Letters from the Zeitgeist
Seen Quizlet yet?
It’s the ultimate flashcard replacement. I’ve mentioned Quizlet before; it launched to the general public a couple weeks ago.
Andrew Sutherland, the one-man band behind Quizlet, says:
My mission for Quizlet is to make learning vocabulary not a chore. I know a lot of teachers assign vocabulary to students, but few students actually “absorb” words [...]
From Scott Rosenberg’s excellent new book, Dreaming in Code:
“Hello World� looks more forbidding in Java, one of the workhorse programming languages in today’s business world:
class HelloWorld {
public static void main (String args[]){
[...]
A man removes a bloodied schoolbook at a school gate in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, Iraq. (Full Story.)
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