Spring 2012 – email Doug@DrDougGreen.Com for more archives.

5/6 MIT & Khan Academy Team Up to Develop Science Videos for Kids. Includes The Physics of Unicycling. @rkiker

5/5 Humor/Music/Cool Stuff Seven Great Books THE NEW YORK TIMES PANNED – Read this the next time you feel rejected. @iEducator

5/5 Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen – By Jake Shimabukuro – This is amazing! @gcouros

5/4 Study Reveals Joggers Live 5 Years Longer. I think this applies to all forms of exercise. @wired

5/3 Jamming with iPads. This looks like lots of fun. @iEducator

5/2 Jamming with iPads. This looks like lots of fun. @iEducator

5/1 Hip-Hop education in action #TEDXNYED #HipHopEd Bringing student culture into the classroom. @chrisemdin

4/30 Don’t Stop Believing done by the movies. Very cool. @wired

4/29 Play with number 1: Sega Begins Sales of Urine-Powered ‘Toylet’ Video Game. Sorry ladies, it’s for urinals only. @wired

4/28 In China, pretty teacher ensures 100% attendance. @iEducator

4/27 English Teacher Humor @laineymic

4/26 Green building grows plants, fish, tea, and beer with no waste. Be sure to watch the short video and share with students. @DrDougGreen

4/25 Standardized Tests: nonsense on top of nonsense on nonsense @giuliaforsythe

4/25 Three new 3:00 Freakonomics videos – Does local food create less greenhouse gas? What impact does the president have? Is money hazardous to your health? @HuffingtonPost @freakonomics

4/24 Here is a short video by Daniel Pink’s 15-year-old daughter. It get’s very good at the 1:25 mark. Compare to student productions at your high school. @DanielPink

4/23 Top 10 Office Gadgets to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint – There could be some cool presents here. @BrettRelander

4/22 Teenage twins fooled 75,000 investors into paying for the services of a “stock-picking robot”, the SEC claims. @WSJ

4/22 Sex is a safe as golf. @wired

4/21 The Strengths of Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism – YouTube @DrPriceMitchell

4/20 AWESOME calculator? QAMA requires you to make a decent approximation before it shows you the answer. @lostinrecursion

4/19 AWESOME calculator? QAMA requires you to make a decent approximation before it shows you the answer. @lostinrecursion

4/18 Can you guess the richest, fattest nation on Earth? It’s Not the United States. @TheAtlantic @iEducator

4/17 Where and When Do Most People Lose Their Phones? INFOGRAPHIC @rkiker

4/16 Court rules in favor of breast feeding test taker. Duh. Tests are dumb, test givers are dumber. @DrDougGreen

4/16 Autistic kid surfing. Some moves you see here he invented. He probably wouldn’t be as creative were it not for his disability. He is featured in best seller Imagine: How Creativity Works By Jonah Lehrer

4/15 Nerd Entertainment Gun size matters. Violent but funny – @DrDougGreen

4/15 Ten Lessons Everybody Learned From The Hunger Games This is funny and thoughtful. Great discussion material for students – Psychology Today@Montberte

4/14 Why teachers drink Many funny answers to test questions – @iEducator

4/13 Why you should never walk & text – Man texting almost walks into bear. 1-minute video @Rich186 @mikeherrity

4/12 Rolling Stone’s Rice Krispies ad It was canceled when crack started to become popular. @DrDougGreen

4/11 Rolling Stone’s Rice Krispies ad It was canceled when crack started to become popular. @DrDougGreen

4/10 Did you know that when you enter crazy letters for Captcha security you help to make a digital book? Soon you can also help translate the Internet. See this very cool TED Talk @rkiker

4/9 Google Glasses: The Parodies – Three short funny videos – @ThePoke @iEducator

4/9 California student developes cancer cure An example of what students can do if they follow their passion – @snbeach

4/8 Breakdancing Meets Soccer in ‘Street Style’ Cool video showing kids doing creative dance with soccer balls @wired

4/7 Breakdancing Meets Soccer in ‘Street Style’ Cool video showing kids doing creative dance with soccer balls @wired

