Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com

• NY Times: With New Technologies, Do Blind People Lose More Than They Gain? – With text-to-speech and mp3s, many blind people no longer learn Braille. Does it matter?
• Cousin Marriage Conundrum – By fostering intense family loyalties and strong nepotistic urges, cousin marriage makes the development of civil society in Iraq more difficult.
• NY Times: Scientists Discover Origin of a Cancer in Tasmanian Devils – New findings suggest that the facial tumor disease afflicting Tasmanian devils can be traced to a single cell in a single animal. The cancer is now spreading like a parasite.
• Against Schedule Pressure – Even when all deadlines and schedule pressure is removed, teams set up their own deadlines, because of habit – and perhaps because it is easier to aim for a deadline than for perfect quality.
• YouTube – Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur – Harvard physics professor talks about the ineffectiveness of traditional lectures and presents an alternative method: peer instruction.