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 | 9 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 Off on How to learn anything, according to Josh Kaufman

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 Off on The Architecture of Open Source Applications book