The next time you are in Germany, make sure to get yourself down to Bonn to check out the Calculator Museum. Or, you can just visit their website.
http://www.arithmeum.uni-bonn.de/en/home/
The museum is closed on Montags.
I’m not exactly sure what a Theutometer is, but it seems to be available in their giftshop, and I would gladly accept it as a holiday gift.
Visualisation Magazine, which seems to specialize in Data Representation and Information Graphics, is holding a homemade, handmade Infographic Contest.
The contest is apparently open to anyone, and the publishers are emphasizing handmade techniques. The winner will make the cover of the next volume of their magazine. I leafed through their volume on Circles (screenshot above) and there were some good looking infographics in there.
There is a flickr group set up for submissions, which you can check out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vismaghandmadecontest.
Here are my nominees for the 2010 Edublog Awards. (The Edublog Awards Homepage)
Best individual blog: James Stanton (http://www.jamestanton.com/)
Best teacher blog: James Stanton (http://www.jamestanton.com/)
Best Individual Tweeter: republicofmath (http://republicofmath.wordpress.com/)
Best resource sharing blog: NYT Learning Network (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/)
Best group blog: NYT Learning Network (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/)
Thanks to WolframAlpha, you can easily compute a wealth of nutritional information based on your Thanksgiving intake!
This hypothetical 1129-calorie dinner plate above is not intended to be an accurate representation of my typical Thanksgiving meal. Indeed, this is not even an accurate representation of my first serving at a typical Thanksgiving dinner. These hypothetical portions are meant to be used for educational purposes only.
Here’s a nice little math vocabulary quiz from www.sporcle.com entitled “Get an A”.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/puckett86/get_an_A
All the answers are mathematical terms that begin with the letter A, and there’s a nice mix of easy and hard questions.
I did pretty well, but not as well as last time. Apparently I need a student to give a presentation about the conjugate transposes of matrices.