4/6 Make Your Photographs Move with This Easy iPhone App @scoopit @llotimo

4/5 Google maps now lets your tour the White House. Great field trip for students who can afford to go – @oveucsj

4/4 The History of English in Ten Minutes Ten very cool one-minute animations. @iEducator

4/4 Amazing! —> Two year old boy rescued from a well thanks to the iPhone’s amazing camera. @newfirewithin

4/3 Little book of Hindu Deities. Super cute! @ValmontGod

4/2 Paddlers confront the abyss and wonder, what if. Cool Photo @DrDougGreen

4/1 BBC News – How to make a movie on a smartphone @oveuscj @scoopit

4/1 April Fools Joke Google’s April Fools joke: Nintendo-style 8-bit Google Map iEducator

3/31 Thieves butt-dial 911 and end up getting arrested. @DrDougGreen

3/30 Take a Virtual Tour of the Swiss Alps @Montberte @kevcreutz

3/29 Kentucky and Louisville fans fight over the game at a dialysis clinic. @DrDougGreen

3/28 Easter Egg Hunt Canceled Due To Aggressive Parents @bhsprincipal

3/28 Bach on the mandolin by Chris Thile Very Cool – @NYTimes

3/27 Stop motion animations from year three UK students. They would love to have your comments and feedback. @tombarrett

3/27 Don’t judge a book by its cover. From Britain’s got talent. There is a lesson here for students. @BrianTomkins

3/26 Study: Cancer fighting game works in real life @Chris_Brannigan

3/25 Can You Really Sequence DNA With a USB Thumb Drive? In the old days you needed Steve Jobs money to get your DNA sequenced. @wired

3/25 The New iPad Is Magical, When Given To Two Magicians Featuring a 3:24 video of a magic act that uses seven iPads. @llotimo

3/24 The Technology Behind ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ This looks like a very cool movie. @BretRelander

3/23 Downhill racing on ice skates with photos and video – crazy @wired

3/23 Don’t Fear Failure – Student develops gadget to measure hemoglobin to prevent death by anemia. First 33 tries didn’t work. Share with students. (6 min) Also watch 2nd video on famous failures. @snbeach @karlfisch

3/22 Angry Birds Space Lands At Last @BrettRelander Only $0.99 for your smart phone. Be sure to watch two-minute video.

3/22 How Tragedy Bred an Award-Winning Student Scientist @jpgreenwood @GOOD

3/21 How Corrupt is Your State Government? Cool interactive map @21stprincipal

3/21 This is #awesome: 30 inspirational Dr. Seuss Quotes These would be cool on your school’s wall. @gcouros

3/20 Sweden introduced cash in 1661 and now is almost cashless. @ArtJonak @Donontheriver

3/19 Tim Burton and Johnny Depp do Barnabus Collins @captain_ned

3/18 You might not want to give grandpa an iPad. 30 second video in German. Very funny! Don’t worry, you don’t need to understand German to get the humor. @DrDougGreen

3/17 This week’s Doonesbury strip deals with ultra sound/abortion law in Texas. It was too controversial for many papers to print. Warning: Humor is a bit dark and bias is on the left. I try to be apolitical, but I offer this so my readers can be aware of this controversy. @DrDougGreen

3/16 Today’s #TED: When is an iPod worth $8 billion? Rob Reid does the Copyright Math Great fun with math in 5:11 @tedtalks

3/15 3D printer with nano-precision sets world record @BrettRelander

3/14 There really is a course on fighting Zombies at Michigan State @snbeach

3/13 To be globally competitive, we should all begin to use chopsticks. Add this blog to your A-List. Also check my summary of his book Catching Up or Leading the Way @YongZhaoUO

3/12 Man in France sues Google after being caught peeing in is driveway by Google Street View camera. @NPR

3/11 Four Video Explanations of Daylight Saving Time The first two are the best. Makes the idea seem silly. @kevcreutz @rmbyrne

3/10 Link to pub cruiser home site It’s a pub on wheels. News bit on the pub cruiser Very cool. @coachk

3/9 Nine Muses – Koreans are getting good at entertainment. Read about this group and others in the NY Times @NYTimes

