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Educator & forever a student. On education, tech, media, psychology & other serendipitious finds.


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Tag: pop culture

10 Brilliant Rube Goldberg Machines

http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/rube-goldberg-machines/

Posted on January 20, 2014Categories design thinking, education, techTags innovation, inventions, pop culture, rube goldberg machines

Newly coined words in 2013

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304020704579278490453018658

2013 saw the emergence of words such as “subtweet”, “twerk”, “selfie” and “doge” meme-related words such as “such,” “much,” “very” and “wow.

Posted on January 4, 2014Categories language & communicationTags communication, language, pop culture, words

The Period.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115726/period-our-simplest-punctuation-mark-has-become-sign-anger

Adding a period at the end of a text message makes one look pissed off.

Posted on November 26, 2013Categories language & communicationTags communication, pop culture
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