Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Y’all come back now, hear?

How many times did I hear the title of this post when I was growing up in Virginia and visiting my relatives in the South?!

Hope you can join me, Miguel Guhlin, and Doug Johnson (and maybe a mystery guest?) at EdTechTalk this evening for the Women of Web 2.0 broadcast. We will be talking about issues related to K-12 technology leadership and administrators. The fun starts at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific. You also can log in to the chat room (use the link on the left) to interact with us and our hosts, Vicki Davis, Cheryl Oakes, Jen Wagner, and Sharon Peters. If you can’t join us this evening, you can visit the Women of Web2.0 archives later on and download our podcast.

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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