Who actually has access to the internet?

Here's an interesting recent report on internet access in the US.

On page 9, there's an executive summary listing the main findings of the report. But the graphs and tables further on are worth scrolling down to.

In short: findings show that internet access correlates with education levels, income levels, race and ethnicity, geography, rurality of location, and disability of potential internet users. No big surprises, but for those of you who live on the internet, a good reminder that much of the world does not.

If you are interested in world-wide statistics on internet access, look here.

Online lessons

Just came across this article on CNN.

The website for the organization.

Can't wait to check some of it out. Maybe I'll go back in time and actually 'beat' Chemistry... or Stats. hmm, is there Stats over there? /going to see/

I'm especially interested in watching some of the history lessons to see how well the format works for the humanities. I wonder if it's high school style history (i.e. 'facts', dates, etc.) or college-style history...

Might be fun to sling together a couple of lessons in random humanities fields. It would be a distraction from what I should be doing, but that hasn't stopped me from doing about a thousand other non-priority projects this month.

Learning to Lie

Neat article in NY magazine about how kids learn to lie. Interesting tidbit: the GW/cherry tree story works better for dissuading lying than the Peter and the Wolf story! huh.

A good read for all of you who are waiting to babies to get here. And just plain interesting for the rest of us.