Maggie Wolfe Riley (naturegeek)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I love nature, science, teaching, learning, and code. Of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, the Naturalist intelligence (#8), is my strength. The same part of my brain loves patterns in both natural and computer systems.

I am interested in geeky by nature,naturally geeky... Park Ranger/Outdoor/Environmental Educator for many years,now taking web design classes and loving all things web - I was born at the right time to see this amazing revolution in communications/learning/networking! Met my husband online,keep my bookmarks online,my library catalogs (http://www.librarything.com/catalog/NatureGeek,http://www.shelfari.com/naturegeek/shelf),my music (http://www.last.fm/user/naturegeek/),blogs (http://devinandmaggie.blogspot.com,http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profile/naturegeek) and probably more.... Books: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/NatureGeek,http://www.shelfari.com/naturegeek/shelf,http://my395.com/devinandmaggie/wishlists/librarything.html. My Heros are Tim Berners-Lee,John Muir.

Member since May 27, 2008, follows 7 people, 6 public groups, 1360 public bookmarks (1383 total).

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Michael Pollan: "Food Rules": A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis on 2010-01-05
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment on 2010-01-04
Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com on 2010-01-02
- But she also finds that if you are primed with sounds that are close to those you’re trying to remember
- The brain, as it traverses middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big picture.
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- - If kept in good shape, the brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner recognize patterns and, as a consequence, see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can.
  - “We need to know stuff. But we need to move beyond that and challenge our perception of the world. If you always hang around with those you agree with and read things that agree with what you already know, you’re not going to wrestle with your established brain connections.”
  - As adults we have all those brain pathways built up, and we need to look at our insights critically,” he says. “This is the best way for adults to learn. And if we do it, we can remain sharp.”
  - After all, I can Google a simple name.
Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications — Developer.com on 2010-01-01
Practical Guide to 404 Error Pages: What WordPress is Missing - Yoast - Tweaking Websites on 2010-01-01
50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials - Smashing Magazine on 2010-01-01
2009 in articles and blog entries | Richard Ingram | Shut the door on your way out Cicero… on 2009-12-31
Arianna Huffington: 2009: The Things I Want to Forget on 2009-12-29
Leaving the Right - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan on 2009-12-28
- there has to come a point at which a movement or party so abandons core principles or degenerates into such a rhetorical septic system that you have to take a stand. It seems to me that now is a critical time for more people whose principles lie broadly on the center-right to do so - against the conservative degeneracy in front of us.
- my attachment to the Anglo-American conservative political tradition, as I understand it, is real and deep and the result of sincere reflection on the world as I see it. And I want that tradition to survive because I believe it is a vital complement to liberalism in sustaining the genius and wonder of the modern West.
Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus | Information Is Beautiful on 2009-12-28

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A group for instructors and students at Cerro Coso to share links with each other; with a focus on web design, animation, and computer technologies.
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A place for members of www.Classroom20.com to share links, Classroom 2.0 is social networking site devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development.
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Where Cerro Coso students and faculty share links directly related to PHP content management systems and theming.
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Everything to do with the Open Source blogging software Wordpress. Templates, plugins, hacks, whatever you find suitable.