Drew's Blog

Last July in Danger Lurking in the Plastic Packaging of our Food? I wandered away from that article's title topic and took a light pok...

For many years now, Economics has been known as the " dismal science ". So, who better than a (Canadian) economist to deliver a ...

I stumbled across this article from a web site unfamiliar to me: http://www.care2.com/causes/if-plastic-bags-are-causing-infertility-in-pig...

Bill Gates is the well known founder of Microsoft. I'm not a fan of Bill nor of Microsoft. I am an advocate for "open source...

My Master's degree My MSE is from U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As I previously explained in a STEM post, I was there in a program spons...

There's an old warning that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Here's an article from the Sla...

Ken Robinson surely must earn a lot of air miles giving talks at TED conferences. Here's another one, from fairly recently. May 2013...

Another interesting TED talk on the future of education. The speaker is Seth Godin . The question is "What is school for?". h...

Here's another interesting TED talk. The speaker is Danny Hillis , the designer of the now defunct " Connection Machine ", a...

And now for something completely different.... Or is it? It's another TED talk by a teacher, but the topic is not STEM, not software,...

Frank Noschese is a high school teacher of Physics and Chemistry. This April, 2012 TEDx talk (about 15 minutes): What's the differen...

I have little notion of what distinguishes a TED conference from a TEDx conference, but today's find is a video from a TEDx conference. ...

Today continues my coverage of "education" as a topic. First, another TED talk: This one is by Salman Khan of Khan Academy , t...

Here's another TED talk on Education (from July, 2010). What I like about it is it's a completely different point of view than I...

TED Talks are short talks "Spreading ideas that matter". They cover a broad range of topics, but in general, they have excellent...