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		<title>New ambigrams for a new blog!</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/11/01/new-ambigrams-for-a-new-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you think this is?

Take a guess&#8230; 
Well, it is the top half of a lake-reflection ambigram. What this means is that if you reflect what you see along a horizontal line at the bottom of the image, the picture you will then get will spell a word. Can you figure out what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing for anticipation, Teaching for anticipation</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/10/19/designing-for-anticipation-teaching-for-anticipation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a couple of previous posts I had talked about the idea of postdiction (see the posts here and here). The argument being that good teaching (among a long list of other good things) is postdictable, i.e. it walks the line between predictability and chaos, and most importantly makes sense post hoc. To make my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postdictable, the commercials</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/10/15/postdictable-the-commercials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had written earlier about the idea of &#8220;postdictable&#8221; which was defined as something that is &#8220;surprising initially, but then understandable with a bit of thought.&#8221; It lies at the spot between predictability and total chaos. The movie Sixth Sense is postdictable in the best sense of the world. Good teaching I believe needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego based Sudoku &amp; Rubik Cube solving robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two robots made entirely using Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail-kit that can solve Sudoku problems and the Rubik&#8217;s Cube! How totally cool is that. LEGO Mindstorms is a line of Lego sets combining programmable bricks with electric motors, sensors, Lego bricks, and Lego Technic pieces (such as gears, axles, and beams). See Wikipedia article on Lego [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/14/jugaad-educational-toys-from-trash-tpack-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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I had written earlier about the idea of Jugaad, the quintessential Indian idea of situational creativity. One of the masters at this is Arvind Gupta. Check out his website for tons of wonderful science toys and experiments that can be made from stuff we typically throw away. Very cool and a critical part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual proofs</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/08/03/visual-proofs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across these lovely visual mathematical proofs. 
For instance consider the following sequence:
1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + &#8230; = 1
and then see the following image on the blog!!
How cool is that!!!!
I had posted about something similar earlier (see visualizing mathematics). 
Note: Before someone gets technical on me, I should admit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo triplets</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/31/photo-triplets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Bowhuis (a student in our summer on-campus ]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity @ Plymouth, year 3</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/27/creativity-plymouth-year-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time last week with each of the ]]></description>
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		<title>Online physics-based games</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/12/online-physics-based-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physics Games &#8211; online physics-based games.
Some cool stuff here. For instance check out Demolition City
Online Physics Games
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		<title>Announcing: Short film competition, cool prize for winner!!</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/08/announcing-short-film-competition-cool-prize-for-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have been following this blog know, over the past few months I have made a few short videos with my kids. The ones I am most proud of are a set of three made around the words Explore, Create, Share (you can see them all here). There were great fun to [...]]]></description>
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