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I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore
Deep Thoughts: While I was driving south down the I-35 today, in the “road zone”, I began to think about… [wait for it]…human beings. I began to think about how it was that a lower order of primates evolved to eventually have me sitting snug in a moving machine, barreling down a leg of this [...]
25 More Things I’ve Learned in Life So Far: Wisdumb For the Ages
by Karen Z. unless otherwise noted. 26. Always shake the ketchup bottle. 27. The following things should always be able to kick your ass: ginger, whiskey, love and coffee. If they’re not, they’re not strong enough. 28. Low-hanging fruit is for the lazy and cowardly. Within challenges, risks and uncertainties lay the best rewards. 29. [...]
25 Things I’ve Learned in Life So Far: Wisdumb For the Ages
by Karen Z. unless otherwise noted. 1. Always smile and say hello to those you pass on a hiking trail. You have something important in common. 2. Learn how to tell time by the sun’s location or a clock tower’s toll. Time is not on your wrist. 3. Always wear your eye glasses on a [...]
Wordful Wednesday
I am amazed by language… at our attempts to convey (or conceal) the machinery inside our skulls, the hums and gurgling, poking and prodding, the “Ma…Ma…Ma…/tugging at the shirt combination of the voice inside. And how this translates in speech, the loss and gain in this process, the words in silence, the words in the [...]
These Are A Few of My Favorite Things: The Radiolab Podcast
In my elementary, middle and high school education I excelled more in the language arts and humanities. I wrote my way out of atrocious grades, learning early that one writing assignment could compensate for a term’s worth of lacklusterness. As a tight-lipped introverted wallflower extraordinaire or, later, the queen of truancy, the voice I expressed [...]
Your infection, please
My online environmental health course functions as a journal article discussion group. And given the relationship between the health of the environment and our food system, I am always dropping V bombs. So as not to lose this all in the closed circuitry of Columbia’s ClassWeb, I’ll post them here too. The Morens (et. al.) [...]
Cinderella and Cinderella
When I was a tween watching Headbangers Ball, I internalized the possibility that long-haired metal guys could infiltrate my daily life and save me from the tedium, save me from, say, school, or an arguing father. It seemed completely rational to me that Twisted Sister might show up to help convince my folks to let [...]
(✴, ❝ and ➜) Some Reflections, Scribbles & Notes in the Spine
Literacy by David Barton © 2007, Blackwell Publishing Barton knows the literacy events of an adult’s life are nothing like the structures educators set for students in elementary school. We don’t grill each other with comprehension and detail recall when we discuss the books we’ve read. We speak of our constructed meaning, how we apply [...]
Just In Time For Valentine’s Day: The Anti-Love Drug
Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss By JOHN TIERNEY New York TimesPublished: January 12, 2009 In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — Dr. [...]
Belated World Vegan Day Post
Wok Man and I have been having some heated discussions about food ethics. The extent to which people disconnect themselves from their food choices, and the consequences of those food choices, disturbs us greatly. Food ignorance is wreaking havoc on our health, our ass size, the environment and the millions of sentient beings it enslaves [...]
Ostentatious Displays of Personal Aggrandisement
Off the well worn track of my daily life here in New York is a different city. A city that the tourists come to see. 46 million tourists just in 2007 (this and other interesting figures here). Among New York City’s countless attractions and world renowned cultural institutions is the Metropolitan Museum of Art: home [...]
(r)Evolution
It seems common sense to me that an educator would want to cultivate understanding and awareness within their student body and not withhold fundamental concepts of science. If, in fact, the purpose of schooling is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to maneuver through their lives successfully, then the more they can accrue [...]
