Reblogged from inothernews
So Iran’s Supreme Leader just got an Instagram account. With any luck, #iranstagram will start trending shortly.
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Welcome to Washington.
After taking my first fully online course this summer, this NYTimes article articulated my views better than I have been able to.
A truly memorable college class, even a large one, is a collaboration between teacher and students. It’s a one-time-only event. Learning at its best is a collective enterprise, something we’ve known since Socrates. You can get knowledge from an Internet course if you’re highly motivated to learn. But in real courses the students and teachers come together and create an immediate and vital community of learning. A real course creates intellectual joy, at least in some. I don’t think an Internet course ever will. Internet learning promises to make intellectual life more sterile and abstract than it already is — and also, for teachers and for students alike, far more lonely.
Mark Edmundson, NYTimes, 7/19/2012
Also on the list: Carrot cake
Ingredients
Wet
Icing (optional)
Soak the sultanas in the orange juice for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees celcius.
In a large bowl combine all the dry ingredients except for the walnuts.
Drain the sultanas from the orange juice, and add them into a medium sized bowl with the remainder of the wet ingredients. Combine the wet ingredients and add them to the bowl of of ingredients. Finally, fold in the walnuts.
Lightly grease a cake tin and line the bottom of it with baking paper. Pour the batter in, and if you intend to ice it smooth the top over.
Place in the oven and bake for 45 minutes.
After you’re happy with the skewer test remove the cake from the tin and allow it to cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes if you intend to ice it.
For the icing mix the cream cheese together with the maple until it’s smooth, then layer it over the top of the cake.
I love this cake! You can substitute the oatmeal and quinoa flakes for any form of flour you have on hand, or for more almond meal.
Ginger cookies - starting my list of things to cook once I’m back! Recipe from http://runningongreens.com
Ingredients
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Mix the flour, ginger, bicarb and salt in a large bowl.
In a smaller bowl mix the maple syrup, oil, molasses and lemon zest in a bowl.
Pour this wet mixture into the dry mixture and mix until combined. If you’re using natural ginger add it to the mixture now.
Line a baking tray, grab golf ball sized clumps of dough and push them on to the baking tray.
Place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
Once cooked allow to cool for at least 10 minutes or until they harden. Yum!
Reuters: Washington will become the first state in the US to allow its residents to register to vote through popular social media network Facebook.
The program will launch later this month, according to the secretary of state’s office.
“Online voter registration has existed in Washington since 2008, but the latest effort to increase voter participation is designed for users who already have a Facebook account.”
(via onthemedia)
