Quite a long read, but there are a whole bunch of interesting factoids here about the strange ways our brains are wired.
not at all creepy and strange, honestly…
At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine. Behind this boom is Professor Fumio Kayo of the…
Funny collection of pictures from school science fairs. I think this must be an american thing because I don’t think I can remember us having science fairs at school here.
Interesting article looking at the reasons people are willing to pay for stuff on the internet, rather than obtaining it for free.
maybe ‘to learn anything’ is stretching it a bit, but certainly a fair number of things.
Nice little applet that displays real time feeling information culled from blogs all round the world. There’s quite a few different visualizations, so it’s worth having a bit of a play.
Trip to Heaton Park
