KG Math

The Building Blocks method sounds very similar to how I taught my kindergarteners math. I guess they knew what they were doing. Reading this article made me want to teach KG again.

Hello, Napoleon complex?

This. Is. SAD. Koreans are sad. This does not help me with my desire to embrace my culture more. No, not at all. Tallness is overrated.

Clowning Around In the Name of Research

Funny October article about cell phone distraction .

Man's Best Friend

Not a surprise, but hehehe: dogs are better friends than people.

(in the walking-buddy sense)

Barefoot Running

This article (more like a blog) - sort of related to this book - came out awhile ago and I meant to post it when I first read it... but I didn't. So I revisited it, and now I'm posting it.

I think the whole barefoot movement is really interesting, and I think I'll end up investing in a set of Vibram Five Fingers in the future - both for running and weight training/all other types of exercise.

Economics of Gift Giving

Nothing too ground breaking, but an interesting take on the economics of gift giving.

Reformat articles

Not really an article, but this is an awesome way to reformat webpages, especially news articles.

Hm, I guess I could link to the article that included the tool to better fit the posting rules of this blog.

Pentagon's Balloon Challenge

Cool....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01darpa.html?_r=1&hpw