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Episode 167 – Robotic Physics

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  Michael and Michael start this episode with big robots.  As in extra huge robots.  Like Mecha-sized robots.  The articulation of the robot Jeff Bezos piloted was reminiscent of the one that the character Eileen Ripley piloted in the Aliens movies (see video above).  Michael R was also reminded of the NASA Valkyrie robot, and it’s mission to go to Mars ahead of humans to set up the environment for human habitation.  Walking on two legs, and being roughly human-sized, the form factor is well suited to ensuring that the habitat structure such robots would build would be on the … Continue reading →

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Episode 142 – It’s Hot enough to char a Charzard

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Wow! Do we have a hot show for you this week! All three of our show hosts are together to scorch your ear holes! We begin with Linden Lab’s new hotness – Project Sansar, bounce on over to the hot new AR game Pokémon Go, look at hot technology with Blockchain, and we end the show with a review of some hot new start up and education incubators in Europe. Show Links The Rent is Too Damn High Party Linden Lab releases Project Sansar Pokémon Go is live! Pokémon Go Plus Project Ingress Politics and Blockchain BRexit and Blockchain Blockchain … Continue reading →

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Episode 130 – The Final Countdown

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They said it would never happen, but we got all three co-hosts together for this final episode of 2015. Phaedra, Michael M. and Michael R. get together to NOT talk about Star Wars: While we wanted to know all about the new Star Wars, but we know, you don’t want to know, until you know – you know? So we have a spoiler free show! While we are expanding our format to more tech topics, we have a blast talking about Lego’s serious Play, we look at the state of Computer Science education with the US Department of Education, and … Continue reading →

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Episode 53 – Mad (Wo)Men and MOOCs

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  Phaedra and Michael M talk about reaching people in different ways — through advertising, in game purchases, marketing, and education.  Establishing relationships between organizations and people, whether from a brand to a person, a game to a player, and an instructor to a student are all changing and scaling up. Phaedra and Michael discuss how that specifications for all courseware should be structured so that anything could be plugged into a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course).  Imagine what could be — mobile, social learning, in-course purchases, power ups, gamification, audio, video, and even more! We are just delighted to have had … Continue reading →

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