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This type of selection (“people who don’t grate me”) often favors people that are similar to us. Project Implicit[1] at Harvard has done interesting work highlighting our difficulty to make “objective” judgements (esp. about other people that are different from ourselves), and that we go to great lengths justifying our biased decisions not just to others but to ourselves. Hence “implicit” biases.

1. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/aboutus.html

The file name is just “hosts” and it’s located in a folder called “etc” - maybe that helps? I think there is also a macOS setting that hides certain system files. You may have to unhide it first.

I like the concept of community-driven recognition, but I would caution against separating assessment from learning (if you used "instruction" to mean the moment when learning happens). Communities that engage in collaborative work (like open source projects, or guilds) are very good at surfacing and recognizing expertise. Making assessment a separate process increases the risk that we measure the things we can count, rather than the things that really count (butchering the Einstein quote).

I always suggest the Learning Web chapter of Deschooling Society to anyone interested in ideas for technology enabled learning ventures. It's brilliant. It also helps to skip some of the more political chapters as they are likely to turn people off from his compelling vision for learning societies.

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Homeschooling is the right entry point for disruptive change. The new home schooling community (as opposed to the traditional religion focused home schoolers) is large and growing and much more open to new ideas than the education system.

I second this. The panel includes true visionaries like Adam Kay and Seymour Papert. Seymour's comment about kids learning french in France remains one of the most compelling suggestions for the type of technology-supported learning we should be focusing on. The comments above contain many of the reasons why change is hard and slow, but education needs more of these kinds of big ideas rather than incremental improvements of the current system. I also find it useful to distinguish between the process of learning and the system of education.

A few colleagues at work recently started their keto diets (primarily in order to lose weight). I am interested in gut health and looked at some of the background materials I could find. It seems reasonable that the body can switch its energy source to fat, but the (long term) effects on overall health seem to be poorly studied/ understood.

It sounds different if you say

"The average person works until April 24 to pay for things like schools, healthcare, rule of law, roads and trains, internet, etc...".

My impression is that the states who argue for small federal government, and for solving problems locally, seem to also prefer private sector solutions over government services (state and federal). So, the choice is not really between federal or state government, but between government and no government. And secondly, things like healthcare are expensive. Making it the sole responsibility of the states means that poor states will get poor healthcare. That is one reason all developed countries have some form of government provided or regulated healthcare system.

While the content of the book is one interesting aspect, the way it was created and is being disseminated is also fascinating. It was a collective effort of econ professors from around the world, who all teach a localized version of the materials. They hired a company from south africa, to develop an open publishing platform. The goal is to turn markdown content into a number of outputs, ranging from a Oxford University Press textbook to a responsive static web site. Most of the tools are open source and all of the core content is on github. (Disclosure: I provided some input to the CORE leadership when they were starting to think about an open platform).

Is a credit freeze the most effective option here? What else can be done to prevent the possible effects of this? The FTC site also mentions a Fraud Alert for cases of suspected identity theft:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

Does anyone have experience with this process and could share some tips, e.g. is it likely to be successful, is it open to non-citizens, how much paperwork are we talking about?

Your comparison doesn't make sense. Local, state, and federal levels are all part of one country. There is no equivalent institution at the global level.

For global challenges like climate change, regulation at the global level seems like the right responses.

I also love paper (and notebooks and pens) but am in the same situation. The new iPad Pro + Pencil look like a real alternative. I like the idea of having all my notes stored digitally especially if I can get OCR to work reasonably well.

Strengthening public libraries is an excellent idea, with lots of public benefits. Libraries are one of the most trusted public institutions in the US and provide a range of key social services including access to education, internet, health information. They also reach and support a demographic that is currently not well served through online-only programs.

I co-founded Peer 2 Peer University [1] a non profit that brings people together in learning circles to take online courses. When we switched from online-only to face to face meetings in public libraries we started teaching adults who had fallen out of the education system and who were not benefiting from online courses. And I can't say enough positive things about the librarians who we work with.

[1] https://p2pu.org

I would hate to see SoundCloud disappear or get dismantled in an effort to migrate its user base into a different social network. The core idea, to provide a way for amateur creators to share their music, and connect with an audience, is sound. I also think there is/was a gap in the market for podcast creators that SoundCloud authoring tools could have filled. Can some combination of charging creators for advanced authoring or analytics, and placing ads in a free listening tier, not provide sufficient income to keep something like this going?

For those (like me) who immediately wondered if SATs correlate with socio economic status rather than IQ, this Slate article covers some of the debate about standardized tests and points to meta studies. SATs do track IQ and predict college success, but social emotional skills, grit, and other factors also count. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

I am from Cologne (Köln), Germany and we use the same word "kölsch" for the people, the dialect, and the beer. It also works as a demonym. I am, speak, and like to drink "kölsch".

I am familiar with the Cantab Lounge, but not the Cantabridgian.

The percentage of eligible voters (not total population) who selected Trump is somewhere around 26/27%, but more importantly, in a democracy, not voting is also a decision one needs to take responsibility for.

Great long-form reporting about the case in German (minus gifs) > http://www.zeit.de/2017/24/cum-ex-steuerbetrug-steuererstatt...

I founded a non-profit that organizes learning circles for people to learn together. We used to focus on online circles, but found that we mainly reached people who were already fairly well educated. 18 months ago we switched to exclusively working with public libraries to host our learning circles, and we couldn't be happier with the results. We now see about 65% first time online learners, most are without a college degree, and even homeless people have joined. And working with the librarians has been awesome. Public libraries for the win!