Evernote is amazingly helpful for writers. Use this guide to get you started on how to gather information, sources and data for a paper, draft and revise, and keep organized every step of the way.

Thanks, Google, for reminding us of the 161st birthday of Moby Dick.

It’s one of those books that everyone thinks they know but no one seems to have read. Be original. Go read it – it will confound your expectations. Give yourself about three months to read it, though. It is a quest unto itself.

Champions of “21st Century Skills” are locked in a battle with themselves. On the one hand, they want to be “progressive”. On the other hand, they are bound by the laws of economics and production. They are either hypocrites (that is, they say one thing and promptly do another), or they are schizophrenics (they have opposing beliefs in their minds simultaneously). I do not think that the educators I know who are proponents of “21st Century Skills” are hypocrites, because they seem very genuine about their beliefs. They must be schizophrenic.

I’ve wandered from secondary to higher education. Here are some initial observations.

This looks like the report card of just about any bright-ish student. What made him different?

This short post on the Freakonomics blog got me thinking more about copying, piracy and intellectual property. If you pay attention to the tech world recently, you’ll know that the future of technology innovation is being affected by patents. There are companies whose entire business, literally, is owning intellectual property and suing other [...]