Creativity and how its definition has changed to me
Michael Gallagher I have a few brainstorming sessions slated for today at work on directions for a project I am working on and it made me pause for a second on what…
June 2010
You put the Citrus aurantifolia in the Cocos nucifera and drink it all up (via )
I must admit I am learning quite a bit about plants, their uses, and their strange economies. I literally started this post solely on the merits of the song (hence…
Crowdsourced filters and African MLearning
This is perhaps the shortest TED talk on record. For those of you who follow African threads, you might already know Ushahidi. Basically, Ushahidi is a way to crowdsource crisis…
Summer of 2010: Princeton and Bright Eyes
The summer is a natural time to reflect on one’s life, to see all kinds of forwards and backwards, successes and failures and all that. I will be doing none…
Ulysses, The National Library of Ireland, and Medicinal Plants
Blogging on this personal level has been fairly light of late as most of my writing energy is directed towards work. On a side note, I find it is just…
Flip Cameras, GPI Community, and Plants New Wave (via JSTOR Plant Science )
We are experimenting a bit with having our community really be our community. We are giving these select partner institutions, institutions invested in the success of JPS as they have…
Plant Sciences, eLearning, and African development (via JSTOR Plant Science )
A colleague of mine, Rahim Rajan, captured this conference attendee from Botswana at the eLearning Africa 2010 Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. He is just so passionate about the transformative powers…