Information is NOT knowledge

One of the reasons this blog was started was to provide my students with a simple jump-off point to interesting stuff on the web.

However, just because you read something doesn’t mean that a) you understand it or b) you can use that information; it isn’t necessarily knowledge, just… stuff.

Along comes this post which aims to alleviate the first problem. It provides tips to help you recall more of what you read online.

Efficiency and effectiveness are essential habits to cultivate if you want to survive the web’s information tsunami!

Lucy in the sky

Aliens might be the first to legally download music by the Beatles.

While you can’t purchase the Fab Four’s music from iTunes or any other online store yet, NASA is beaming their tunes into space.

Using radar telescopes and scanning arrays usually reserved for listening to the skies or communicating with satellites, NASA will beam the Beatles song Across the Universe today, and invite others to do the same.

Anything listening at the other end – orbiting the target star Polaris – will have a long time to wait for the download: it is 431 light years away!