Timely Snow

Here’s a list of the most widely subscribed-to newspapers in the world. The newspaper I read every day, The New York Times, comes in at #42, which is still ahead of my favorite Chinese newspaper Qingnian Bao at #49. Although the Chinese circulation numbers are suspiciously round.

Magdalene Lampert is giving a talk entitled “Language and Teaching: What is There to Teach?”

Oneaday
百足之虫死而不僵

From the ever useful Oneaday.

Their translation:

A centipede doesn’t topple over when dead;
old institutions die hard

I don’t see how “僵” gets translated as “topple over” though—I thought it meant something more like “stiff.”

I just discovered that the Google “dictionary: X” works with Chinese characters. It seems I’m right.

Wenlin translates “死而不僵” as “dead, but showing no [...]

How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun

Bolivia: Tiny Nation, Big Troubles | csmonitor.com
As they’ve gained power, however, there’s been a backlash. Forced by
extreme poverty to take extreme positions, Indians in countries like
Ecuador and Bolivia have adopted socialist, sometimes militant,
ideology, demanding their governments nationalize the oil and gas
industries.

IWILL USA Site

I’ve been dealing with a broken miniPc manufactured by Iwill USA. It died about a year ago, and they sent us a new motherboard. That failed to fix the problem—it had killed the CPU and memory as well. I sent the whole thing back and got it back today, minus a few parts. [...]

IGDA - Articles – Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons
More than a century of studies show that long-term useful worker output
is maximized near a five-day, 40-hour workweek. Productivity drops
immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, at
approximately eight 60-hour weeks, the total work done is the same as
what would have been done in [...]

Don’t Stand By Me – Surviving a lightning strike. By Joshua Foer
On average, 67 Americans are reported killed by lightning each year. Nobody keeps accurate records of the number of lightning injuries, but estimates range from 200 to 1,000 annually. Four in five survivors are men (who are more likely to work outside and play [...]

Bug Bash
...for some comic relief.

Lee Shulman is giving a talk entitled “From ‘Psychologizing the Subject Matter’: A Century of Thought on the Specificity and Generality of Teaching and Teacher Education.”