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Source: Bongo Cat Have you had rock star dreams? Bongo Cat won’t get you there, but it’s still fun! The site doesn’t do much, it lets you select an instrument and play that instrument. Bongo Cat would be really good for a general music class, simple tools to create music. Or, if you don’t have…
University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day to become surgeons, mastered microsurgical suturing and…
It wasn’t Nineteen Eighty-Four that had the most to say about the America of the 1980s, but rather Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. “In Huxley’s vision,” Postman noted, “no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity, and history.” Instead: “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that…