BBC Earthflight – Amazing New Footage of Birds Flying

What You (Really) Need to Know

A PARADOX of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an educated man or woman. College campuses are seen as the source for the newest thinking and for the generation of new ideas, as society’s cutting edge…

…Nonetheless, it is interesting to speculate: Suppose the educational system is drastically altered to reflect the structure of society and what we now understand about how people learn. How will what universities teach be different? Here are some guesses and hopes.  Full NYT opinion article

Microsculptures by Willard Wigan

“Willard is a resident of Birmingham,  England.  He has a learning disability (Dyslexia), but has talented hands. He makes the sculptures out of dust particles, sugar crystals, etc.  [He] works only around midnight, and can only do some of the work between heartbeats.”  Story (at Snopes)