teaching
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On bad penis puns.
Modern English is built on a foundation of The King James Bible and William Shakespeare – the former, plagiarized from a person we burned on the stake for his efforts; the latter, Lord Regent of Bad Penis Puns, as though his very name compelled him: Willy-I-Am Shake-Spear, Billy Wagcock, old I am a dick now…
bad puns, Barbara Hamby, capon, Christopher Logue, competition, consensual nonmonogamy, cooperation, education, Emily Wilson, Entitled, etymology, Eugenia Cheng, fornicate, gender, history of English, humor, hysteria, James Joyce, jealousy, Joyce, Kate Manne, Mansplaining, Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, men, mythology, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, patriarchy, Penelope's Lament, penis, penis puns, poetry, polyamorous, polyamory, puns, scortatory, sex, sexuality, Shakespeare, slang, teaching, Telemachus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses, vagina, vulgar slang, War Music, women, X+Y
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On childcare.
Love from parents is great, but children benefit most from a whole network of care.
caretaking, child care, child development, child psychology, childcare, childhood development, children, developmental psychology, elementary school, elementary school teachers, evolutionary psychology, extended care network, father, fatherhood, Hrdy, Monroe County YMCA, motherhood, mothering, nuclear families, parenting, parents, Play and Learn, raising children, raising kids, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy, school, school teachers, teacher, teachers, teaching, the importance of childcare, valuing childcare, valuing children, valuing teachers, YMCA, YMCA Play and Learn
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On hubris and climate change.
I probably should’ve known this already, but climate science is REALLY hard!
atmosphere, atmospheric carbon, atmospheric modeling, atmospheric science, burden of proof, carbon dioxide, chaos engines, climate, climate alarmist, climate alarmists, climate change, climate change alarmists, climate change education, climate change skeptics, climate destabilization, climate education, climate research, climate science, climate science education, climate simulation, climate skeptic, climate skeptics, education, environment, environmentalism, extinction, feedback loops, global warming, Global Warming Policy Foundation, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, human extinction, ice core, ice core data, ice cores, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lindzen, meteorology, political correctness, Richard Lindzen, science education, science teaching, simulation data, teaching, teaching climate, teaching climate change, thermodynamics, thermodynamics of life, two degrees, two degrees Celsius, uninhabitable Earth, vegan, veganism, Venus, warming planet, was Venus habitable, We Are the Weather, weather
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On education rankings.
Rich untraumatized professors’ kids score well on exams. Poor kids often score worse. Does that tell you how good their teachers are?
doctor evaluations, doctor rankings, doctor ratings, education, education spending, elementary school evaluations, elementary teachers, federal school evaluations, Indiana Department of Education, medical ratings, Saurabh Jha, school disctricts, school districting, school rankings, standardized test, standardized testing, student need, surgeon ratings, surgery, teacher evaluation, teacher evaluations, teacher pay, teacher salary bonus, teaching, testing, value added, When a Bad Surgeon Is the One You Want, when a low rated doctor is the one you want
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On changing a life.
We can’t be *forced* to change … & sometimes it takes a jolt to realize that we want to.
AA, addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Becoming Ms. Burton, Cari Lynn, drug use, drugs, getting sober, halfway houses, heroin, I Felt Your Presence in the Absence of Time, incarceration, jail, jail dormitory, John-Michael Bloomquist, junk, Max E., meth, methamphetamine, Monster House Press, New Leaf, New Leaf New Life, opiates, Poems from the Jail Dorm, poetry, prison poetry, recovery, rehab, release from prison, San Diego 1985, shame, sober, Susan Burton, teaching, teaching in jail
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On race and our criminal justice system.
In our nation’s criminal justice system, we ignore most of who people are… and focus only on the parts of them we fear.
AI, blow and go, broken communities, Child Beater, education, emotional trauma, going without medication, jail, jail medical care, jail poetry, Marfan syndrome, mass incarceration, medical care in jail, Norman Dubie, persona poetry, poetry, poverty, prison, prison poetry, probation, prosecutorial discretion, racial injustice, rehabilitation, Safe Passage, sentencing inequality, teaching, teaching in jail
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On perception and learning.
We adults can’t fix the world until we learn from children that it’s okay to be wrong.
analytical philosophy, animal cognition, automated image analysis, Brendan Wenzel, Bring me a slab, childhood development, children’s books, chimpanzee learning, computer learning to find cats, computer science, data clustering, David Lancy, falsifiable theories, Google, human development, identification, language acquisition, learning, Liu Cixin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mental filters, neural networks, New York Times, parenting, perception, personhood, Philosophical Investigations, principal component analysis, Quoc Le, science, scientific method, Slab!, Stanford, teaching, The Anthropology of Childhood, The Three-Body Problem, They All Saw a Cat, unsupervised learning, Upshot, what is a cat, what is red, Youtube cat videos
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