Korean War - HD-SN-99-03144

Korean War - HD-SN-99-03144
Originally uploaded by US Army Korea - IMCOM

This collection is really amazing. The US military has put up part of their collection of Korean War-related pictures. There is so much here to be amazed with: US homecomings, fighting shots, and plenty of Korean people and places.

This shot really got my attention because this girl really resembles my wife.

Seoul Eats: How to buy meat in Korea.

Seoul Eats: How to buy meat in Korea.

Have to add this to my favorites. I never know exactly what I'm getting when I go beyond the kalbi/bulgogi order at the butcher. Nice to have it described so well.

Brain Science Podcast

Brain Science Podcast

This is a fantastic podcast that will change the ways in which you think about many issues including: physiology, learning, cognition, language, and much more.

In addition to podcasts, there are discussions, transcripts (for some episodes), and blog postings. I can't say enough good about this podcast. It has really renewed my interested not only in brain science, but in getting back to my (applied)linguistics roots and refreshing, as well as building, my knowledge-base in that area.

The only negative is that you'll have to find about an hour when you doing nothing else. This is not the sort of material that you can multitask with (also discussed in one episode).

Korea Herald is a mal-site?

Imagine my surprise when I visited the Korean Herald recently and saw this message in Firefox.


I thought, "No. Must have gone to the wrong site." So, I went to Google and was welcomed with this message.

Notice the, "This site may harm your computer" message.

So, it's official. Not only does the Korea Herald have terrible reporting, thus harmful to readers' minds, but harmful for your computer too.

Really, I wonder what did this? Probably some of that ActiveX crap they are always trying to load.

Just in Case

I reserved this URL just in case I ever want to move from my own server to Blogger's. Not likely, but possible.
You can find Seoul Daddy at http://blog.danielcraig.com

Adams 50 skips grades, lets kids be pacesetters

I am one of those who believe that this is the future of education.  It won't be an easy transition and I have more than a little respect for the skeptic who says that it's like putting a new program on an old computer.  However, this is going to be a long movement from one-size-fits-all to more customized learning experiences.  

This is not to say that you can send (young) learners out to find their own way.  That has been tried and tried again with less than optimistic results.

This move will have significant push-back in the US, not when promoting young learners, but rather when retaining older learners.  The pressure for age-based promotion could ruin this approach.  When you taint performance-based promotion the whole system falls apart.

Obama Moves to Counter China in Space With Pentagon-NASA Link

This is no small move, though at this point it's all speculation.  One has to seen that this will lead to a much more closed organization with less collaboration than what currently occurs.  You may say that the Pentagon collaborates more than I would expect and that NASA less than I would think.  However, even the competitive nature of the arrangement signals this division.