Category: teaching
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Strange New Worlds: Spock Amok
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to impress. “Spock Amok” has all the ingredients for an epic disaster, yet…
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More inanity from the author of “Ending Online Church”
This piece (7 Thoughtful Reader Responses on Ending Online Church, NY Times, 2022 Feb 6) reeks of the same dismissive (and unimaginative) hubris as the first. With obvious great reluctance, the author admits – halfway through and fleetingly – that whole swaths of people are necessarily and deliberately left out by in-person worship. It’s nice…
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Crossing timelines: Revisiting the Sixth Season of Doctor Who
Watching “A Good Man Goes to War” led me to re-watching “The Wedding of River Song“, and of course that led back to “The Impossible Astronaut” and the start of Season 6. So it’s out of order — so what? It’s a show about a time-traveling big blue police box. Watching it doesn’t have to…
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Math Education and Pandemic
{Editor’s note: Well, this ends up being quite the little snapshot of the early days of the pandemic, for me. I don’t know why I never quite finished it — probably it had something to do with the world igniting — but it’s OK as is, so I’m publishing it. Further years of teaching have…
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Looking for hive mind help on a course
Actually, on two courses. The school I’m at (Newark Academy) ends the year with a nine-day “June Term”, wherein students take one class for six hours a day. June Term classes are supposed to be experiential and rigorous, and maybe a bit weird. All teachers are supposed to suggest courses; I made three idea proposals and…
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Why I have trouble taking guns-rights advocates seriously
Five Injured In Accidental Gun Show Shootings On ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ From TPM.
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Another reason we’re in so much trouble.
For the first time in 23 years of polling. Source: The US military is the world’s strongest. Half of Americans think it’s not. – Vox