Listle creates a daily news podcast for Android, iOS and web users
Source: Listle – Daily news and top stories turned into podcasts Listle is an Android, iOS, and web app that takes news articles from various services and adds human narration. The website talks about creating a podcast, but it’s not automatic. Once you have registered and signed in to the app (Email or Google accounts…
Let’s talk about Mac backups
I was browsing Reddit instead of working, and stumbled upon I just lost all my writing. Let’s add this as a warning for anyone using a newer Mac (since they started adding the T2 chip for security). iMac Pro Mac mini introduced in 2018 MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later MacBook Pro introduced in…
What doesn’t kill you DOES make you stronger!
Scientists at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management have established a causal relationship between failure and future success, proving German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s adage that “what does not kill me makes me stronger.” Source: Science demonstrates that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Researchers find that early-career failure promotes future professional success — ScienceDaily…
Create loops from songs and mix them with Unmixer
Source: Unmixer Unmixer is a web app that takes a song and chops it up into smaller loops. This loops can then be mixed by the user. It’s pretty fun, I could see music classrooms playing around with this and students performing their best mix. To get started, you give Unmixer a song to chop…
Number of times to optimally fail? Fifteen percent
To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what’s the right amount of failure? New research led by the University of Arizona proposes a mathematical answer to that question. Educators and educational scholars have long recognized that there is something of a “sweet spot” when it comes to learning. That is, we learn best…