Thanks for the notice of this beautiful site, Chris!Descartes' Montaigne-era typeface briefly looked like "cogito, ergo fun." Need new glasses I suspect.
The site's type of associative linkage is currently available in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Deluxe Edition CD-ROM. You'll also find New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site has a world history time line subsection that's been growing similar content for over ten years.
My (admittedly limited) experience with kids reveals that they basically use the Web to plagiarize research on sites like Wikipedia. However, some sites can direct kids to better experiences:
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-mind-by-reading-the-classics/ http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/5-simple-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-intelligence/ http://lifehacker.com/tag/creativity/Ah the irony! Using the DisInternet to transfuse offline intellectual adventures into Generation Next.
E-cynic at large, Eric __________ SEE ALSO Is Stupid Making Us Google? http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google Is Google Making Us Stupid? http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google November 2007 The Autumn of the Multitaskers By Walter KirnNeuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy.
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