• One Christmas when I was a little bonehead in 1st or 2nd grade, I got a chemistry set.  It came in a triptych-like case that unfolded with rows [...]

  Adding time travel to a teacher’s bag of tricks

  April 29, 2013
• I would be remiss to not reference Lev Vygotsky, a long dead but genius dead Russian psychologist who has been one step and the better part of a [...]

  What would Vygotsky have thought of Play Station 4?

  April 11, 2013
• I am reading Gödel, Escher and Bach. Mostly because I have been intrigued by Gödel’s proof of incompleteness for a few years but have been [...]

  Gödel and intelligent machines. . . tangent here. . .

  May 24, 2012
• Returning again to the FoldIt game. Here’s the computational problem: finding the solution is really really hard. Okay, more precisely, there [...]

  FoldIt II: Human and machine heuristics, veering off the beaten path

  October 10, 2011

• Okay, I have to say from the outset, I haven’t actually played this game.  My doctoral thesis involved folding proteins.  Literally.  I’d [...]

  FoldIt (part I): From trauma to awe, an (ex-) graduate student’s perspective

  September 26, 2011