Category: Education
PEBBLES.
Interactive program that allows sick or suspended children a telepresence in the classroom by synching a robot at home with a robot in the classroom.
Post date: Monday, June 5th, 2006.
Parapsychology 101.
Indiana University to offer course in ghost hunting. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 16th, 2006.
Ur in.
Nebraska college is text messaging acceptance notices to new students.
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Novel idea.
California college bookstores offering students textbook rental service. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 5th, 2006.
Drosophila melanogangsters.
Harvard research program dubbed Fruit Fly Fight Club pits fruit flies fighting against one another, with video. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Old school.
52 year-old man makes college basketball team.
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
Ninth-grader.
Massachusetts high school bans the word ‘Freshmen’. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005.
Quitters.
Florida high school football team voluntarily forfeits the rest of season after being outscored 299-0 in the first six games. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
College try.
MIT students recreate Archimedes‘ Death Ray and successfully burn a hole in a ship. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
Astrobiology.
British university is offering a degree in searching for extraterrestrial life beyond Earth.
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Deductible broomstick.
Witches in Amsterdam get a tax break for the money they spend on training, magic potions.
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
Dry campus.
Siena College in New York bans the drinking of any kind of beverage in a container on campus. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005.
CSI Britney.
Britney Spears to quit her music and pursue career in forensic science.
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
M.S. Interactive Entertainment.
University of Central Florida starts video game graduate school program. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Bullet with butterfly wings.
Army develops coloring book to teach kids living living on military base the dangers of ammunition they may find.
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Burgers 101.
NYU to offer course about ‘hamburger appreciation‘.
Post date: Friday, September 2nd, 2005.
F-ing limit.
School in England allowing students to swear at teachers a maximum of five times per lesson.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Potty U.
The World Toilet Organization is opening the world’s first toilet college.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Come on.
Boy inventor given a grade of C for inventing a hamster-powered cell phone charger.
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Ticket Assassin.
California: Beat your speeding ticket(s) by mail with Ticket Assassin. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 24th, 2005.
Acrocanthosaurus.
Dinosaur footprints discovered in a college building wall.
Post date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005.
No shiznit?
Got a cursing problem? You might want to consider enrolling in the Cuss Control Academy to kick the f-ing habit. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005.
Poetic lysinse.
Pissed off artist reluctantly corrects her misspellings on murals she created for the Livermore public library in San Francisco. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2005.
Spartan achievement.
You can minor in video game design at Michigan State University.
Post date: Thursday, August 4th, 2005.
Party time. Excellent.
Air guitar to be subject of study for PhD.
Post date: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005.
Free beer!
Making the world open source, one beer at a time. (via)
Post date: Friday, July 29th, 2005.
Personal MBA.
You can simulate having studied for an MBA by reading these forty business books. (via)
Post date: Monday, July 25th, 2005.
George Carlin-ism.
You didn’t fail. You just deferred success.
Post date: Thursday, July 21st, 2005.
PTA vs. WWE.
“I would have been better off beating a kid, because those teachers always seem to keep their jobs.”
Post date: Friday, July 8th, 2005.
B.S.
Proof that there are trade associations for just about everything.
Post date: Wednesday, June 29th, 2005.
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