Some of what I come across on the web... Also check out my Content & Curation site: kristentreglia.com
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The World Wide Web, AR, VR, and MR
“Technologies like Magic Leap’s will enable us to generate, transmit, quantify, refine, personalize, magnify, discover, share, reshare, and overshare experiences. This shift from the creation, transmission, and consumption of information to the creation, transmission, and consumption of experience defines this new platform. As Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz puts it, “Ours is a journey of inner space. We are building the internet of presence and experience.”
We haven’t yet fully absorbed the enormous benefit that the internet of information has brought to the world. And yet we are about to recapitulate this accomplishment with the advent of synthetic realities."
The Untold Story of Magic leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup by Kevin Kelly via Wired. This is a looooong article, but a must read.
On a side note, Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired) is one of my favorite futurists.... check out some of his other stuff:
We Are the Web (Wired timeline/feature)
The Next 5,000 Days of the Internet (TED talk)
One more must read from today’s surfing (much, much shorter!) is a piece from the NYT: The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It.
See also The Internet Part II from my wiki for related info and articles as well as my page on Privacy.
Octopuses
Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean
Swarms of Octopus Are Taking Over the Oceans
Octopuses may indeed be your new overlords
Deep Intellect
May the 4th Be With You
My Star Wars Flipboard
SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket on a Drone Ship
This is #awesome!!
SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket on a Drone Ship
The Panama Papers
Panama Papers: The Secrets of Dirty Money
What are the panama papers?
What you need to know about the panama papers
Images from Tweets:
so, biggest corruption story EVER, and these were the front pages that reported on it in the United States on Monday:
Hmmmm.... what does that say about the media in this country? What does that say about corruption in this country??
Panama Players: The Power Players
400 reporters kept the Panama Papers secret for a year. Here’s how they pulled it off
With over 2 GB of data... 11.5 Million documents.... this, is only the beginning... there will be many, many more stories to come.... Not only that.... but:
Peace or Violence?
Is World History Becoming More Peaceful or More Violent?
Updates:
Ray Kurzweil: The world isn’t getting worse — our information is getting better
Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts
Impostor Syndrome
Learning to Deal with Impostor Syndrome
13 Charts That Will Make Total Sense To People With Impostor Syndrome
Fighting Impostor Syndrome
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Had to update my weebly with some of my favorite quotes, like this one:
#empathy #perspective
A friend of mine posted this on FB today:
"When confronted with someone whose “normal” is not our “normal,” we are forced to confront the most frightening prospect of all: that there is no such thing as “normal.” Just the accidental cultural moment we happened to be born into, a cultural happenstance that never existed before, and will never exist again.
We resist difference because it requires we acknowledge that the culture we grew up with as “normal” is just a momentary accident. It requires we accept that the world we were born into will never be the same as the world we die in. The longer we live, the more we become interlopers, even in our home towns. But, if we’d let it happen, also, the more we will learn.
...someday, someone will look back and think, “Those were the days! That was what was normal!” And that person will be wrong. And that person will be right."
(which, side note, led me here and here, but that’s a story for another occasion)
While another friend of mine emailed me today and talked about having to unfriend someone on FB today because of racist comments on a friend’s timeline related to what’s going on in politics today...
In some respects, I think that tools like Virtual Reality could be a real help in teaching people to learn to acquire a less judgeful and more peaceful mindset-- take a look at this article: The Virtual Reality Renaissance: How Learning in VR Will Inspire Action Like Never Before
... of course, technology is never the panacea, VR could be a great tool in the arsenal of the one thing if anything would help solve this problem--- education...
Education has the power to change the world... that is truly one of my core beliefs...
I’m encouraged by organizations like following as well as articles that I’ve tagged #empathy on delicious
StartEmpathy.org
ActionSprout.io
RootsofEmpathy.org
So while it's very telling that the largest factor of predictors for Trump is education- or lack of education that is- there’s still the hope that rationality will win out...
And if all else fails there’s:
How to move to Canada – Google search spikes after Donald Trump Super Tuesday success
Aliens
Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts Just Got Even More Interesting
Update: Did We Just Discover Aliens via Ideas.TED
Build A Life-Size Phone Controlled BB8 Droid (Full-DIY-Tutorial)
This is amazing... full diy instructions on Instructables
(Also worth checking out, Angelo’s other videos on youtube)
I would say “Shut up and take my money”, but it’s not for sale... I want my own BB-8 badly and while Angelo did a superb job of breaking down each step of the project I don’t know that I would be able to do-it-myself without help... so... I’m going to try to organize a group of people who also want to make their own BB-8 droids, that we can work together. I’m thinking that if we had enough people, we could do it working in pairs in assembly line fashion. Clearly, this project will be a lot of work, but it looks totally doable... with help... Stay tuned for updates!
