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Fans of Vimeo, this one is for you. In the same way that you’ve been able to embed YouTube videos on Vialogues, you can now embed Vimeo videos as well. Huzzah! Just go to Create > Use Vimeo and add the links to as many artsy animations and student projects as your heart desires.

Direct your props to Nara, who spent countless hours cooking up code and battling bugs to bring you this highly-anticipated feature. She done did good!

Despite the hours of testing we put into it, you may still discover some undetected wonkiness. Please don’t hesitate to report any bugs via our Feedback button, located at the bottom left corner of all Vialogues pages.

Happy Vimeo-on-Vialoguing! ….Vimeoguing!

That's a real lawn you're looking at! Cornell University's Olin Library installed the lush flooring in an effort to calm the nerves of stressed students during finals week. It appears to be a continuation of an exhibit that opened last year at their Mann Library.

Cornell has an acclaimed agriculture program so I have no doubt that they know what they're doing. Pretty clever, guys!

So, quick poll: If this were to be installed in [y]our library, would you be:
- Sitting in a chair
- Laying on the grass

...And would your shoes/socks be:
- On
- Off

Scooped from Reddit

Why do we have so much trouble locating things on maps??

In another blow to Americans' scientific street cred, researchers at the University of Michigan found that 43% of adults aged 37-40 could not correctly identify a picture of a galaxy as our own Milky Way.

...Could you?

Interestingly enough, the study found that "those in the know about the Milky Way were slightly less likely than the other participants to agree that "the size and complexity of the universe proves the greatness of God's creation" (45 percent versus 51 percent, respectively)."

For more on this space case, check out LiveScience.

One of my favorite education news sources has gotten a makeover and, I hate to be the one who says this, I thought it was beautiful the way it was.

With the new look, Good feels more like Pinterest (requesting that readers follow certain streams and people) and less like the news site I have grown to love. In fact, I don't even know who it is any more: it's a struggle for me to find relevant info on the site. Before, however, a simple browse would deliver a wealth of knowledge.

Here are today’s top stories on learning, selected by the NLT team:

1. The wired household: Are we raising our children to be tech addicts?
Full story from Mashable

2. A 17-year-old’s appeal for educators to teach entrepreneurship in school
Full story from Good Education

3. Despite what you may have heard about job scarcity, getting your Ph.D. in science is totally worth it.
Full story from Slate

4. Paul Ryan thinks the future of education in America is scary... do you agree?
Full story from Washington Post

5. Learning analytics: Interpreting educational data is the key to a learner’s success [Infographic]
Full story from Open Colleges

Here are today’s top stories on learning, selected by the NLT team:

1. Microscopic learning: Education can be totally addictive
Full story from Forbes

2. High tech backpacks for high tech students: Is this latest craze a result of the growing BYOD trend?
Full story from MSNBC

3. How to create a "better, faster, cheaper" law degree
Full story from Getting Smart

4. Why so serious: Can simulated workplace games improve employee performance?  
Full story from Phys.org

5. Recess resurrected: Why the oft underappreciated school time break is making a comeback
Full story from Slate
 

Here are today’s top stories on learning, selected by the NLT team:

1. Apps for the pre-school set: How soon should a digital education begin?
Full story from MSNBC

2. California's community colleges are running out of room
Full story from LA Times

3. They may not be the cheapest toys around, but they sure do make learning seem fun: The newest gen of Sifteo cubes gets a design upgrade
Full story from Wired

4. Khan academy reimagined from a Japanese perspective
Full story from Edweek

5. TIL that professors from USF have created courses for the University of Reddit, a learning platform from the popular social news site
Full story from Technapex

(I'm stepping in for Laura while she's away! Please, no throwing spitballs at the sub.)

Here are today’s top stories on learning, selected by the NLT team:

1.EdStartups 101: Can you really build an edtech company in 18 weeks?
Full story from EdSurge

2. In a nation bereft of educational milestones, mobile learning may be the answer to Africa’s growing dropout and illiteracy rates
Full story from BBC

3. Skillshare hybrid: A new model for K-12 education?
Full story from Getting Smart

4. A ringing endorsement for Clever suggests that mastering our data is the key to educational change.
Full story from Business Insider

5. UPenn offers its first business school class online. Will MOOCs replace MBAs?
Full story from Co.Exist (Fast Company)

Every two years, I am reminded of my complete athletic ineptitude when the Olympics rolls into town. No matter, I still love to watch and fervently root for Team USA, regardless of sport (except maybe dressage. Sorry, Rafalca.).

Even more than watching our current history makers, though, I love to relive the legendary moments that built heroes and, in some cases, villains.

I've started collecting some of these moments and am posting them to Vialogues (find them by searching "#Olympics"). The first is the controversial boxing bout between Roy Jones, Jr. and Park Si-Hun in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. If you don't know about it, be prepared to restrain yourself because it might make you want to punch your computer screen.

The second video features that beautiful moment when Kerri Strug was literally exalted as an inspiration and supreme competitor in the 1996 summer games in Atlanta.

What were some of your favorite moments in Olympics history? Respond with your vialogue in the comments!

Here are the vialogues of Roy Jones, Jr. and Kerri Strug: