How to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading (Use Objective Rubrics)

4 years ago

To gauge the potential impact of a standardized rubric on grading bias, I conducted an experiment comparing how teachers graded…

First time visiting the Point. Listening to Quantum’s 10 for 21 (audio adaptation of the Decameron, set on a pandemic-era walk through Pittsburgh).

4 years ago

My first time visiting the Point. Listening to 10 for 21 -- Quantum Theatre's audio adaptation of The Decameron, directed…

CNN reports Biden’s dog was “involved in another biting incident”

4 years ago

CNN's headline: "Bidens' dog Major involved in another biting incident," but the story quotes the first lady's press secretary as…

In March, 2001, I was blogging about “All Your Base…”, digital history, 3D printers, and missing class

4 years ago

In March 2001, I was blogging about All Your Base Are Belong To Us (early meme) "Remembrance of Things Past"…

How a Supermoon Helped Free the Giant Container Ship From the Suez Canal

4 years ago

Powerful lead to this well-written news story. (Great use of embedded hyperlinks, too.) To get the giant container ship blocking…

Forgotten closet box: powder blue summer suit with a crisp 1990 $10 bill in the pocket and an awesome chunky laptop.

4 years ago

The chunky laptop seems to boot and the LCD screen flickers, but never actually turns on. I should check it…

Great Twitter thread on Aaron Burr, from the Internet Archive

4 years ago

Funny what you find in books. When digitizing an 1807 book about the trial of Aaron Burr, we discovered this…

Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper

4 years ago

“Wilbur and Orville Wright would be pleased to know that a little piece of their 1903 Wright Flyer I, the…