CyberTracker

We humans are exceptionally good at dealing with visual, non-verbal information. CyberTracker takes advantage of these abilities by providing a way of recording game sightings in an intuitive, icon driven environment. It is being used by African bushmen (see also The Gods Must be Crazy) to record games sightings for research. Some of my own research builds on these same skills. I am developing a program to teach plant identification as a visual skill. Students in my lab are using a protoype of the program to learn plant anatomy.

For an engaging story on CyberTracker follow the link below to Living on Earth. You can read the story at the end of the link, or scroll up the page for the audio (mp3) version.

That fly still bugging you?

Eat it.

Meditate

A wonderful introduction to ZEN. Do not let that fly get to you.