Archive for January, 2009

RSS Functionality Added

Monday, January 26th, 2009

It recently came to my attention that I didn’t have an RSS feed. Oops! Now I do. Click the link in the top right hand corner to subscribe.

Boarding the Train of Self Discovery – Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

The Full Nietzche Quote I used as inspiration for this post is attached at the bottom.
I find many of Nietzche’s thoughts hard to relate to due my unfamiliarity with the time period he is writing in, but I found this paragraph rich with enduring ideas.
Nietzsche’s basic argument here is that men are fearful and lazy. [...]

Changing Education: M.I.T. Takes Big Step in Right Direction

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Find the original article here.
M.I.T. has just undergone a large change in the way it teaches many of it’s technical classes. The lecture format has been dropped in favor of more active approaches to learning. I believe this is undeniably a good thing.
I think there are two key changes here that this shift addresses, [...]

What The World Needs Now…

Friday, January 9th, 2009

I believe what the world needs most is a large crop of motivated lifelong learners who are capable of seeing big problems in the world and solving them. I would like to see in the next year, these people go out and make their transformative ideas a reality. I would like to see these people [...]

Solar Lanterns

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

These pictures are from a school project that I was involved with last year. We made solar lanterns and gave them to villagers in Senegal and Ethiopia who didn’t have electricity.