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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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Always check out a doctor before you place your trust. Here are the Medical Backgrounds of Dr. Brown, Dr. Scholl, Dr. Martens and Dr Pepper.
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
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
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
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