Saving a website #tlah

Saving a website #tlah

Sometimes when you are researching for a project, you’ll come across web resources that you would like to save. Now, you can bookmark it, or use a bookmarking service, but there is still a chance that when you go back to the site it may be gone (and archive.org) may not have a copy. To…

Increasing reading literacy with cellphones

Increasing reading literacy with cellphones

Cellphones ignite a ‘reading revolution’ in poor countries The report, released today, examines the reading habits of nearly 5,000 mobile-phone users in seven countries — Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe — where the average illiteracy rate among children is 20 percent, and 34 percent among adults. (The US, by comparison, has an…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released 396,095 high resolution images to the public

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released 396,095 high resolution images to the public

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has uploaded high resolution images from their collection that can be used in non-commercial settings. I looked at the Picasso collection, which returned 515 pieces of his art. Some of it wasn’t in very high quality, but I did find this piece:

The more the US eats margarine, the lower the divorce rate in Maine

The more the US eats margarine, the lower the divorce rate in Maine

For a lot of research you’ll see the term “correlation does not imply causation“. Tyler Vigen has created a website called Spurious Correlations that shows correlations between data that are not normally related. Along with margarine consumption correlating with the divorce rate in Maine, the consumption of mozzarella cheese correlates with the number of civil…