A jigsaw analogy for teaching
Have you ever observed and thought about the steps along the way as a child figures out how to do a jigsaw puzzle? They start out mostly just chewing on the pieces, but soon they develop a desire to...
View ArticlePer Capita FFS!
NB! This post is about an obvious and egregious mistake made by the New York Times, but differences in population numbers are not the only factors that make these statistics non-comparable between...
View ArticleHow many colors are there in the rainbow?
I’m currently (re)learning computer programming, and in trying to come up with a project for an application I started thinking about colors in general and computer colors in the specific. This post is...
View Article“One daughter + family burnt up in Hinkley fire”
The headline is from the life story of my great-great grandfather’s sister Thora and is all she included about her aunt Olava. Most of Thora’s other aunts and uncles got short shrift, but this terse...
View ArticleFox News still exists
Donald Trump has just been defeated. This is undoubtedly good news. A second term would have been terrible both in policy outcomes and in psychological effect on both his fans and detractors. But once...
View ArticleIt’s getting hotter!
No, this isn’t a climate change post, although it would have been a perfectly fine headline for one. The Earth as a whole is getting hotter and people aren’t going to do enough to slow that down. But...
View ArticleAttorney General who avoided prosecution for deadly hit and run investigates...
The Washington Post has something for everyone today with articles like Senate set to approve funding bill hours before deadline to avert shutdown, Cryptocurrency program has made Miami $7 million so...
View ArticleWas (a short story)
I don’t know why I went. I knew it would be depressing. Maybe it was the same tendency towards self-torture which has kept me striving towards green behavior despite the belief it’s futile, even past...
View ArticleWe don’t have to do anything about climate change
I mean that in the sense that we don’t have to do anything. I don’t have to write this text and share it, but I’m doing so because the thoughts in it keep bugging me and I have a vain hope they’ll do...
View ArticleMy favorite podcasts
My wife is off on an adventure this weekend and I’m alone with a dog who is being a pest, so it’s time to write about my favorite podcasts, which I’ve meant to do for some time, but didn’t get around...
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