Attending the re-enactment of the Battle of Busy Run was a favorite and familiar part of our homeschool curriculum. The end to battle reenactments at Bushy Run Battlefield has left many members of the community saddened and frustrated. But in Harrisburg, officials with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission consider the new “no force-on-force” policy…
Similar:In an Unpredictable Job Market, How Should People Think About College Majors?I tell my students that if what they wan…AcademiaA Pedestal, A Table, A Love Letter: Archaeologies of Gender in Videogame HistoryA thoughtful, informative article on the…BusinessListening to the Text: The Medieval Speech BubbleFrom a culture where silent reading was …AestheticsPart of Wright brothers' 1st…
“I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.” And it was “partly out of that sad self-knowledge” that he wrote Lord of the Flies. Rutger Bregmen writes: “began to wonder: had anyone ever studied what real children would do if they found themselves alone on a deserted island?…
Similar:Slow flyby of a scout shop. Starfield backdrop; particle-based engine exhaust; hull uses a…More progress as I continue to level up …AestheticsMe: Carolyn, are you ok? Carolyn:Just reminding myself that I am a gift.AmusingBrother Stuck in the BathroomThe girl posted this story on Instagram …AmusingA little better all the time.A little better all the time.PersonalA…
Similar:Musician Daryl Davis Has Converted Hundreds of KKK Members Over 30 Years — Here's HowYears later, after earning my degree in …AwesomeEverybody Dies (Shakespearean Tragedy Infographic) The image (by Magee and Griffin) is an…Aesthetics"Godspell" is sure to entertain audiences of all ages and faithsThat’s me in the white shirt, with a tie…CultureTeaching myself the #Unity3D…
Similar:Finland is Winning the War on Fake NewsThis is story is from May, but it’s very…CultureAll Good Things… (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 25) Picard faces a timey-wim… Rewatching ST:TNG When we all fir…AwesomeIs the United Airlines man being smeared in the media even the right David Dao? It shouldn… “Doctor dragged off…
Similar:Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. –Mr Dooley on the function of journali…“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the c…CultureMoonBot (from the family steampunk bedtime RPG 2007-2013) vs. a crate and lamps.https://youtu.be/h2P2Ve-oZ1U AestheticsMy dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New WorldAs my father [Neil Postman] pointed out,…BooksCode is…
“[Police] will lie to you about what crime they are actually investigating,” Duane writes in his book, “whether they regard you as a suspect, whether they plan to prosecute you, what evidence they have against you, whether your answers may help you, whether your statements are off the record, and whether the other witnesses have…
Similar:I am not really sure why I have kept it up this long. I have no immediate or foreseeable p… CultureA very happy geekling playing Dungeons and Dragons on her one free evening. #llapGamesThank you, Bogdan, for fixing and dropping off my light.PersonalSecret Mouthwash Dance Exposed as FraudRecently, while getting the kids ready f…AmusingI may…
Similar:"Dammit Mom, I'm a daughter, not a theoretician!"”Dammit Mom, I’m a daughter, not a theor…AmusingThe Miller of the Dee; by James Baldwin; read by Dennis JerzI showed up at the recording studio for …AestheticsA little board-gaming for Labor Day.PersonalUnmarked papers today. How it started, how it's going.PersonalNo filter October mist as I walked up from…
Similar:A full minute standing ovation after that rousing final “Alleluia.” Thrilling!PersonalIn September, 2001 I was blogging about… With a grant from UWEC, I was able t…AestheticsListening to the Text: The Medieval Speech BubbleFrom a culture where silent reading was …AestheticsFall 2017 Grades Submitted. No professional tasks until Tuesday. Bliss!PersonalThe Tempest, According to My 9yo DaughterShe’s…
Similar:Shirley Temple Black, Screen Darling, Dies at 85 Shirley Temple Black, who as a dimpled,…CultureThe girl enjoyed seeing Alex Noble and the rest of the cast of Sive. (Last shows, 2 & 8 to…CultureGo Forth and Conquer, but Postpone the Selfie“We have about 850 graduates, and we hav…AcademiaWinky Winky Drudge ReportThe Drudge Report today features…
Today I met a class of English majors who love writing, and who expressed concern that AI writers will put them out of a job. Human- and machine-generated prose may one day be indistinguishable. But that does not quell academics’ search for an answer to the question “What makes prose human?” […] “Think about what…
I knew it! Busted!! “One night someone made a joke about just taking all these ideas, lumping them together, and saying the Greeks had done it all 2,000 years ago,” Haddlebury said. “One thing led to another, and before you know it, we’re coming up with everything from the golden ratio to the Iliad.” “That was…
Similar:Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween…AestheticsThe bots are coming. And they have poems. Yet in a circle pallid as it f…CybercultureIan Bogost Has Won a HuffPo Badge for his Anti-Gamification Comment on HuffPo Daniel Donahoo: Gamification in Educ…AmusingPlaying God (#StarTrek #DS9…
“Professing Criticism” proceeds on the basis that, in order to decipher the present and to prepare for the future, one must first turn to the past. “The study of literature—in the premodern sense of any writing that has been preserved or valued—is very old, the oldest kind of organized study in Western history, excepting only…
Artificial intelligence has been deployed to handle facial recognition, recommend movies, and auto-complete your typing. The news that CNET had been using it to generate entire stories, however, sent a ripple of anxiety through the news media for its seeming threat to journalists. The robot-brained yet conversational ChatGPT can produce copy without lunch or bathroom breaks and…
The story goes like this: A man goes to a morgue in Galilee, RI to look at a body that had been identified as him. “Nope,” he said, “that ain’t me.” Then he left. 84 years after premature reports of his death, the late Charles Keville is going viral. Background on this story from The…
“To begin our hoax scenario, we intended to build participants’ trust in the machine by pretending that it could decode their preferences and attitudes,” the study authors wrote. “The system included a sham MRI scanner and an EEG system, that supposedly used neural decoding driven by artificial intelligence (AI).” […] In other words, participants were…
Ad Fontes Media Similar:Paper too short? Here are actual tips for serious students, not dumb tricks your prof will…Is your academic essay a bit short? F…AcademiaSparklecleaver the PonyswordCorrections – December 30 – NYTimes.com….AmusingViral Video Vilifies Foul-ball FanA recent video that shows a kid in the b…EthicsPlaying God (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 17) Dax…