Swans on Tea

How to give directions
According to Alycia Hund and colleagues at Illinois State University, there are two ways to give directions. One is using a so-called “route perspective”, as in the example above. This adopts a first-person spatial perspective and is characterised by references to turns and landmarks. The other is a so-called “survey perspective”, which [...]

Interesting question over at Incoherently Scattered Ponderings: How do you measure “quality” of education?
Part of it is the assumption that you get a better education at certain schools — the feedback loop of good schools having the ability to be selective in both the faculty and the students it accepts. And that’s probably [...]

There were a number of records set at Domino Day 2008.
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I thought the scene of the last 45 seconds or so, showing a field of dominos falling in parallel, was particularly interesting. The curve that defined the leading edge of [...]