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Neuroscience Debunked!
Crossing that midline debunked! Growing those myelin sheaths does or doesn’t increase cognition! Talking to students in my class can be an exercise in neuroscience because we’re growing the connections in our brains every day. My students start the morning...
Activate
There are many different things we do during the week or month. Some are actively chosen, some are happenstance when we go with the flow, and some are habit. Something else happens when you are acted upon. What about when another person’s habit acts upon you,...
Happy, Happy 50th, Skylab
In my house, this is a holiday. We talk about 100 pound computers and the experiments that are hinted at, but only 80 of them listed. Talk about Pete Conrad’s favorite foods or Robert Crippen’s patch preference start. It was a beginning in our species...
Vonda Fantana
Did you ever watch Star Trek? Do you still? When I was 10, I wanted to be DC Fontana, or Vonda N. McIntyre. They were both seminal in creating new ways to examine the heavy, important issues we face in society but may not agree upon the issues in our own lives....
Karen Joy Fowler’s Booth
A Civil War historical fiction about Lincoln’s assassination told through a family saga lens, outlining the many Booth actors in the generation that made one brother infamous while resonating without naming the divides of our current political culture. Junius...
Montessori is a Social Justice Curriculum
With everything happening in the classroom and in the world, I’m reminded of the words of Maria Montessori: Averting war is the work of politicians; establishing peace is the work of education (Educaiton For Peace, p. 24). History starts from a couple standpoints in...
Cat Rambo, Helene Tursten
A search for cozy mysteries became a week of crime with retirees. TLDR: So funny! Read this serial killer novel. An octogenarian, hard of hearing and often stooped over, finally has the life she wanted. She lives in a large apartment rent-free, travels public...
Hello World
Over the 2020-2022 period when we sequestered ourselves, I lost track of my online presence. Those who could text me were my world, but now I’m realizing that the broader world was fun to interact with. Of course, we’re also losing Twitter, so I’ve...
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