this was supremely delicious, and about $6 total to make.
08/31/2009
08/31/2009
anyone out there good with flash and want to help a sister out?
What I think will be a fairly straight-forward question?
08/31/2009
I love this vintage picture. Her dress in immaculate.
this is great. do you have a source for it?
08/30/2009
08/30/2009
I believe that Darwin would have enjoyed this video of a chimp being dazzled by a magician; it reveals much about our place in the natural universe. - Marginal Revolution: Darwin, Magic and Evolution
I’m not crazy about the concept of animals for performance, but it’s so weird/interesting how smart chimpanzees are.
08/30/2009
08/30/2009
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JONESBORO, Ga. — For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage.
But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she turned over all the decisions about which books to read to the students in her seventh- and eighth-grade English classes at Jonesboro Middle School in this south Atlanta suburb.
Among their choices: James Patterson‘s adrenaline-fueled “Maximum Ride” books, plenty of young-adult chick-lit novels and even the “Captain Underpants” series of comic-book-style novels.
But then there were students like Jennae Arnold, a soft-spoken eighth grader who picked challenging titles like “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines and “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, of which she wrote, partly in text-message speak: “I would have N3V3R thought of or about something like that on my own.”
The approach Ms. McNeill uses, in which students choose their own books, discuss them individually with their teacher and one another, and keep detailed journals about their reading, is part of a movement to revolutionize the way literature is taught in America’s schools. While there is no clear consensus among English teachers, variations on the approach, known as reading workshop, are catching on.
„The Future of Reading - ‘Reading Workshop’ Approach Lets Students Pick the Books - Series - NYTimes.com
08/30/2009
08/28/2009
Anyone need a room in Lincoln Square?
My friend Adam, who is so smart and well-schooled than a university in Michigan has hired him to be a professor, is heading up to the northern states very soon. He still needs someone to take over his portion of a lease in what I can testify is a pretty fantastic apartment in Lincoln Square proper. $600 a month for a big room in a huge apartment (huge kitchen, living room, dining room, YARD). One other guy lives in the other room. September rent potentially free with an October committment.
Reblog if desired or email me if you know someone interested.
