Archive for February, 2006

Discovery!! What has been left from newspaper!

Posted in edtech on February 23rd, 2006 by roman

On February 22nd, a local newspaper called Karjalainen published a special ‘theme’, called ‘Seniori-teema’, an inlaid sheet focused on senior citizens. One could find there articles covering about all-a-senior-needs-to-know, and a lot of advertiments.

Our internal press office have submitted several ideas to be included into the magazine, however, not all of them were accepted for publication. Our reporters found the leftovers in a Recycle Bin, and we now bring those to our readers!

Seniorclub ad

Original photo by (C) http://flickr.com/photos/grogg/

Two headlines from today’s newspapers

Posted in life on February 15th, 2006 by roman

Karjalainen: Mitali tuli, mutta väri oli väärä that could be translated to something like “We got a medal, but the (color) denomination was wrong!
In a Czech online news, I found this pearl: Hokejisté začínají pouť za olympijským zlatem. That means: “(Czech) Hockey-players start the journey to olympic gold

Shall we call these 1) total looses of sense and reality, 2) maximal optimism, 3) arrogance, 4) or something else?

we are dead serious!

Posted in edtech, life on February 9th, 2006 by roman

Yes, it’s been already for some time I felt that the air at the corridors of edtech starts to stink. Days go peacefully by, only peronen is working :) Common people, don’t you miss some fun? If only on Friday?! It feels we do this science so seriously. It actually makes me like I shall make balls out of somebody, it forces me!

I cannot bear that pressure anymore, so expect somethingawful, soon :).

Can present computer science inform philosophy?

Posted in edtech, life, research on February 3rd, 2006 by roman

Most of the great and fundamental scientific ideas and findings, such the theory of evolution, relativity, or genetics have greatly influenced and imho also enriched philosophy. Or changed our views on this world. Similarly ‘implicating’ ideas in computer science can perhaps be found too, e.g. the Church-Turing theorem or the Turing test. However, comparing to the recent findings from genetics research or space-research, these are relatively ancient. Or have I forgotten something? Or is it really so that computer science research has little to communicate to philosophy?