Tweet I’ve had a crash course in nuclear physics this week. took basic Physics in university, but my major was History, so I never really got into it. This interconnected world sure makes it easy to learn informally though. The Zircaloy casing is the second barrier to release that separates the radioactive fuel from the rest of the reactor. MORE >>

I posted earlier about my conversation with Matt , from that post: When WordPress.com was split off into the for-profit company, many were concerned it would quickly become clogged with ads, but Mullenweg and his partners have been extremely careful in how they've introduced marketing into the community. MORE >>

To make its products more appealing to larger enterprise customers, Google is introducing a Scheduled Release option to Google Apps, which will add a delay to new feature releases that allows time for administrators to use a test domain to explore changes, educate support staff and communicate new info to their users. MORE >>

Christine Irving has been approached by a group which aims to define Labour Market Intelligence Literacy, and identify ways to support and develop it. Christine has introduced them to the CILIP definition of information literacy, but they are seeking material which is more specifically related to their field. MORE >>

In the ‘getting it off my chest’ department: I gave a talk to a national society last week on the future of learning.  An off-hand comment on ‘homework’ got more interest than I expected.  My point was that there are limits to reactivation.  However, our brains saturate in their ability to associate new information.  design MORE >>