I LOVE MY DUCKS!!!



It's cheesy, but def school spirit.

Return of the Quack

Teachers STOP TEACHING!!!

Teachers really need to stop teaching and focus more on facilitating interaction. The acquisition of knowledge will follow without utilizing some "appropriate" pedagogy.

I couldn't agree more with Sugata Mitra. Here's is excellent presentation for TED.com.

Sugata Mitra speaks at TED

The Evolution of Religion



This is one of the most interesting lectures I've ever watched. Daniel Dennet, author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, lays out the argument for analyzing religion through the same lens as we would a ecosystem, organism, or cultural phenomenon, while integrating exceptional insights regarding language and biology.

Wild & Domesticated Religions

Viruses Split Water Water


The more I read about possible solutions for meeting our future energy needs in a sustainable manner the more often I hear about bacteria and viruses. It seems that they are ideally suited for breaking compounds and molecules down in energy efficient manners. Here's an article on the prospects for efficiently producing hydrogen fuel at a quarter of the energy input of current methods.

MIT Researchers Harness Viruses to Split Water

Favorite Movies


Here's a list of my top-42 favorite movies of all time in no particular order. The list does not include any documentaries, as of yet.
Half Nelson

Blue Valentine
Dancer in the Dark
Thumbsucker
Junebug
Wendy and Lucy
Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
The Bird Who Stops in the Air (Jeon Soo-il)
Not One Less (Chinese Yimou Zhang)
The Straight Story
Mulholland Dr.
Lost Highway
The Royal Tenenbaums
Bottle Rocket
Gummo
Life is Beautiful
The City of Lost Children
Amelie
O’ Brother, Where Art Thou
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
Miller’s Crossing

True Grit
The American
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
American Beauty
Lost in Translation
Babel
Bad Lieutenant (the original)
25th Hour
Precious
Midnight Cowboy
Paranoid Park
Zero Effect
Humboldt County

The Tree of Life
Moon
The Hurt Locker

Up in the Air
Up
Wall-E
Syriana
Felon (just for Val Kilmer’s performance)
Appaloosa

Eastern Promises
The Wrestler
Requiem for a Dream
Black and White

Margin Call
Napolean Dynamite
Knocked Up
Strange Brew

Favorite Groups


Here's a list of my favorite music groups.
my bloody valentine
slowdive
paik
loveliescrushing
cocteau twins
loch lomond
laura gibson
kaitlyn ni donovan
corrina repp
amy annelle (the places)
azure ray
the album leaf (tristeza)
the burning paris
amparo ochoa
belle & sebastian
bikini kill
hazel
donovan
helio sequence
invisible (antlerland)
bark psychosis (disco inferno)
auburn lull
atlas sound
landing
ulrich schnauss
seefeel
arovane
junior boys
bola
kiln (fibreforms)
the beatles
lush
massive attack
simon and garfunkel
sugarboom
swirlies
talkdemonic
the pixies
kitchens of distinction (KOD)
flying saucer attack
bowery electric
accelera deck
rothko
jayson k.
low
quigley
landing
hydroplane
mogwai
mahagony
christian kleine
the vertical smile
windy & carl
datura dream deferred
AFX
manufracture
hugo Amezquita
casino versus japan

Even though it looks like I'm angry at the fruit, I actually like fruit.