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The Present/Future of Teaching is Online and Free (01): The Khan Academy

Salman Khan on TED

The Khan Academy YouTube Channel
Learn almost anything FOR FREE
THE KHAN ACADEMY WEBSITE
with a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 315 practice exercises…
129,520,088 lessons delivered!

on my END (sur ma faim) [updated: to be continued/against stupidity]

[I can't go on, I will go on. - Samuel Beckett
After more than two years of existence (1740 posts and 37,500 views later),  the PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd blog had stood for what I had found worthy of notice, a sort of time-capsule, more efficient than any tombstone.
I had thought of stopping this, but I will continue]

Those who know me know why I have had to focus on “the stupid topic of stupidity,”
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus -
there is so much else in the world but…

  • In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Az emberi butaság végtelen/Human stupidity is infinite/La bêtise humaine est infinie. Hungarian Saying
  • La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l’infini/Human stupidity is the only thing that gives an idea of the infinite. Ernest Renan
  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

I had thought of stopping this…

I had hoped to dislodge some of it (cf. Stephen Crane’s poem about pursuing the horizon)… but (criminal) stupidity exists in every corner -  and will continue to do so – from the religious to the secular, from the streets to universities, and within every continent, nation, ethnicity, individual, in women and in men, including myself.

I had thought of stopping this…

Our only hope is kindness and to remain humane towards each other – and not just humans.
Let the so-called animals, the mountains, the trees, the plants, the sky, and everyone, teach us.

I do believe that this time here online IS NOT time passed elsewhere or more directly that:

Life is elsewhere/La vie est ailleurs… Arthur Rimbaud
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch

I remain available for speaking/writing/teaching and all sorts of creative activities to challenge “what is.”

Eve Ensler & the Body/Earth Screams

Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa & لتسعة وتسعون The 99 الـ ٩٩

His website and the 99′s website.
Isaac Solotaroff’s documentary that will air on PBS’s Independent Lens on October 13th

Michael Shermer’s “The Believing Brain”

Find out about “Patternicity” and “Agencity.”

The Believing Brain
His website.

Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

Moral transparency on TED.

Sixth Sense for Meta Data Integration: Pranav Mistry

Jeff Skoll, Nobility and Humility

Don’t put down “media” when you have such people as Jeff Skoll and Participant Media.

Matthieu Ricard on the Habits of Happiness

A rare vitality… a biologist, a monk, a photographer, the founder of thirty humanitarian projects, a forum on altruism, “the happiest person in the world” – author with his father, Jean-François Revel, of “The Monk and the Philosopher”.
Here is his own website.

The AlloSphere at UC Santa Barbara


JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara.

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