Category: Education/Learning

Is High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome Associated with High Functioning Brilliance?

Is High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome Associated with High Functioning Brilliance?

Many people known to be diagnosed in the spectrum of autism are brilliant scientists, anthropologists, physicists, mathematicians, and economists. Albert Einstein and Newton were both considered to be “consistent” in […]

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DisC Book Recommendation: The Element ~ How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

DisC Book Recommendation: The Element ~ How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

You may be familiar with the work of Sir Ken Robinson – he’s considered the world’s leading thinker on creativity & creative thinking.  He has worked around the world in […]

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You know what’s cool? Time Travel.

You know what’s cool? Time Travel.

Rockstar astrophysicist Dr. Jaymie Matthews breaks it down, Stargate Style.

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Engineering is Awesome: Robotics technology allows the blind to drive.

Engineering is Awesome: Robotics technology allows the blind to drive.

[Photo: Virginia Tech. Marc Riccobono operates The Blind Driver car]   Dennis Hong (Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering) and his team of engineering students at Virginia Tech create robots and robotic […]

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Stay Curious: BEST new idea TED-ED for distance learning

From the Smarty Pants creators of TED, comes TED-Ed the new, inspired education initiative aimed at capturing the lessons taught in a classroom and sharing those lessons worldwide. Their dream […]

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Happy Pi Day! BYU’s rap makes Mathletes cooler than athletes-WE LOVE THIS!

Happy Pi Day! BYU’s rap makes Mathletes cooler than athletes-WE LOVE THIS!

            Go Dittmer! Chorus goes like this: The BYU Mathletes are coming after ya When they walk by don’t do the wave do the parabola […]

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