The Dying Art of Penmanship
“That’s crazy,” said Kounts, looking at line after line of the perfectly slanted script in the Constitution. Washington state does not require cursive in school curriculums. Most teachers still teach...
View ArticleTower Court East 223
The N.Y. Times City Room blog takes a look at former college dorm rooms of the famous. This being the Times, the elite abodes at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard are examined, with campus maps for the...
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Top Chef Masters: the scientists
MIT LCS On a recent “Top Chef Masters” episode, each chef was assigned a scientific principle and a scientist for the Elimination Challenge. The scientists served as both consultants and sous chefs,...
View ArticleWomen Engineers in 1975
Bell Labs produced a film in 1975 to recruit women engineers. It begins and ends with college students’ impressions of whether women can be engineers. The majority of the film shows the home and work...
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Alma Mater Word Cloud
For no reason other than I had the random thought of doing it (which is why this weblog is called “Random”) here’s a word cloud comprised of the lyrics to every Ivy League university/college’s alma...
View ArticleGraduate School at the Museum
The N.Y. Times reports that several museums are adding graduate degree programs like the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. Only 4 or 5 students are year are...
View ArticleIt’s Daniel’s Neighborhood Now
They can’t bring back Mister Rogers but they are carrying on his Neighborhood of Make Believe in a new series. PBS has announced the animated series “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” which features the...
View ArticleCamp Blaze
I mentioned this four years ago and it’s worth a repeat. 24 girls, aged 16-19, are attending Camp Blaze this week in Bellevue, Washington. Started in 2001, the camp gives girls a taste of life as a...
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RIP Dennis Ritchie
Above is my copy of “K & R”. It’s actually my dad’s. In college we were first taught Pascal. When I found out nobody actually used Pascal in the real world, I used this to try to learn C one...
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RIP John McCarthy
I wish had an interesting John McCarthy story but mine is hum drum. I was at a talk at MIT circa 1990. It was most likely about software patents but I don’t recall the topic exactly. Someone a few...
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