Timely Snow

I’m staying in a hotel called the Lindner, right on Kurfürstendamm. In honor, presumably, of the forthcoming World Cup events, there’s an enormous Fussball game outside the hotel, where one person controls a rank of players, all of whom are the Berlin Bears used as a municipal art project a few years ago (like the [...]

I’m visiting Berlin this week, to meet with people at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, aka Max Planck Institut fur Bildungsforschung, give or take an umlaut, and note that the English name is not a translation of the German name. I arrived Sunday morning and had a few hours to walk around before [...]

USATF - America’s Running Routes – Search Results
Huron-Broadway Loop

And perhaps you will, too: ‘Aerotropolis’ participants hope ideas take flight

Gasoline Price History

So it’s still too cheap…

This link Instructivist: Farther shores discusses this posting about AERA.

I didn’t go to AERA this year, although I’ve done so in the past. The (very thick) program always contains a few talks whose titles make you laugh out loud, including the ones cited in these postings.

On the other hand, it would be misleading to [...]

[the original post, which is intact below for historical interest and as a measure of a) my lack of German expertise, and b) the socially-correcting nature of the internet, is premised on a very dumb German mistake]. I’m reporting it because there are several traps here that the unwise and unwary can fall into (that [...]

FREE —Federal Resources for Educational Excellence – Home Page. This looks promising—free educational resources online, courtesy of the U.S. Federal government.

Read all about it here. Short answer: no.

Today is the birthday of Chris Correa. Why don’t you wish him a happy one?

Here’s what else happened on this date. Among many other things, it’s the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, although I couldn’t find a good picture of him