Old spy movie reviewed....
smileydog
Hey Google groupies, I have to think our local bookstore for turning
me on to this classic 1973 spy movie, exploring issues of racial
integration in "the company".
Thumbs up, worth watching...
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/11/spook-who-sat-by-door-movie-review.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070726/
Also a pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw (recruiting commercial,
competing service)
Might show that at upcoming private party.
Kirby
Parked:
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From: kirby urner
Date: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: Martian Math on Wikieducator
To: Anna Roys
Hi Anna --
FYI, trying again to get through the filter here (another run at the
math-teach list).
Drexel, hmmmmmm....
Kirby
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From: kirby urner
Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Subject: Martian Math on Wikieducator
To: Math-teach Teach <math-...@mathforum.org>
"""
We might imagine a culture (Martians?) in which people said "five
triangled" and "five tetrahedroned" -- but maybe that have shorter
words for these shapes, as we do for square and cube (because we
say them so often).
"""
[ http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1484872&tstart=0 ]
We've got a Martian Math page for math teachers on-line, for those
wishing to teach something completely different for a change:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Martian_Math
Kirby Urner
PSF 09 (python.org)
board member, ISEPP (isepp.org)
Oregon Curriculum Network
sponsor: 4dsolutions.net
smileydog
newsgroups for getting the word out re Martian Math (something
American Dad likely knows about).
Kirby
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From: kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Subject: Fwd: Martian Math (link to blurb)
To: syne...@yahoogroups.com
Here I'm promoting Martian Math some more.
Note that the marketing shrink-wrap is somewhat coy around mentioning
Synergetics by name as there's no need to spook teachers worried about
any "fringe factor" beyond this being Martian (i.e. alien) material.
Nothing about radomes (as distinct from randomes -- though some
radomes were pretty random looking &&). Nothing directly tying
Martians to M.C. Escher or Arthur Loeb (at least two degrees of
separation).
Anyway, wiki-savvy teacher wanting to dig up some dirt will simply
follow the bread crumbs to my User page on WikiEducator and see
there're plenty of direct links into this philosophers' coven under my
Collaborations subpage.
It's not like I'm trying to keep Bucky a secret, just don't want to
occlude relevant content with the kind of "Bucky as Britney" stuff
we're seeing aftermarket, i.e. there's a tendency in this culture to
turn everything into tabloid "fast food for the mind" with a high BS
quotient (per Fast Food Nation **), very little reality-based
thinking.
I'm trying to avoid that, at least initially, an uphill battle I
realize.
Kirby
&& http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navy-Radome.jpg
** http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460792/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: kirby
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Subject: Martian Math (link to blurb)
To: kirby
Here's a blurb posted earlier today @ Math Forum (Drexel University):
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2006293&tstart=0
As you'll read in the blurb, this is about spicing up your
curriculum, for when you sense students are bored with
the standard fare.
Sometimes understanding of X is sharpened when not X (~X) is
used for contrast, and Martian Math, contrasted with Earthling Math,
might indeed be a source of "Eureka!" moments for some students.
Kirby Urner
4Dsolutions.net
Python Software Foundation (member)
Institute for Science, Engineering & Public Policy (board)
On Nov 13, 3:47 pm, smileydog <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
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