Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-29-2009

[andrewducker]

• Size zero girls are less attractive than normal sized ones
  Shocked! I'm shocked, I tells ya!
  (tags: diet size weight women)
• hashtag funnies - comics inspired by twitter #hashtags
  (tags: comic twitter funny)
• The map that changed the world
  The first map to have shown America, and one that revolutionsed the way the world was seen.
  (tags: history maps cartography geography usa map)
• Schwarzeneggerâ™s sends message to state Assembly: â˜Fuck you.â™
  In an acrostic, no less.
  (tags: funny politics schwarzenegger)
• Pain Of Torture Can Make Innocent Seem Guilty
  (tags: psychology science torture)
• An interesting teaching experience
  One that sounds really worthwhile - I'd love to see someone take this and do some research from it.
  (tags: teaching education learning psychology)
• 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists (no spoilers)
  Generic, that is, not actual plot twists.
  (tags: writing comics funny literature twists)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Talking of teaching methods (and following on from the whole question-answer theme in the article above), you might find The Socratic Method interesting too.

Re size zero

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

The survey didn't ask which ladies the men would prefer to be *seen* with.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Be interesting to know if those teaching techniques were good for anything more than helping the students do well on tests for the class the techniques were used in.

[andrewducker]

It does sound like he was getting them to actually understand what was going on - certainly well enough that they could explain it to others.