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27 May The new Education sets by LEGO® rock, and here’s why

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For the workshop I did in Bolzano, and I wanted to do something different, since I have way too many people and way too few assistants to do a proper workshop using LEGO Serious Play, so I grabbed some of the sets in the new...

29 Apr A New Vision for the Learning Crisis

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The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we've settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic's educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something...

13 Nov Notes from South Africa (3): Wine and Vineyards

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The South African wine industry ranks as the eighth largest wine producer in the world and the sixth largest exporter, contributing approximately 3.9% of the world’s wine production in 2023. It was also the main reason for our visit, as wine is my friend's line...

06 Nov Notes from South Africa (2): Nature and Wildlife

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Second post in the South African notes, following a bittersweet focus on its history (remember? 2.4 million people living in slums), and this time I promise it'll get less grim. Maybe. And it will have penguins. 2. Nature and Wildlife South Africa hosts one of the world's...

20 Sep 8+1 Games that Teach you Math

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Yesterday, we saw 12 video games that teach you how to code, but what if you're dealing with people who need a motivational boost with a foundational concept like math? Well, look no more. Here's a selection of 8+1 games that might do the trick. 1....

16 Jul Giovanni Riccioli and the [Black] Moon

Posted at 10:00h in history and archeology, science and math by shelidon 0 Comments

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Born in 1598, Giovanni Riccioli was a Jesuit Italian astronomer who liked to throw stuff down from towers (we can't say he experimented with gravity: in the Western world, we'll have to wait for Newton in 1684). Among his researches, he introduced the scheme for...

02 Nov Matt Parker – Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

Posted at 19:58h in books and literature, science and math by shelidon 1 Comment

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What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be...

11 May Leonard Mlodinow – Euclid’s Window

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Ogni lunedì un libro per iniziare la settimana. La settimana scorsa ho consigliato un libro di storia: questa settimana tocca a un libro di geometria. E, di nuovo, uno dei libri più esilaranti che io abbia letto negli ultimi anni. Leonard Mlodinow,Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry...

07 Jul Spatial, non spatial and numerical: our way towards computational thinking

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San Diego, 08.07.2019. Esri UC One of the main issues you hear about teaching BIM, especially to high school and university students that might still have some neuroplasticity about them, is how to get them to think computationally. The first things I learned, during my first day...

03 Sep My Little Grand Tour: Los Angeles

Posted at 00:00h in architecture, engineering and construction, art and fashion, books and literature, comics and illustration, folklore and legends, history and archeology, note to self, science and math by shelidon 2 Comments

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My stay in Los Angeles was brief but fantastic. I had the privilege of being showed around by a local guide (and what a guide!) so that's the good news. The bad news is that I don't take lots of pictures when I'm around with...