http://sptnk.org/ I recommend with cautions, found out about it in Newsweek.
It is an intriguing collection of interviews of influential people (including my friend from my teen years, Will Wright) speaking on a wide variety of topics, the interviews cut up into small (about 30 second to 90 second) bits. The bits are labeled according to a theme Sputnik Observatory sees and linked to a collection of others' snippets. You can then create 'pathways' that are themes between snippets that you see and want to share. I can imagine a useful student assignment to create a pathway to explore an idea relevant to your course. The caution is this: There is a surprising amount of pseudoscience promulgated there. Clive Backster's experiments and psychic's claims of extra senses used to support the apparent findings from neurology of many (21?) sensory pathways. So, I'm not sure I want to use it because I hate the idea that students might take those pseudoscience notions and give them undeserved credibility simply because they have mere resemblance to recent solid science. It would be like saying that phrenology was right all along simply because we've found a great deal of brain function is localized. Bah! Still, you'll enjoy a nice visit and maybe weave together something useful for the classrom. Paul C. Bernhardt Department of Psychology Frostburg State University Frostburg, Maryland --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
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