A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read this week. The Cheats Movement Podcast, One-On-One With Tom Perriello (Candidate for Governor of Virginia) (March 16, 2017) Refreshing to hear a white US...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Cathy O'Neil, How to think statistically (about dieting) (March 13, 2017) Here’s the golden standard: if you can come up with something...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Joy Buolamwini, InCoding — In the Beginning (May 16, 2016) Whoever codes the system, embeds her views. A call for inclusive code. By the...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Sam Altman, What I Heard From Trump Supporters (February 21, 2017) Eileen Reynolds, What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Lara Zarum, PBS Affiliate to Live-Stream 1963 James Baldwin Documentary ‘Take This Hammer’ Ahead of the Oscars (February 23, 2017) For...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. The Public Domain Review: W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900) (February 11, 2017) Du Bois —...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Julia Slige, What Programming Languages Are Used Most on Weekends? (February 7, 2017) A good first pass over a new dataset is a...
A round-up of some of the intriguing, insightful, and/or thought-provoking things I read over the last week. Sheila Weller. How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case. On a steamy hot September day in 1955, in...
Traditions are often thought of as connective, a way of carrying the past into the present. But their character as rituals makes them very powerful demarcations, too. If they connect you and your ancestors, traditions can also be a reminder that...
Were you to ask, I think a lot of learning and education professionals would tell you that they’re at war with entropy. They’d probably call it “forgetting,” or “failed knowledge transfer,” or the like, but the word would indicate the same thing:...