Random links
- Perthshire village of Dull wants to forge ties with US town of Boring
- "The potential link between the two places was the brainchild of Perthshire resident Elizabeth Leighton, who passed through Boring while on a cycling holiday. Boring is to consider Dull's request to become a 'sister community'. If the plan goes ahead, a new road sign at Dull would highlight the partnership."
- Does International Child Sponsorship Work? Study Claims Answer
- "Examination of Compassion International programs in six nations finds 'statistically significant' impact—especially in Africa." - It's a University of San Francisco study (what appears to be a Catholic university).
- The Professors Who Make the MOOCs
- A survey of those who've taught massive online courses - "As far as awarding formal credit is concerned, most professors do not think their MOOCs are ready for prime time. Asked if students who succeed in their MOOCs deserve to get course credit from their home institutions, 72 percent said no."
- A Roomful of Yearning and Regret
- A women reflects regretfully on the affair she had and the affair her husband had: "I look at my parents and at how much simpler their lives are at the ages of 75, mostly because they haven’t marred the landscape with grand-scale deceit. They have this marriage of 50-some years behind them, and it is a monument to success. A few weeks or months of illicit passion could not hold a candle to it."