Correlation or Causation? – Businessweek

Correlation or Causation? – Businessweek. Similar:Pesky journalists, always showing up to document atrocities.No Democratic president should send in t…CultureSnazzy officer uniforms from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult ch…AestheticsNew York fails Common Core testsJust 23 percent of charter students scor…BusinessWhite House photo access controls public imageRather than permit photojournalists to s…CultureMicrosoft's…

Blender 3D Update

Holy ray-tracing, Batman, it’s a Blender 3D update! I have not had the chance to try out Blender 2.61, which features an ocean simulator, motion-tracking, and real-time ray-tracing. blender.org – Blender 2.61. Similar:CEO’s brutalist office, for a Zoom-based production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)….AestheticsGawker Media Files for Chapter 11 BankruptcyThis is fallout from losing an…

Blender Griffin

To celebrate yesterday’s on-time submission of final grades, I spent part of last night and much of today working on this Blender 3D model of our school mascot, the Griffin.   Similar:News Feed FYI: Click-baitingIt’s hard for me to think of Facebook as…BusinessA pie slice from the ring surrounding the ballroom, from the #steampunk bedtime…

Narnia Lesson Plans: Activities Related to the Musical (based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) — Jerz’s Literacy Weblog

I just posted the latest musical theater education packet, written by my wife, as she aims to make the most of our home-schooled children’s participation in Stage Right Greensburg’s student theater production. 1.10) Narnia, once a utopia or paradise, has become a sad, cold dystopia under the Witch’s rule. Read & discuss other examples of…

Pittsburgh Parent Magazine: Future-oriented College Majors

Pittsburgh Parent Magazine’s December issue features Seton Hill’s New Media Journalism major in a cover story by Kelli Robinson. Similar:Never use very. Write the word damn instead. Your editor will strike out the damn.CultureWhat employers really want? Workers they don’t have to trainI do teach a number of very practical co…AcademiaIn August, 2001 I was…

Losing Face

This story features my Seton Hill colleague, Lee McClain. “It’s kind of like if you are looking at a bunch of leaves on a tree, you could study them, but you’d have to work really hard to tell them apart,” said McClain. That is how she sees faces. “That part of my brain that most…

Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models

“We take pictures of the clothes on a doll that stands in the shop, and then create the human appearance with a program on [a] computer,” he said. —Clothing Giant H&M Defends ‘Perfect’ Virtual Models – ABC News. Similar:The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise shipLast year, three cryptocurrency enthusia…BusinessA tiny bit…

On the Spot: Campus Diversity

One of my journalism students posted this insightful and well-edited documentary. (She also posted a brief introduction.) HTML5 HTML5 480p FLV360p FLV360p MP4240p FLVFlash Similar:Rereading “Writing to Learn”Rereading “Writing to Learn,” William Zi…AcademiaBias Check! Consult different sources for a fuller picture.BusinessA new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than scree…Saving…

National study: Youth ‘sexting’ is downplayed

A national study released Monday suggests there is a smaller percentage of young people involved in “sexting” — sending or receiving explicit or sexually suggestive images via cell phone or Internet — than previous studies found. via National study: Youth ‘sexting’ is downplayed – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Wait a minute… who or what is doing the…

And With Your Spirit

My daughter was amused that, even with a cheat sheet in my hand, I automatically responded to “Peace be with you” with the traditional “And also with you,” every time this Sunday, instead of the new translation “And with your spirit.” Not once did I get it right. Similar:Copspeak, "the past exonerative" tense, and punching…

Lego Rudolph

Before settling down to finish reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins, my daughter made this Lego reindeer. Similar:Remembering James Doohan on his 100th Birthday (found on the Star Trek Wholesomeposting Fa…When I was a kid watching the reruns aft…HistoryNASA prepares a Mercury probe for orbitNASA’s Messenger probe is about 10 days …Current_EventsUpdated my "Show, Don't (Just) Tell"…