RhetoricVille

There is good news for coffee drinkers. According to a recent story by Victoria Brett of the Associated Press, coffee drinking is on the rise among teenagers.
Naturally, this raises concerns about caffeine-addiction.
The story quotes caffeine-expert Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University:
[Caffeine] is not associated with life-threatening health risk, but […]

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Barack Obama has caused a political dust-up with a remark he made last week at a closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco. Speaking of working class Americans, he said: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade […]

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M. Daniels at Princeton has a online playable version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The computer opponent is programmed to play four different strategies. The human player can pick the strategy or let chance do it.  It’s a simple interactive introduction to a basic non zero-sum game.

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Apparently I qualify. You need to be 50+ and blog. This according to Ronni Bennett over at the Time Goes By blog. Well, I may as well own up to it. I passed 50 a few years ago. The year I turned 50, I helped organize a labor union. Since then, […]

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On Friday, I went to a small conference at UM-Flint on engaging students in on-line learning. The keynote speaker was Fred Goodman, a professor emeritus of Education from the Ann Arbor campus. He is a game maker, and his ideas for teaching revolve around games and the insights that playing — and especially designing […]

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