0125WarmUp

Ever walk from Beachmont to City Hall? Pretty far-not.

Here are some of the great migrations that happen every day.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/14-of-the-greatest-animal-migrations/on-the-move

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dmac

0124WarmUp

Robot Invasion in Japan--its not a horror movie!

Check it out @:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/robot-invasion-welcomed-in-japan/?hp

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dmac

012011

What's your name mean?

Find out @ http://www.whatalovelyname.com/

Where is your name from?

http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/geography/usa-surnames-interactive

How popular is your name now?

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#

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dmac

0119Warmup

How would you like to use this the next time there is a snow storm?

http://www1.whdh.com/search?q=roboplow

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dmac

0118WarmUp

Want to discover some new music? Are you kidding?

Here's a cool app from Google that will help you listen to many new tunes (albeit in Hindi)

http://www.google.co.in/music

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dmac

0114WarmUp

What is art?

According to Wipedia:

"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art

But how about this? Is it art?

http://www.weirdworm.com/7-weirdest-paintings-passed-off-as-art/

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dmac

0111WarmUp

The world's largest consumer electronics show just happened in Las Vegas.

Check it out @ http://www.cesweb.org/news/rssNews.asp#4896

Here are some very cool and not so cool gadgets.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/coolest-lamest-accessories/

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dmac

0110WarmUp

How much is a college degree worth?

Take a look @ http://cashmoneylife.com/2010/08/25/how-much-is-a-college-degree-worth/

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dmac

0107WarmUp

To continue exploring the concept of using "microgroks" in class as the warmup...

Check this out:

http://scribe.googlelabs.com/

What is it? What does it do? How effective is it?

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dmac

0106WarmUp

Ever wish you could write a message in Urdu?

Now you can!

Check it out @:

http://www.google.com/transliterate/

Couple this with Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#autoes

Now you can communicate with the world!

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dmac

1204WarmUp

What's a cartogram?

Look it up @:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram

http://www.answers.com/topic/cartogram

Here's some interesting cartogram sites:

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/04/15/cartograms/

http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

http://rehydrate.org/resources/cartograms.htm

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0103WarmUp

Interesting article in yesterday's New York Times about computer "vision".

Read about it @

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/science/02see.html?_r=1&ref=technology

See how they do it at:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/science/20110102-vision-graphic.html

Some other articles about "smart" computers:

http://projects.nytimes.com/smarter-than-you-think/

Think you're smarter?

Try the trivia challenge:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/16/magazine/watson-trivia-game.html?ref=magazine

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dmac