An Invocation for Beginnings

Crowdtilt is changing the way we pool funds with friends. With the tilting feature, everyone becomes an advocate to make sure the total is reached!

The Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) is building technology that helps bring personalized educational materials and powerful tools directly to teachers’ fingertips so that they can easily find the resources, techniques and strategies that will help them meet individual students’ learning needs.

A couple weeks ago I was in Las Vegas. My friend Kristin, who lives in New York, texted me via picture message and asked how my vacation was going. The following is a transcript of our conversation as it happened.

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In fact, it’s probably a good idea to treat your bike like a stripper. Enjoy it but don’t get too attached, put a few bucks into it now and again, and just shrug and move on when it takes up with someone else.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

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If you want to read the definitive treatment, there is James Shapiro’s more recent “Contested Will,” although that book is nearly as absurd as its subject, because using a brain like Shapiro’s on the authorship question is like bringing an F-22 to an alley knife fight, and he kind of knows it. He ties his argument into the larger question of art and its relationship to the artist’s life, but even so the whole business is evidently a waste of his vast talent.

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition, by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, The MIT Press.
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This article is pretty clear, which is unlike many of the other articles i've read about reverting git merges.

Developed for the K-12 sector, Ed-Fi is an open, XML-based data standard that integrates information from a broad range of existing sources so it can be sifted, analyzed and put to use every day.

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative is a project co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to build a common metadata vocabulary for educational resources.

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Very approximately 100 billion people have lived. As of 2010-12-19 about 6.9 billion people live and 505,420 have biographies on English Wikipedia. That suggests about 1 in 14,000 living persons are 'notable'....That leaves a minimum of 1,000,000 once-living notables who we have no hope of identifying.

hold that note.

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They appeared thusly:

Disallow: /harming/humans

Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders

Disallow: /harm/to/self