In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.
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World’s Rubik Cube Championship
Here, starts in 2 days in Budapest; Ernő Rubik will also be present this time. With quite complex competition rules… And fun statistics (e.g. youngest person to solve Rubik’s is 4 years old)
→ Read moreTo admire: Women through the ages
A treat for Saturday afternoon: creativity+ superlative art + modern technology=3 minute video overview of 500 years of female portraits in Western Art– with a most appropriate Bach’s ‘Sarabande”, interpreted by Yo-Yo Ma, in the background.
→ Read more The song of the day: “Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)”, by the Klein Four Group
Fantastic, simply fantastic! Maths, music (nod bad at all), fun and– the sine qua non— love, at work, together: I’ve just relived my entire college life :-). Never heard of the guys before, but they’ve surely got all my votes.
→ Read more 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.
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