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

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

1/31 Florida school official says state standardized tests are unfair, worthless. Has masters degree and flunks the tests. Check links to test questions to see how you do. @cybraryman1

1/30 Comprehensive list of best apps for new and experienced iPhone users @llotimo

1/29 One Direction – New British boy band channels the Beatles @KyleMAnderson

1/27 Louis CK on technology: “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy” Funny 4-min video (with transcript) @SteveG_TLC

1/26 Homeless girl is semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. Samantha Garvey is an 18-year-old senior at Brentwood High School on Long Island. She and her family are newly homeless, living in a Suffolk County shelter

1/26 Short video on the Stuxnet virus that shut down Iran’s centrifuges (3:30) @Montberte

1/25 In case you missed it: “If I Die,” the Facebook app that posts a special message after you die. One minute video. Very cute. @wired

1/24 Robots are among us. Do you know where? Cool video @rkiker

1/23 Lego video made by home schoolers – Part of Lego’s ReBrick site where people post their Lego projects. Also read article in Wired @wired

1/22 The Joy of Books – This Video Will Make You Wonder Why You Own a Kindle @jaykubassek

1/21 Cool parody of Memory from Cats regarding what we forget. Very funny. @Donontheriver

1/20 School board vetoes cougar as mascot as it refers to middle age women seeking romance with younger men. Would the mascot be a cat or a middle aged female? @Imus

1/19 People in 156 countries singing “All You Need is Love” at the same time. Students need to see this. @jeffpulver

1/18 In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. Here they describe their extraordinary projects and their route to and passion for science.

1/18 India’s ‘Angry Brides’ game wages war on dowry @DanielPink

1/16 Death to Pennies, a not so love story – Great short video. Show to students and get opinions. @Montberte

1/15 HS student’s photos rejected from yearbook. I bet most male classmates would be happy to have it in their book. @WBTV_News

1/14 Jimmy Fallon does a David Bowie parody featuring Tim Tebow and Jesus. Funny or Blasphemous? You decide. @valmontgod

1/13 Vatican plagiarizes straight from Wikipedia for cardinals’ biographies. If Wikipedia is good enough for the Pope, should teachers allow students to cite it? @DrDougGreen
1/12 Snoop Dogg arested for weed found on his bus by a snooping dog. @Imus @NYTimes

1/11 Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop arrested in Wisconsin. Studies show people with odd names don’t do so well. @IMUS

1/10 Teenager sets rubic cube record at 5.88 seconds. Prepare to be amazed. (0:28) @NPR

1/9 Myanmar Girls push the limits of censors and parents. Very cool video. @DrDougGreen @NYTimes

1/8 65 iconic pictures of David Bowie in chronological order @malcolmbellamy

1/7 Meet the #SocialMedia Savvy Hipster that Terrifies Corporate America @TFMcGrath

1/6 Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake do the history of rap. I liked it and I’m not a big rap fan. @DrDougGreen

1/5 Watching erotic videos before game boost players’ performance @Imus @DNA

1/4 Six things teenagers invented. Be sure to catch #3 for which student got a B-

1/3 INCREDIBLE Video! One Year of Backpacking All Around the World In Just Five Minutes @DrPriceMitchell @BrainTrack @Larryferlaz

1/2 Woody Allen Moose Routine @NPR

12/31 Getting ready for New Years in Edinburgh Scotland – Two short videos. Don’t worry if you can’t read Swedish. Just watch. @Morrica

12/30 Excerpt from 60 Minutes segment on Long Island SAT cheating scandal. Test taker looking to change lives. Be sure to watch 1 min. video. @DrMerylAin

12/29 Walking starves off dementia as well as toning your behind @MiguelEscotet

12/28 Great cartoon on college majors Also Check Amazing tree picture @principalspage

12/27 Happy Holidays from the Internet. @principalspage

12/26 Choose Your Own Animated Singing Christmas Hedgehog – Very cool use of video @jaykubassek

12/24 John Taylor – Colorado Teacher is the World’s fastest guitarist, not Eddie Van Halen. @Wired

12/23 New guitar app for iPhone. Free, fun, and easy – Cool video. @PenguinSpark @BrettRelander

12/22 Flash mob at a mall doing cool Christmas music

12/21 Flash mob at a mall doing cool Christmas music

12/20 “Meet & Seat” from KLM Airlines lets you choose seatmates based on their social media profile. The short funny video is in Chinese but easy to understand. @Wired

12/19 Santa meets Jesus @Aaron_Eyler and Santa uses the iPhone 4s @DrDougGreen

12/18 Lap dances for toys – but they better be good toys, no yo-yos. @NYPost

12/17 Short video (1:41) from the sloth orphanage. Seriously cute! @DrakeBell @ValmontGod

12/17 Ronnie Dio and Black Sabbath doing God Bless Ye Merry Gentlemen. Have a merry metal Christmas. @Morrica

12/16 Six-year old girl plays Sweet Child of Mine on the guitar. Very cool. @Donontheriver

12/15 The dope on dopamine – 60 second video by high school student. Site has lots of others. Challenge your students to make one. @ShellTerrell

12/14 Try these 10th-grade quizzes created from Florida’s standardized test @bhsprincipal @valeriestrauss

12/13 Colleges rush to buy domains like KUgirls.xxx to block pornographers. Should I purchase DrDougGreen.XXX? @TFMcGrath

12/12 Less Stuff, More Happiness – Graham Hill’s TED talk on editing your life. 5:50 @jaykubassek

12/11 Great info graphic showing how correlation is not causation @Edudemic @twoodwar

12/10 The Economics of Chicken Feet – U.S. chicken companies are surviving by exporting feet to China. @freakonomics

12/9 New isn’t always better. Just listen to the story of these 7 brands. @FastCompany @YeBeWarned

12/8 If Mary and Joseph were on Facebook for the 1st Christmas. (3:59) Humorous yet respectful @tomwhitby

12/7 Death to Pennies! Ask for student opinion on this. @DanielPink

12/6 Slow motion video of hummingbirds, bats, and butterflies in flight. Try to spot humming bird doing a barrel role and bat caring baby. @Donontheriver

12/5 Humor/Music/Cool Stuff One minute video for a cool/funny real product. The Beardo @gcouros

12/5 The U.S. Postal Service waves rule banning someone from being on a stamp until dead five years. Have students write rational for who they would put on a stamp. @Montberte

12/4 If we let women drive there will be no more virgin brides. And I though it was parking that put the virgin at risk. @DrDougGreen

12/3 20 cool TED talks to share w/students. Let each pick one and summarize for the class. @rkiker

12/2 Coach’s wife changes grades for 41 players. How secure is your system? @Imus

12/1 Talking to your iPhone 4s in France – Robin Williams. (1:05) @BrettRelander

 

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