Those who work on the front lines of education, at least when they come up for breath to reflect on what they are teaching, spend at least some time considering if a concrete or abstract approach to learning is the best pedagogical practice. While there are general guideline, such as learning should become more [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Apr15
The ethics of world destruction
For the past couple weeks, the story of the Imminent Destruction of the World has appeared in many forms
. For those who don’t know, an experimental apparatus, called the large hadron collider, will at some point begin operation. This device accelerates particles to huge extremely high speeds, high enough so that relativistic effects [...]
