October 2010
Tonight I miss everyone.
September 2010
Science is Hard →
Your dose of the Onion for today.
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“How much do you know about religion? And how do you compare with the average...”
– U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz
I got 14 out of 15 and it’s been a long time since I’ve been to any kind of religious service (that wasn’t a funeral or a wedding).
(via shorterexcerpts)
13/15. Stupid Catholic school education done me wrong.
(via struhdaehreh)
14/15. That’ll teach me to read the...
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Cherish Your Doubts
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the attendant of truth Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief. Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false. Let no one fear the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is a testing...
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World-Shaker: A Note on Waiting for Superman and... →
world-shaker:
I’m sure over the next few weeks there’s going to be some kerfluffle (yes, kerfluffle) about teacher’s unions and the perceived attacks on them from the film Waiting for Superman. To be clear, I view unions separately than individual teachers. Unions are an organization. It’s not possible for all…
I think this is a nice summary of my own attitude towards teachers’...
FALL FALL FALL FALL FALL
halvgal:
APPLE ORCHARD WITH KELS.
I want to go to there!
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Some Lawyer Writes about how Twilight Opened her... →
Look, if you’re a corporate lawyer who discovered the meaning of life via Twilight whilst honeymoon-ing in Dubai…
Well, I’m just not prepared to take anything you have to say very seriously, no matter how impeccable your prose. Anyway, the argument is ultimately hollow. Human existence is meaningless, but immortality would be excellent because immortals can appreciate the...
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Wrote “lol” on a student paper I was grading.
quixoticandabsurd asked: I <3 your new picture!!!
Crashing drunk in someone else’s bed. Wish I were home. Would not have gotten drunk if I had known former roommate was going to freak out. Not exactly the relaxing night off with E I envisioned…
Drunk now. It has been a long week…
Going from sober to tipsy in less than 30 min…
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– Kung Fu Monkey (via jonathan-cunningham)
did i already post this? whatever, it’s just as funny every time.
(via stfuteabaggers) oh my god I was not fucking expecting that. AMAZING
(via blackenedbutterfly)
I’ve posted this before and I don’t care it’s going up here again. (via...
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Are Charter School Really Innovative? →
girlwithalessonplan:
34years:
I’m a fan of public education because I believe it is the best way to prepare students to be participative citizens as adults. Eliminate public and institute private schools, as some groups want, and you begin to turn the USA into groups of active and disenfranchised citizens.
The article from Ecology of Education looks at the promise of charter schools as...
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Education Humor
Professor: For now, you’re all going to be sixth grade physical science students (lab commences; one MAT fashions a cape for himself out of paper and masking tape)
Sarah: How come Brian gets to wear a cape?!
Brian: (smugly) It’s in my IEP.
(entire class of future teachers cracks up)
Adaptive Traffic Lights Could Achieve ‘The Green... →
This is an interesting article about traffic patterns and such, but I posted it less for the traffic stats and more for the underlying principle of the plan: have traffic lights all obey local rules, and by doing so, the entire system will run more smoothly. This is intriguing because “small units following local rules to shape and provide order to a large complex system” is exactly...
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A Covenantal Faith
My friends, and people who hear me mention it, often ask me about Unitarian Universalism: what exactly is it, what do we do in church, are there prayers, etc. I’m not always good at articulating satisfactory answers to even the most basic questions about UUism, although I joined the church about three years ago. So, in an effort to get better at my own articulation of UUism and perhaps...
circlegame:
iamlittlei:
Housewarming party was fine, but no one drank much and I had fewer people than expected, so now I have a lot of alcohol and nothing to do with it. If I had roommates it would not be problematic, but I live alone and all of my friends are busy always.
It’s good alcohol, too. Perhaps I will just resign myself to drinking alone.
I would have been so drunk. I would...
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Also, I am apparently being held responsible for... →
The Catholic League calls on atheists to apologize for the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. It is probably pointless to waste space here explaining why this is inane, but I’ve posted the article for your amusement.
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Housewarming party was fine, but no one drank much and I had fewer people than expected, so now I have a lot of alcohol and nothing to do with it. If I had roommates it would not be problematic, but I live alone and all of my friends are busy always.
It’s good alcohol, too. Perhaps I will just resign myself to drinking alone.
capucha.tumblr.com writes like a middle aged... →
circlegame:
capucha:
This is fun.
Yeah it is. Especially because it’s usually really spot on, but occasionally calls one of my friends an old man.
Just to clarify: it thinks that I am an old man. I would be interested to see what it uses to determine gender—is it because I write about science all the time?
…and then I watched the video of myself teaching. Not exactly an ego-booster, but given that I wasn’t graded on physical attractiveness (as far as I know), still not entirely clear on how my performance only rated a 50%.
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I failed my first teaching performance today—a 5.25 out of 10 on a lesson launch performed in front if my fellow MATs.
No one did well—I think the high score was a 6.5 or something—and quite a few of my classmates told me mine was best (clearly, our prof disagreed). Nonetheless it’s hard not to be discouraged by this. Certainly I was not perfect but 50% seems a bit...
Why is the science content always so abysmally wrong in teacher education materials? I recognize that these materials are just offering us brief examples to illustrate teaching techniques—content isn’t their focus—but don’t just throw together some related biology terms and decide it’s OK. It’s sloppy, and it indicates to me that you do not think it is necessary...
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Newt Gingrich being Newt Gingrich →
american-apologies:
Via HuffPost:
“Fueling the myth mongering that Barack Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a recent interview that the president may follow a ‘Kenyan, anti-colonial’ worldview.
‘What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his...
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My mentor, talking to a student: Go work with Ms. F to get help on this assignment.
Student (alarmed): She scares me, though.
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“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond...”
– Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth
I will totally have this quote posted in my future classroom. If it won’t get me fired.
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One of my science education readings just informed me that genes are made of alleles.
This is not at all true. Genes are not “made of” alleles. Nothing is “made of alleles.” A gene codes for a protein, and alleles of a gene code for variations in that protein. For example, say there is a gene which codes for pigment in flowers. We’ll call that gene pig, and say...
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bringthebeards:
I’ve been to 5 of these places...
“How many more groups of people does the Republican Party have to hate before its...”
– God Loves A Good Book Burning « Margaret and Helen (via tart-tart)
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Stuff High School Freshmen Believe
(this may be a recurring feature of my tumblr, based on my student teaching experiences)
A girl in a career-prep biology course asked whether it was true that you would go crazy if a bird plucked out your hair and used it in its nest. When my mentor assured her that it was not true, the girl asked whether you would at least get a headache.
Science ed: she needs it.
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Alright tumblr. let me fully comprehend what...
halvgal:
coleycannoli:
savagemike:
principialuis:
Obama refuses to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is ruled unconstitutional.
U.S. Court of Appeals lifts a ban on Embryonic Stem Cell research
Prop 8 will not be defended in court.
The Qur’an book burning may not be held.
Arnold Schwarzenegger mocks Sarah Palin.
What is this a wet dream? (Please let it be one...
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eyelessdolls:
Come As You Are - NIRVANA
I...
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