The Princess Bride is even better with lightsabers
We’ve yet to work on swordfighting scenes for our Dinner and a Show performance, but wouldn’t it be neat if we could use lightsabers! Citing this post: Urbano, L., 2010. The Princess Bride is even...
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Reading levels?
One of Google’s new search options lets you assess sites based on reading levels. The purpose of this blog keeps evolving in my mind. It is a place for me to keep all the notes and pedagogic...
View ArticleSmall Worlds
Utterly amazing. Keith Loutit’s Small Worlds Project, uses time-lapse photographs, carefully adjusted focus, and color highlighting to create videos that look like a lot like claymation animations....
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What is “Natural”?
The Trans Alaska pipeline. The bend is due to the fact that it's sitting on a faultline. (Image via the USGS) Back in 1991, Jay Anderson wrote and interesting article (free pdf) on how exactly to go...
View ArticleHaiku by an economist
Economist Stephen T. Ziliak’s reflections on poetry are quite appropriate for the moment, since we’re doing both poetry and economics this cycle. Invisible hand; Mother of inflated hope, Mistress of...
View ArticleMulti-modal IRP’s
If I present information to you orally, you’ll probably only remember about 10% 72 hours after exposure, but if I add a picture, recall soars to 65%. –Alex Lundry (2009): Chart Wars: The Political...
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The Art of Specimen Preservation
Cover to the book New World Transparent Specimens by Iori Tomita. After the joy of playing around with microscopy and staining last fall, it’s no surprise that someone has taken the science of staining...
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Your Place in the World (by Birth)
From the BBC's "The world at seven billion". How many people were alive when you were born? How many people had lived before you were born? How many people were born while you were figuring this out?...
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1984 or A Brave New World
The future according to Orwell vs. Huxley. Image from world-shaker.tumblr.com. World-shaker tries to draw the modern parallels to 1984 and Brave New World in graphic form. Orwell’s (1948) distopian...
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Letting the Kids Design the Classroom
The inside of the Erika-Mann Elementary School. Photo by Jan Bitter. At the Erika-Mann Elementary School, they let the kids help design the learning environment. We need more of this I think. Citing...
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Wikipedia’s Green Skies
“If all historians save one say that the sky was green in 1888, our policies require that we write ‘Most historians write that the sky was green, but one says the sky was blue.’ … As individual...
View ArticleShould Liberals Homeschool?
Dana Goldstein posts a critique of liberal homeschooling (and, by inference, of private schooling as well). The crux of her argument is collective (for the greater good); having middle class kids (who...
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