An autistic undergraduate has tips for professors and administrators: The fact that my disability, and the accommodations that I require because of it, did not crush my higher-education dreams is a testament to the democratization of higher education. While college is still not accessible to everyone, more and more people are able to attend. Low-income,…
A federal judge ruled that CNN correspondent Jim Acosta can keep his White House hard pass, handing a victory to CNN in its lawsuit against President Trump and top White House officials. The case could be a precedent-setting case for journalistic access to the White House. Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump-appointed judge, announced the…
Similar:An important day to remember.Never again.PersonalJoust @setonhilluniversity discussion of summer book #readyplayeronePersonalVisiting the KLBE Air MuseumPersonalSo this is Pi DayMy wife says she bought the pies intendi…AmusingFriend I hadn't seen for about 20 years delivers a vintage nerdy gift.During the original run of Star Trek: Th…MediaFriday night board game therapy. #startrek #monopolyPersonal
Similar:This is Ralph. Ralph is a concept, created by you while reading this.AmusingThe Cosmic Brownie fairy has visited my office. Is “brownie fairy” redundant? Thank you an…PersonalLooking forward to Part 2 of #PPTPlaytime’s production “The Rivals” (live… now!)CultureFeeling classy while I lose. Feeling classy while I lose. PersonalHollow Pursuits (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode…
Similar:You can be a Trek fan without loving TOS. But if we think tolerance and empathy are good t…I was born in 1968 and grew up with reru…CultureOpening night! So great to see live local theatre.PersonalIs this why oldsters love nostalgia? I’m 50. I’m in my office casually sharp…CultureStack of wooden desk trays with metal…
Bob Woodward, half of the Washington Post team whose coverage of the Watergate scandal brought down the Nixon presidency, told an audience at the Global Financial Leadership Conference in Florida that media figures are letting their emotions affect their reporting. NBC journalist Dylan Byers quoted Woodward as saying, “In the news media there has been…
From Wikipedia: In 1888 Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days’ notice,[19] she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of…
As a kid, I remember studying my CRT displays with a microscope. Each pixel that I could control with BASIC on my TRS-80 or Atari 800 or Commodore-64 was made up of tiny arrays of red, blue, and green dots that I could not control directly. There was one display mode of the Atari 800…
CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s access to the White House. The lawsuit is a response to the White House’s suspension of Acosta’s press pass, known as a Secret Service “hard pass,” last week. The suit alleges that…
Similar:Arsenic and Old Lace. I haven't seen this show since I played the lead as a high school ju…CultureIn-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door to see A…CultureMy 13yo homeschooler had no idea how to open a little milk carton. I had to show her.CultureIn November 2000, I was…
Fake news is not a problem caused by those dishonorable people whose political values differ from yours. Misinformation researchers have proposed two competing hypotheses for why people fall for fake news on social media. The popular assumption—supported by research on apathy over climate change and the denial of its existence—is that people are blinded by partisanship,…
Great production of a very moving story. The production did a good job dealing honestly with the misogyny in the script. When Curley’s wife came in wearing a red dress, Carolyn muttered, “This isn’t going to end well.” Similar:Drinking milk and using the #WaybackMachine to fix broken links in a 10-year-old blog post…PersonalAnother 10sq cm…
This morning a journalism student told me a friend in a different class was complaining that “the media” was stigmatizing mental illness in its coverage of yesterday’s mass shooting in California. My student told me she remembered I had mentioned that reporters often don’t write the headlines under which their stories are published, but she…
For the UK Guardian, the news is the words the White House used while accusing Acosta of an action caught on video. For Fox, Sanders was accused of sharing an allegedly “‘doctored’” video of a neutrally-identified “interaction.” For the Washington Post, the White House “shares doctored video” — no accusation, no scare quotes. Read…
Critical Thinking Matters Personal Essays vs. Academic Writing Summary vs. Original Ideas Filler: “There Are Many Reasons to Avoid the Filler Phrase ‘There Are’” Bloom’s Taxonomy: Hierarchy of Critical Thinking Skills Similar:Video: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror – NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryYes, the Mars rovers are cute and wonder…DesignEmily Dickinson Fun Page #literature #amusing…
Fox News was the first major outlet to predict the House would flip to blue, in a show of professional confidence that drew praise from journalists. The decision desk’s call made me think that somewhere — under all its appalling propaganda and conspiracy peddling — a beating heart of news is still pumping away, however…
Would love to teach it to healthcare students someday. Similar:An Excerpt from Mechanisms [2]: 'Professor RAMAC'Among the attractions at the 1958 World’…BooksVan Gogh Immersive Experience AestheticsEssay on how much a professor learned about teaching from his mentorI had a similar experience, with a mento…CultureHow Zuckerberg’s Facebook is like Gutenberg’s printing pressHistorian Niall Ferguson notes that…
While my students are out of the room making a video, I’m quickly marking the homework that was due today. When we reconvene we’ll discuss both assignments, and then it’s on to the next task. Similar:The Whole Internet Hates MeAmusingLooking forward to another visit to Illyria. Support humans who create art in your communi…PersonalWhat gives…
Twenty-one-year-old political science student Kieran McMurchy says he’s shocked at how quickly Trump supporters have “lost faith in pillars of free speech like the Washington Post and the New York Times.” A few months ago, he was planning to go to law school. Now, he says he’s fired up to be a journalist. “It’s definitely concerning the way…
Not fun, but done. Similar:MS Paint AdventuresWonderfully silly take on old-school poi…AmusingGoogle's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in SearchI didn’t watch the game, but I did catch…AestheticsDesiderata (Nerdy Inspiration)This is a little story about an inspirat…CultureR.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Full Play (via Zoom)All 3 acts and the epilogue to R.U.R. (R…BooksOpening Night: New "The Little…