Archive for October 21st, 2007
The College Experience
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University, asks 200 students their thoughts on a Vision of Students Today. The video is available on YouTube. Having attended Kansas State University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Idaho I can say that this video does a decent job of capturing the culture in […]
Huckabee is Mistaken
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Recent comments by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee via Krugman’s blog: “Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not […]
Nobel Theory, File Sharing and Social Networking
Sunday, October 21st, 2007TorrentFreak reports that researchers at Harvard are using mechanism design theory to create an improved BitTorent file-sharing client. BitTorent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that breaks files into little bits, which are then shared based on reciprocity with other users. For a succinct and clear explanation, check this link out. The current BitTorent protocol […]