I am quite surprised to realize that I knew next to nothing about bonobos until recently, while an absolute bonobo frenzy seems to have been going on for quite a while out there, stretching far beyond scientific curiosity.
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Constructive alignment
An interesting didactical short movie (20 min) by a team at the University of Aarhus, about teaching at the university level (link to the google video). The subject is built around the “constructive alignment” paradigm of John Biggs.
→ Read more Quote for week 5th- 11th of Aug ’07
Beware of great thinkers who advertise their conclusions without revealing their assumptions. I like economics because it insists on a higher standard.
Steven Landsburg, “The Armchair Economist”
→ Read more Publicity: Anna’s photo-trips around the world
Not bad so far, Anna :-). And I love Bresson as well…
Question: do we meet in Budapest later this month? Although it is not so exotic as your other trips.
→ Read more Economists versus other social scientists versus other scientists versus others
The read of the day: enter the economist species, from the perpective of other scientists (put forward in the first part of the letter to Greg Mankiw linked here; the second part is self-praise from the viewpoint of one member of this species…).
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