TWIRP: the week in review post
July 2, 2009“Discover Unseen Life on Earth” at Microbeworld
With all the press that H1N1 has gotten, you might think that all microbes are harmful. In fact, the vast majority of microbes are not at all harmful, and many are downright helpful. At Microbeworld, you can discover the abundant positives of microbes.
Get some perspective on the galaxy with these videos
If you were already feeling like a tiny speck of dust in the universe, these YouTube videos will show you just how tiny we are in the grand scheme of the universe. Each video sizes up Earth against the larger planets in the solar system, and the sun, which in turn gets dwarfed by the hypergiant stars in our galaxy.
Is your coffee a 60 or 78? Malcolm Gladwell speaks on differentiated instruction (kinda)
In this talk, Gladwell tells the story of Howard Moskowitz, who revolutionized the food industry by figuring out what people actually wanted, as opposed to what they said they wanted. In doing so, Gladwell also inadvertently makes a great case for differentiated instruction.



