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...Hannibal Lecter, last of his line," Harris repeatedly calls him in the book. But this book is unlikely to be the last in its line. For one thing, it ends nearly 20 years before Will Graham captured Hannibal (in 1975, according to the 3,500-word biography on Wikipedia). According to the FBI dossier on Hannibal in Red Dragon, he committed nine murders - that we know of - and who knows how many drive-by nibblings...
...solution: draw on the Wikipedia model to create a collection of online courses that can be updated, improved, vetted and built upon by innovative teachers, who, he notes, "are always developing new materials and methods of instruction because they aren't happy with what they have." And who better to create such a site than McNealy, whose company has led the way in designing open-source computer software? He quickly raised some money, created a nonprofit and--voilŕ!--Curriki.org made its debut January 2006, and has been growing fast. Some 450 courses are in the works, and about...
Best Wørd: “Wikiality,” Episode 128, July 31, 2006 Leave it to Colbert to cause havoc for Wikipedia and give African elephant researchers a headache...
...factoid is true. For instance…Africa has more elephants today than it did ten years ago,” proclaimed Colbert. Never mind that the statement is patently false—it became “fact” on the African elephants” article on Wikipedia following the broadcast, and vandals and moderators battled it out until the article was temporarily locked...
...methods are harder to teach and learn than facts. Facts become easier to absorb by one’s self once one has a handle on methods. Harvard students can learn facts about the United Nations Security Council or the Federal Reserve Board from the New York Times or Wikipedia, but they cannot learn the tools to make sense of these institutions so readily. As students learn to think rigorously about society and how to use data to test their thoughts, they acquire a set of tools that can then be used to acquire knowledge in any setting...