Our video production students and a couple of our teachers tackle a very serious problem affecting seniors across the country and around the world.

Lots of network dead air at the beginning, but it's always nice to see something new from Bear!

In this profession, it’s critical to have a break-out area where you can think without the computer looking over your shoulder; where you can do your most valuable work without the siren song of an IDE. For the same reason that getting up and even walking to the bathroom can provide new perspective on a heretofore intractable problem, it’s in your own best professional interests to do as much of your work as possible before you handcuff yourself to your desk each day.

True story.

The money quote:

It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.

Here's an interesting tidbit for students, scholars, historians, and folks who like purty pictures: DukeMobile, an app ostensibly designed for students of Duke University, just added a collection of nearly 32,000 historical images, all of them specially formatted for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Great post by Karl where he basically argues with himself over the value of homework in math class. But my favorite part is this F. Scott Fitzgerald quote he opens with.

If you make 10 arguments to the jury, no matter how good each argument is, by the time they get back to the jury room, they’ll remember nothing. If you say 10 things, you say nothing. Well, your colleagues are your jury. I know it hurts to cut but if your main points are going to shine through, you’ve got to be ruthless.

It's been a while since I dug into the effective presentation meme that was so popular a couple years ago, but these three points from FastCompany are worthy of noting the next time you present to colleagues or clients.