I survived the first day teaching in a masked classroom. As I expected, I had a very difficult time hearing my students. I felt awkward taking up the first class talking about myself, but I told them I’ve recently been diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. My ears can pick up the sounds of their…
Bee walked on six spindly legs to the spot where Spider had stopped moving. Bee, whose job was to record the doings of the lab, had been across the room, but its video feed had captured the moment. The tiny arachnid-shaped bot had been monitoring the bio-nanobot colonies when it teetered and fell, alone. “Can…
Plenty of news organizations have reported on the tragic case of a white boy who was murdered while riding his bicycle. One must ignore easily verifiable opposing evidence to claim that “the media” are universally ignoring this story. It’s even more unhinged to latch upon the conspiracy theory that the reason for this (non-existent) lack…
Similar:You're not going to read thisI ask my students to contextualize links…BusinessThat time three-year-old me spotted a Mary Cassatt painting at the Art Institute of Chicag…My mother had a framed print of Mary Cas…AestheticsI felt a great disturbance in the Fandom”…as if millions of voices suddenly cr…AestheticsShould a Journalist Covering Rocky Horror Live Attend the Show…
Similar:Dear 11yo DaughterYou are growing up smart, talented, dete…PersonalHappy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!The girl spent her birthday weekend open…PersonalAnother delightful section of #neovictorian #steampunk control panel, intended for backgro…One of many steampunk control panels I’v…AestheticsWhat are you eating at midnight breakfast?PersonalMy 13yo and 18yo enthralled by WarGames.Wife likes movies. Son likes military th…CultureThe girl as Mrs…
One of the few harsh critics of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, which premiered 70 years ago. Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays. Source: Eric Bentley, Critic Who Preferred Brecht to Broadway, Dies at 103…
On Tuesday, as Florida set a daily record for covid-19 deaths, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods prohibited his deputies from wearing masks at work. His order, which also applies to visitors to the sheriff’s office, carves out an exception for officers in some locations, including hospitals, and when dealing with people who are high-risk or…
Similar:World Trade Center Literary and Cultural Reflections (first posted September 11, 2001) Not knowing what else to do, in the nu…AestheticsFirst Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News Shad and co say bots play a part…AcademiaThe Myth of ‘Learning Styles’The discourse around “learning styles” (…AcademiaChess again with my son.GamesThe ‘Cancelling’…
block of American society. But for critics of how the term is used today, Judeo-Christian is vague, historically flawed and even inflammatory. These opposing views reflect a deep rift in American society and illuminate very different fundamental political beliefs.
“This is a term defined by exclusion,” said Shalom Goldman, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, arguing that the term is often used to reject secular values and Muslims.
“It’s essentially saying our values are not the values of the Enlightenment or the Constitution, but instead our values are the values of the Bible,” he said.
Rabbi Jack Moline, president of the Washington-based Interfaith Alliance, called the term a “generalization” and said it is one “Christians in particular use to put a patina of universality on a certain Christian culture in the United States.”
Good news writing, and praise for Trump’s cool demeanor during a crisis, from : The Independent The large man in the grey suit interrupted Donald Trump. No one interrupts Donald Trump – especially at the White House. At his White House. Then the man turned his back to the television cameras showing the utterly surreal scene live around the…
Similar:The Jem'Hadar (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 26) Sisko father-son bonding vaca… Rewatching ST:DS9 Sisko is unimpr…JusticeThe Drinks are On Us! and Us! and Us Too!I got a text message a couple days ago…..CultureThere are two factions working to prevent AI dangers. Here’s why they’re deeply divided. We are assigning more societal decisio…AcademiaBlood &…
You might have been asked to submit a short video assignment. Don’t do what I’m doing! You can’t see my eyes, the background is distracting, you’re looking up my nose and the lighting is awful. This short video demonstrates some quick tips that will greatly improve a video submission assignment. Your instructor and your classmates…
Similar:MS-Word's helpful "View -> Focus" mode delays stress-related breakdowns.You won’t usually catch me saying anythi…CybercultureLast weekend I roughed out shapes to represent buildings, in order to provide some sense o…Last weekend I roughed out shapes to rep…PersonalOpens Wednesday.PersonalPics from Thursday's dress rehearsal of Shrek: The Musical. This weekend only! @stage…PersonalGoogle Stops Scanning Student Gmail Accounts…
I regularly teach Flannery O’Connor, and assign a whole book of her short stories when I taught an American Lit 1915-Present course. Now that I’m teaching “American Lit 1776-Present” I keep her stories in rotation, but I have more material to cover, so I have to be more selective. O’Connor’s fiction contains many themes and…
Jerz > Writing > Technical Writing Tips Similar:Venus Flytraps Are Even Creepier Than We ThoughtI clicked for the topic, but it was the …AestheticsIn a literature class, the author's words matter more than the author's life and times, or… Updating the graphic for a resource …AcademiaThey called it a "flashlight" because early handheld lights weren't designed to…
BURKE, Va. (AP) — On a recent car ride, my sons, Billy and Jimmy, were discussing an interactive “Minecraft” show on Netflix that allowed them to choose the direction of the story. I said it sounded like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, an artifact of my 1980s childhood. Then Billy, who’s 10 years old,…
Similar:Progress.PersonalUnity3D Maze Game TutorialWorkspace for an in-progress Unity3D tut…AcademiaA certain potions instructor is done with everything after submitting midterm grades. (Har…AcademiaIn July, 2002, I was blogging about military close reading, weblogs in journalism, UX evan…In July, 2002, I was blogging about …CybercultureMore split-screen actinghttp://youtu.be/EGgeZWskEs8DesignCoronavirus: advice from the Middle Ages for how to cope with self-isolationLike…
Similar:Traditional Reporters and Data-driven Analysts Both Underestimated Trump's ChancesA data-driven news outlet that gave Trum…CultureIt’s alive! What NPR learned from turning its @nprnews Twitter account from a bot into a h…My student journalists tell me they lear…CybercultureSetonian Photo Editor Wins Second Place for News Photo in Pennsylvania Newspaper Associati… Setonian Photo Editor Wins Second…
Was it a lizard person who was collecting a government dossier on the lying, America-hating fake news “journalists” at the BLM “protests,” or was it a lizard person who STOPPED the guy who was collecting the dossier? Real “patriots” who like to deploy “ironic” quotation marks demand “answers”! A senior Department of Homeland Security official…
I’m interested in the way the “Thin Blue Line” design remixes the American Flag. I’m amused by the quirky way the “Thin Bread Crust” meme remixes the remix. As I was fact-checking (as I habitually do before sharing) I found a 2018 USA Today article reporting that “drivers/sales workers and truck drivers” suffered 135.9…