Update: It’s on!! I’m organizing a group of IT people with the robotics team along with other interested staff/faculty/students to build one for Faculty Technology Day at the end of May... We plan to build during the first week of May....
Scientists say this 191-year-old symphony could help your heart health.
I had previously posted the link to this article, but since I had posted it as a link I couldn’t update that post... **note to self, use “text” instead of “link” when posting to tumblr... lol...
Anyhow, I wanted to update it with a playlist of the tracks mentioned in the post... since the links in the post were from soundcloud, I figured it would be easiest to create the playlist in soundcloud... which meant... yes... another social media account...
Hearthealth playlist
What other classical pieces can I add to this list?
“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified façade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or Communist; blue and white, not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.” — Michael Collins, Gemini 10 & Apollo 11 astronaut More astronaut quotes on seeing planet Earth from space: http://www.spacequotations.com/earth.html
update... aliens... maybe
The Case of the So-Called Alien Megastructure Just Got Weirder
lol... we shall see....
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David Bowie
David Bowie, An Icon Who Wrote Anthems For The Alienated
We Didn't Just Lose a Musical Hero, We Lost a Rebel
David Bowie Dies at 69; He Transcended Music, Art and Fashion
A Life of Legend: Rockstar and Fashion Icon David Bowie
RIP David Bowie — Here’s His Isolated Vocal Track From “Under Pressure” With Freddie Mercury
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Helen Green: David Bowie animated gif (above)
David Bowie In Pictures Through The Years
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The perfect David Bowie tribute is astronaut Chris Hadfield singing “Space Oddity”
Bowie himself called Hadfield’s cover “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created” when he shared the video on Facebook. The video features views of Earth from space and is spliced with shots of Hadfield singing and playing the guitar.
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - "The Little Drummer Boy (Peace On Earth)"
David Bowie’s last music video was most likely meant as a sort of goodbye
What did David Bowie do at your age? (type in your age and find out)
David Bowie's list of 100 favorite books reveal his true inner nerd
Listen to David Bowie's incredible isolated vocal tracks to his iconic songs
15 unforgettable David Bowie appearances from TV and film
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Other musicians scoffed at the web. David Bowie started his own Internet service provider.
'He was always funny': Conan remembers David Bowie with a touching tribute
Will Richardson's latest talk:
The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools | Will Richardson | TEDxWestVancouverED
Beliefs about how we can help students develop into powerful learners versus how schools work
We know how to help kids develop into powerful learners. Now, we just need to make that happen in schools. "A parent of two teen-agers, Will Richardson has spent the last dozen years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks and education. Will has authored four books (with two more on the way), including ""Why School? How Education Must Change When Learning and Information are Everywhere"" (September, 2012) published by TED books and based on his 2013 TEDx talk in Melbourne, Australia. ""Why School?"" is now the #1 best-selling TED book ever. A former public school educator of 22 years, Will is also co-founder of Modern Learner Media and co-publisher of ModernLearners.com which is a site dedicated to helping educational leaders and policy makers develop new contexts for new conversations around education.
Christmas is the season of giving
If you're on Amazon, check out Amazon smile where you can support your favorite charity everytime you shop.
Foodies, turn your pictures into donations with this app: We the Feedies
A couple of other great links to check out:
Giving What We Can
What is the Greatest Good?
Holiday Giving: 7 Children’s Charities You Should Know About
Image used under Creative Commons license (BY) by John-Morgan
The Starfish Story
I heard this story the first year I taught and have never forgotten it... I just shared it with a teacher friend of mine who needed some encouragement- thought I would share it on my blog as well..... Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean.
As he got closer he called out, "Good morning! What are you doing?"
The young man paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean."
"I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?"
"The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die."
"But, young man, don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it. You can't possibly make a difference!"
The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said- "It made a difference for that one."
How many "starfish" do you come across in a day?
Reclaim Your Privacy
Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy via The Intercept It’s a long read, but worth reading.. for those that want the cliff notes version, I pulled these from this article: Step One: Tor Software to use to browse the web anonymously Step Two: HTTPS Everywhere Forces your browser to use https (think *secure session*, like the kind of connection you want when you are shopping or banking online) Step Three: Duck Duck Go Search engine that doesn't track you (set as the default of your browser) Step Four: KeePassX Password manager, use in conjunction with 2-Factor Authentication [// I think this is great for websites in general but banking, credit card, email and other "mission critical" sites-- I'm still a little skeptical about relying on using a key system for these sites] Step Five: Signal Encrypted instant messenger & calling without having to change your number
Shooting Data
Guns Are Cool sub reddit that tracks mass shootings
Gun Violence Archive
Shooting Tracker
Two Redditors Are Changing the Way the Media Counts Mass Shootings
Gun Deaths vs Terrorism Deaths (video)
America’s gun problem has everything to do with America’s masculinity problem
Campaign Zero
awesome convo
Conversation with Chris Hadfield and Randall Munroe
