On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),[3] published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.[4] Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species

He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors,[5] and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of Evolution resulted from a process that he called Natural Selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in Selective Breeding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin (author of On the Origin of Species) (more)

Enjoying Phil Jones recent pages PhilJones:WikiIsPayingOff (nature of Wiki) and PhilJones:WikiAsUltimateUserConfigurableApplication (Object Browser), PhilJones:TypeThreadedDiscussion (IBIS, Disputation Arena).

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Term used by Jerry Weinberg for coolin' the boss in an organization without Congruence, to avoid/delay Blame. (more)

Tom De Marco writes (pdf): My early Metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimates (1986), played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. (Software Engineering) In my reflective mood, I'm wondering, was its advice correct at the time, is it still relevant, and do I still believe that metrics are a must for any successful software development effort? My answers are no, no, and no... The book for me is a curious combination of generally true things written on every page but combined into an overall message that's wrong... Strict control is something that matters a lot on relatively useless Projects and much less on useful projects... To my mind, the question that's much more important than how to control a software project is, why on earth are we doing so many projects that deliver such marginal value?... For the past 40 years, for example, we've tortured ourselves over our inability to finish a software project on time and on budget (Project Failure). But as I hinted earlier, this never should have been the supreme goal. The more important goal is (Disruptive) transformation... (more)

HabitNu grows up at MATTER, wins CDC recognition for diabetes prevention (more)

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Thinking it would be fun to convert some EBook-s into websites to experiment with Book Server idea. (more)

Anil Dash recognizes that the typical push to increase the number of Computer Science majors misses the point. Our industry can grow in a very meaningful way by giving lots of young people at a high school level the knowledge they need to learn jQuery straight out of high school, or teaching maintenance on a MySQL database at a trade school without having to get a graduate degree in computer science... Someone has to run that intranet app at an insurance company, and somebody has to maintain the internal iOS app at a law firm, and those are solid, respectable jobs that are as key to our economy as a 22-year-old trying to pivot and iterate their way into an acqu-hire... We need web dev Vo-Tech. (more)

Douglas Rushkoff book saying we should all be Learning Programming. ISBN:1935928155 (more)

Instapaper is going independent (more)

How to Motivate Users to Complete a Difficult Task - Modus Create (more)

Applying Nudging strategies to higher education (more)

Azeem Azhar on Quantum computing (more)

Should Gen-Ed Come Later? New Book Argues For Cheaper And Faster Alternatives to College - EdSurge News (more)

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Waldorf education (also known as Steiner education) is a humanistic approach to pedagogy (Educating Kids) based on the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrating practical, artistic, and conceptual elements.[1] The approach emphasizes the role of the imagination in learning,[2][3][4][5]:69 developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component.[6][7] The educational philosophy's overarching goals are to provide young people the basis on which to develop into free, morally responsible[8][9] and integrated individuals,[2][10][11] and to help every child fulfill his or her unique destiny, the existence of which anthroposophy posits.[12][13] Schools and teachers are given considerable freedom to define curricula within collegial structures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education (more)

'Ebooks are stupid', says head of one of world's biggest publishers (more)