3/8 iPad beer app – Finally a reason you must have an iPad Thanks to Morgan Johansson my Swedish cousin

3/8 Here’s very cool and funny short video that exposes some of our stereotypes about job seekers. @rkiker

3/7 ‘Cheetah’ sets land speed record for legged robots Guess how fast before you click. @BretRelander

3/6 Three 30-second animation ads for bus company touting the virtues of working together- Bet you can’t watch just one – Jan Rumin Slack
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Penguins
Crabs

3/5 Cool animation showing scale from very small to very large. This will blow your mind – Tom Chorlton @ValmontGod

3/4 In 1957, The Diamonds had a hit with “Little Darlin”. 47 years later, they were requested to perform at Atlantic City. This link leads to both performances. The lead singer is Tom Hanks father. @donontheriver

3/3 Liberal New York Times sees The Lorax as just another abomination from Dr. Seuss’ estate. @NYTimes

3/2 How the Grinch Stole Education! (And Lost it Back!!) @MrMatthewRay @Blog4Edu

3/2 New York Post reviews (slams) the Lorax using Seussian very. @NYPost

3/1 Davy Jones 1945-2012 Daydream Believer video from the original show Fast forward 44 years Monkeys reunion 2011@DrDougGreen

2/29 NY Times give 8 scholarships to resilient students, 7 of whom are immigrants. Looks like committee has an immigrant bias. (Doug: Aren’t there any more resilient kids in New York City who were born there?) @NYTimes

2/28 Yr Ods – a group from Wales sing Dadansoddi in Welsh. @ValmontGod

2/27 OK Go – Needing/Getting – Official Video – This is amazing. @ValmontGod

2/25 There is a surprising amount of Ben Franklin gangsta inspired imagery out there. @twoodwar

2/24 For cat & dog lovers alike! Cat gives dog massage. This made me laugh! @ShellTerrell @Larryferlazzo

2/23 Weight loss advice: Eat dessert w/ breakfast. (No, really.) @DanielPink @NYTimes

2/22 How to predict a student’s SAT score: Look at the parents’ tax return. @DanielPink

2/22 A Stop Motion animation about cranky clerks and customers in a coffee shop – Tom Chorlton @ValmontGod

2/21 Infographic: Return of the Jedi, Retold In Icons @FastCompany

2/20 Infographic: Return of the Jedi, Retold In Icons @FastCompany

2/19 Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization – 4:00 video must watch @npr

2/18 Chart: In Four Years, Apple Sold More iPhones Than All Macs Ever @BrettRelander

2/18 Dirt-Cheap iPhone Trick Captures Great Ape Close-Ups @wired

2/17 Pennsylvania town overrun by crows. One minutes news story – Warning: Lots of guano. @twoodwar

2/16 New smartphone app in Boston automatically tells the city when you drive over potholes @FastCompany

2/15 Doctor Who and Star Trek Meet in Comics Crossover. @wired

2/14 Jean Dujardin’s Villain Auditions – Very funny @ValmontGod

2/13Comedian Chris Bliss explores the sociology and neuroscience of humor, the alchemy of laughter, and why honesty and integrity are at the heart of good comedy, using a handful of Pretty Damn Good jokes. @DrPriceMitchell

2/12 Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) @ValmontGod

2/11 Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) @ValmontGod

2/10 Some surreal and fun digital animation by Shinji Inamoto. @wired

2/9 Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge. @missnoor28 @UNICEFmena

2/8 New comic: The Irony of Socrates @davidwees

2/7 Great short video featuring snow and ice you would rather avoid. @Donontheriver

2/6 Amazing! Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale. Try this the next time you have an audience. @tomwhitby

2/5 Key and Peele Two biracial guys who are very funny. @Imus

2/4 Amazing! Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale. Try this the next time you have an audience. @tomwhitby

2/3 If Shakespeare wrote the three little pigs. 8 minutes but worth it. Share with English teachers. @Donontheriver

2/2 Learn How to Save a Life with new CPR – Excellent Video – Share with staff and students. @DrPriceMitchell

2/1 Are These the 10 Funniest Super Bowl Commercials Ever? Use with students in business classes. @BrettRelander

 

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