- Lovely collection of anecdotes. Did you know WD40 originated as scientists tried to create a formular for Water Dispersal. They cracked it on the 40th attempt.
- Rob finds an NYT article arguing that "It’s 30 years late but Congress should now pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act which would ban industrial farms from using seven classes of antibiotics that are important to human health unless animals or herds are ill or pharmaceutical companies can prove the drugs’ use in livestock does not harm human health."
- Sheds some light on the rise of the dreary Farmville "If Farmville is laborious to play and aesthetically boring, why are so many people playing it? The answer is disarmingly simple: people are playing Farmville because people are playing Farmville."
- Longish NYT piece on the open education movement
Conversational leadership
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
