I’ve been meaning to get hold of "Batman Gotham Knight" for a while now. It’s a collection of Batman short stories animated and interpreted by different anime creators, similar to the "The Animatrix".
Henry Jenkins has some thoughts on whether it qualifies as true transmedia storytelling over at Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Many Lives of The Batman (Revisited): Multiplicity, Anime, and Manga
I wish my friends and I had had one of these when we biked everywhere as undergrads.
LightLane’s Lasers Make an Instant Bike Lane | Autopia from Wired.com
Paul’s put some really interesting posts up over on his blog. Check them out:
Game Based Learning .:: alpha version ::. – Public Pedagogy through Video Games: by James Paul Gee and Elizabeth Hayes (Design, Resources & Affinity Spaces) is a really interesting article on how informal learning (and critical thinking within that) might function to enhance education.
Hat tip to Derek.
Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? over at Wired talks about different responses to creations that become more human like. Similar perhaps to the “Flesh Fair” in Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence?
Science Magazine have started a new blog called “Origins” as part of their response to the 200/150 year Darwin anniversaries. You can read the introduction at Welcome to the Origins Blog – Origins.
Similarly, Nature has come out with their ‘Evolution Gems’ resource here (PDF). (Announcement: Evolutionary gems : Article : Nature)
And over here at BBC Focus there’s also a 12 page special on Darwin 200.