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Spill Happens: Education Reform & the Gulf of Mexico
what we want to happen and what actually happens are not always the same thing. Spill happens. Things don’t go to plan. Students are not necessarily going to become critical thinkers because we’ve standardized the curriculum, scripted the teachers, and tested the bananas out of them.
Preparing Students to Lead BP
Sample test question:
If your company opens an oil well a mile under water that spews crude, unchecked, into an ocean, do you …
A good idea, and one of the best ways to tell BP and the rest of the oil industry to kiss our bikes!
Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues to Gush from BP (via The Onion)
“In Deeper Water” Infographic from the good folks at Information is Beautiful.
Oil locations off the coast of Florida as of June 3, 2010.
Oil path forecast at 132 days by UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research).
High resolution satellite image of Gulf Oil Spill from NASA observatory.
Texture-Classifying Neural Network Algorithm (TCNNA) of Gulf oil spill from FSU Oceanographers.
How the Coffer Dams will (hopefully) contain the leaks.
