Miss Cellania
January 2nd, 2008
by Miss Cellania - January 2, 2008 - 1:05 AM

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The differences between a high acheiver, a gifted learner, and a creative thinker. This may explain why I never lived up to my teachers’ expectations.
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How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit. After the arab embargo of the 70s, Denmark decided it never wanted to depend on a foreign supply again, and they now export energy!
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Epicurus Was Right About Happiness (Mostly). Deconstructing the Greek philosopher’s four-step recipe for happiness.
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The cutest snowplow you’ve ever seen. Yuki-taro is equipped with cameras, GPS, and make bricks out of snow!
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How to build your own remote control hovercraft. Instant geek cred, after a few week’s work. Or just watch the video.
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How long will a paper airplane fly if you launch it from the 30th floor? Much longer than you might think!
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Comments (4)

  1. Go Denmark. Although the US is MUCH larger, if we could do SOMETHING along with scale, it would be incredible.

    posted by Beth on 1-2-2008 at 9:33 am

  2. So now I need to go back and tell all of my professors they weren’t catering to my creative thinking, and that’s why I always doodled in the margins of my paper and daydreamed about the twenty different unfinished art projects sitting on my floor.

    posted by Lauren on 1-2-2008 at 10:14 am

  3. Lauren, I would too, but I don’t think it would do any good.

    They’re all gifted learners or high achievers. They just don’t understand us.

    posted by Mike on 1-2-2008 at 12:26 pm

  4. Beware, the Yuki Taro link goes to a site which hosts an embedded trojan exploit, JS/Exploit-BO.gen to be exact.

    posted by steve on 1-2-2008 at 2:17 pm

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