division between science and arts and says UK 'should look back to glory days of Victorian era'
01/09/2014
This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education
RiseEarth : This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education
12/17/2013
Let's Bring The Polymath — and the Dabblers — Back | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Some of the most exciting advancements in computing right now come from the field of deep learning, and companies such as Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are all involved because frankly, this kind of interdisciplinary approach isn’t happening in academia. Where are all the generalists, anyway?...
11/05/2013
Anyone can learn to be a polymath – Robert Twigger – Aeon
Our age reveres the narrow specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things
10/21/2013
The world is getting closer!
Urban Outfitters' Co-Founder Is Building A College Campus Without Classes, Tests, Or Homework
The co-founder of Urban Outfitters is helping to build a new campus in Pennsylvania where college students will spend an entire semester innovating.
10/04/2013
Have you ever found institutional education interfering with your own efforts to learn?
School is no Place for a Reader « Canadian Notes & Queries
A perplexing fate awaits a reader in an elementary school. There is no place for this strange child in classroom, library or playground. Watching my daughter caught in this predicament I find myself troubled by the paradox of an institution charged with teaching children to read that seems unable to...
09/18/2013
TEDxLSE 2013: All Power to the Polymath by Ella Saltmarshe
Ella Saltmarshe is a screenwriter, journalist, strategist, campaigner and entrepreneur. She is one of the founding directors of The Point People, a company t...
09/11/2013
This is why we hope to one day set a fund aside for independent student-driven research projects, pursued without an agenda except to advance knowledge.
An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia: A Resignation
Here is a mind-blowing text that was sent to all EPFL researchers (presumably) by a doctoral student during the week-end. It expresses feelings that are worth to think about.