Last week, we looked at the difficulties of programming languages, and the Atlantic this month comes to us with news on the “hacker education” front with programs like Dev Bootcamp and Hacker School. The idea is simple – short project-based programs aimed at generating real world skills. Writer Joe
As an antidote to its pollution problems, Milan’s Stefano Boeri is constructing this vertical garden. Called Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest), the buildings when constructed will be home to more than 900 trees and 10,000 sq. meters of forest. Kinda reminds me of something…. -Jamin Warren [via Creat
Back from the weekend! Here’s the first shot of this week’s mainstream gaming news! – Microsoft says there will not be a new Xbox in 2012. – The Giants win the Super Bowl (according to Madden). – Nintendo Network is going to allow microtransactions, the cornerstone of business models like free-to-pl
Built by Theo Watson in just three hours for Art Hack Day this weekend, this is tongue-in-cheek prototype surely to misinterpreted by the MSM. -Jamin Warren
How often do any of us decide to make life-altering decisions that go completely opposite to our skills and talents? The NY Times has the story of y what cognitive psychologist Gary Marcus did in trying to learn the guitar. His new book “Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning show
Sarah Kay’s Ted Talk “How Many Lives Can You Live?” starts with a childhood question of potential identity. “When I was little I could not understand the concept that you could only live one life. And I don’t mean this metaphorically, I mean I literally thought that I was going to do everything ther
There’s a music app called Circle of Fun available for the iPad right now. Creator Troy Peterson wants to jazz it up (pun not intended) and is currently raising money on Kickstarter for the next sizeable update. Grammatika looks to have a lot of potential to teach students about music and let them s
Wired has compiled a bunch of conceptual drawings and prototypes of spacecrafts that, for one reason or another, sadly never became reality. My favorite is this beaut from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. which “was based on ideas from the rocket pioneer Werner Von Braun.” Sigh. I miss the S