Tellio: Reflections of A Mid-Career Teacher: August 07, 2005

Saturday, August 13, 2005

New Scientist Breaking News - HIV breakthrough raises hopes for a cure

“Our findings suggest that eradication of established HIV infection may be achieved in a staged approach,” says Margolis. “This finding, though not definitive, suggests that new approaches will allow the cure of HIV in the future.”

Dare we raise our hopes for a cure? Damn straight we do! It says something about the state of AIDS affairs, that we begin to pin so much hope on the results of three patients, but…hope is the feathered thing.

Friday, August 12, 2005

Cellphone-based pollution sensor being developed at Berkeley - Engadget - www.engadget.com

A team at UC Berkeley is working on a platform to cram even more functionality into your cellphone, but this time instead of adding games, ringtones or other toys, the new functions will be planet-friendly tools like pollution and radiation detectors (hey, it is Berkeley, right?).

Cellphone+Ubiquity=Universality

Cellphone University anyone?

Innovation Weblog - Trends, resources, viewpoints from Chuck Frey at InnovationTools

The habit of innovation at an individual level (personal brilliance) is the differentiator... The American worker for example is more expensive than others so they must determine how to create that much more value."

I know I have a habit of short posts to links, but it doesn’t bother me because I tend to respond to same. I know I need some longer posts and some essays online as well. This will do for now because it is a good topic to discuss with students—reality and the world of creativity. This notion of “personal brilliance” really is a touchstone, or perhaps it might be better described as the steel that sparks off my flint. (Don’t you have a hard head, too?) OK, I know these are, as my son is so fond of saying, “lame sauce”, but SBI (so be it).