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Creative literacy must start young. It's not too late for Dinovember!

Dinovember: Creative literacy starts young “Uh-oh,” Refe Tuma heard his girls whisper. “Mom and Dad are not going to like this.” It's Dinovember, and his family's plastic dinosaurs have been getting into mischief all month. Every year, Tuma...

We scored the relative importance of Wikipedia articles. See the top 1000.

What are the most important articles in Wikipedia? Wikipedia has 4,362,397 articles in English. But how many of those are seriously encyclopedic, and what are the most important articles? We've been looking closely at Wikipedia for an upcoming app...

I have a PowerPoint Words matter. And so does presentation. Fifty years ago, this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech. But what if King eschewed wordiness, and instead de...

Changes over time, in photos and maps Images gain new meaning when given the context of location or change. Two sites, from NASA and HistoryPin do this to good effect -- such as showing the the dramatic melting of the Muir glacier in A...

NASA boldly redesigns web site for 2005 NASA redesigned their web site, with a magnificent failure of design by committee. It is a failure of content (eliminated the most interesting details about the science and engineering), a failure ...

Lessons to be learned from MOOCs, 2 years out Online courses with very large enrollments have rapidly matured in the last two years, led largely by experiments outside mainstream academia by Coursera, Udacity and edX. Ambitious educators, tech...

Cars, trikes, and more create Google Street View The Grand Canyon is yet another place that Google brings to your digital screens, from their Street View family of content. Google has been collecting street-level views of our world at a scale tha...