Category: Learning

Metabolism & Nutrition: learning objectives

Lectures Energy metabolism “Explain the Harris-Benedict principle.” Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on June 18, 2015, at 21:06 | 3 comments

Metabolism & Nutrition – Lecture 6: Proteins and amino acids

The fifth lecture in the RuG Metabolism & Nutrition course again was delivered by Janine Kruit, the topic being the metabolism of proteins and amino acids. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on April 05, 2015, at 13:04 | 1 comment

Learning to ‘hack’ with Security Override

In August 2011, probably while procrastinating learning for my university admission exams, with one mouldy foot still in my IT-past, I signed up for Security Override, an online game designed to turn network security n00bs such as myself into novices. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 14, 2015, at 16:03 | 1 comment

How to learn anything, according to Josh Kaufman

Judging by the following notes in my ~/jot directory, I was inspired two years ago (Oct 23, 2013) by a TEDx talk by Josh Kaufman on learning: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 14, 2015, at 16:03 | Comments closed

The Architecture of Open Source Applications book

This link to The Architecture of Open Source Applications book was gathering dust somewhere in my ~/jot directory. In true free software spirit, it is released under a Creative Commons licence and the individual chapters are readable online. Each chapter about the architecture of a particular open source software project is written by the (co-)author of that respective project. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 14, 2015, at 15:03 | Comments closed