Luckily for me, my wife is in deepest Bolivia, unable to read this weblog. Thus, she won’t know that I purchased a new robotic vacuum cleaner. It worked surprisingly well—it’s not that noisy, it didn’t drive our dog crazy, it didn’t fall down the stairs, and it picked up a large amount of dirt and [...]
This morning as I walked to school, I came across this sculpture in the yard of a house in the Burns Park neighborhood.
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Sometime I’ll have to check out this tool for putting multimedia into PowerPoint. It costs $50, with a two-week free trial, so I’ll want to make sure it really works.
Comics and Editorial Cartoons: FoxTrot on Yahoo! News
The problem with Wikipedia (the collaborative online encyclopedia) in a nutshell. It would be interesting to look at the categories for which it works and those for which it doesn’t.
Courtesy of Kevin Drum.
From the only First Lady we’ve got:
“Well, I taught 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade, so I taught really every subject, but reading was my favorite….I was not a very good math teacher and I think that’s kind of a problem in elementary schools. A lot of — especially women [...]
As of May 1, I’m the chair of the Combined Program in Education & Psychology, which is one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs at the University of Michigan (next year will be its 50th anniversary).
I visited my childhood friend Jim Stigler at UCLA & LessonLab, and spoke to people at both places. It was an energizing trip as always. I also visited his brand new house in Pacific Palisades.
Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
A neat Dutch site with Chinese propaganda posters.
The New Yorker: Fact.
An article about the people behind my favorite travel guides, the Lonely Planet series. Worth reading if only for the sentence:
“Like Benjamin Franklin and the Norway rat, he is a citizen of the world.”
This map shows my updated program in mapping Ann Arbor on foot.
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