Sitting Is Bad for You: What Can You Do About It at Work?

“Recent studies suggest sitting for long periods of time is worse than you might think. Here are tips to help sedentary employees stay healthy.”

in http://www.inc.com/articles/0502/Action-Tips-for-Healthy-Employees.html

HTML5 and Accessibility

“Accessibility for people with disabilities is a legal responsibility in many countries. It’s also the right thing to do, and one of the characteristics distinguishing professional developers from the WWWs: WYSIWYG-wielding wannabes. But for many, accessibility has been a somewhat black art, requiring adding extra stuff to your code like alt text, table summaries, ARIA information that can be difficult to test by developers who are not assistive technology users themselves.”

in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/hh204741.aspx

Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code

“The insidious thing about depression is that it takes determination and energy to beat it, but like an emotional infection it targets all the energy and determination you have. In a twist of dark irony, depression seems to specifically weaken the tools you need to stand up to it – your relationships, your ambition, your sense of humor.”

in http://muddylemon.com/2011/05/depression-burn-out-and-writing-code/

George Carlin: The Modern Man in Three Minutes

in OpenCulture

Red Hot: The Computer Science Job Market

“In other words, across all fields of science, engineering, and the social sciences, more than 60 percent of all newly-created jobs, and more than 50 percent of all available jobs (both newly-created and vacancies), are in computing!”

in http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/05/17/red-hot-the-computer-science-job-market/

Is There a Special Formula For Successful STEM Schools?

“With all the attention to poor U.S. student achievement in math and science, the questions that Congress put to the National Science Foundation (NSF) 18 months ago tackles the problem from the opposite direction: What is the United States doing right in precollege science and math education? And what can the rest of the country learn from the schools that do it best?

This week an expert panel, convened by the National Academies’ National Research Council to answer those questions put to NSF, held a workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore “successful STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education in K-12 schools.” Although the panel’s report won’t be out for another month or so, the overriding message from workshop participants seemed clear—and perhaps not surprising: A successful science and math school is a successful school first, with skilled, knowledgeable teachers who address the needs of all students in a supportive, resource-rich environment. Anything that dilutes those ingredients—budget cuts, poor teacher preparation and professional development, a disregard for low-achieving students, to name three factors—will lower the chances of success. And none of the elements is enough to make a difference by itself.”

in http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/-is-there-a-special-formula-for-.html.

Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours

““Human, All Too Human” is a three-hour BBC series from 1999, about the lives and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The filmmakers focus heavily on politics and historical context — the Heidegger hour, for example, focuses almost exclusively on his troubling relationship with Nazism.”

in OpenCulture