You can only live your life asleep or awake. There isn’t any in-between. You are mentally here, or you are mentally elsewhere. This is the reason changes oftentimes doesn’t happen. Source: Going Through Life Asleep – Drew Tolbert I love the thought experiment he proposes.
An illustrated, interactive guide to Dante’s Inferno Source: Infernal topography This is for all the students and teachers studying Dante’s Inferno. Each level is represented with graphics and information, and you can zoom in and around each level. There is a full list of characters and linkage to the actual poem on Wikipedia.
The presence of an endless stream of content on the internet is a double-edged sword. You’re never bored, but the online distractions can severely affect your productivity without you even realizing it. Therefore, here are some of the best Chrome extensions you should install for combating every kind of online distraction. You will just…
Scratch 3.0 is released today! Source: 3 Things To Know About Scratch 3.0 – The Scratch Team Blog – Medium Scratch 3.0 is scheduled to be released this afternoon! Scratch is an online programming development environment that uses multicolored blocks instead of code. The new version is tablet friendly, discarding Flash which makes Scratch usable on iPads for the first…
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Bust out some mad AI generated rhymes with BeatBot. Source: Itay Niv – BeatBot BeatBot is an experiment in music generation, using a stead beat in which you lay down your rhythms. Once you have a good beat going, BeatBot can automatically generate a rap. Don’t hold your breath on the quality of the rap, it’s usually hilarious gibberish.
Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died at 93 this week. She was most known as the designer of the first true word-processing computer. But she designed many other innovative computing systems and helmed Redactron Corporation, a company that helped transform offices by producing and distributing her word-processor device. Source: Computing pioneer Evelyn Berezin died this week—she should…
Create your own face emoji with Emojibuilder. Emoji Builder lets you build different face emojis. The site could be used by students to create an avatar for themselves or to create characters for a story or animation. Once created, the emojis download as a .png file. To create an emoji, you can select the various parts…