Morning Linkage (May 5)

Transportation: More on the sad state of our rail sys­tem. (With a lit­tle swine flu pan­ic thrown in.) http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/flu-pandemic-could-put-send-us-freight-system-to-the-icu/ A cool fold­ing two-wheel trans­port. Summary here: http://www.core77.com/blog/events/mobility_concept_wins_buckminster_fuller_challenge_13365.asp More images here. http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2009 Stupid prod­uct — fun­ny videos. (A seg­way knock off for the under 8s.) http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/05/dareway-unsafe-at-any-speed/ Technology: A use­ful site list­ing alter­na­tives to var­i­ous soft­ware. Some of the alternatives … 

Morning Lnkage (May 4)

Science: Seattle is adopt­ing new math text books. Cliff Mass has some­thing to say about it. You should too. http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/05/seattles-big-math-decision.html A study of zebra finch­es brings up new ques­tions about how bird song is taught/learned. I nev­er feel com­fort­able with the broad con­clu­sions about the nature of cul­ture and cul­tur­al inher­i­tance that peo­ple want to draw from these …