Timely Snow

I’ve noticed, in education school settings, what is for me a jarring tendency to drop the “-ing” suffix on gerunds. Students do a “two day teach” and I just heard someone complain about the “quality of the think” in a body of work. Is this something going on more generally, and just one more indicator [...]

John Pasden has a very good discussion of how to order food in Chinese. I did something like this with McDonald’s (which has very odd translations of its food) when Ruth came on a long-term visit to China with me as a child, and then with more di4 dao4 de restaurants later.

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Check out this example of web video / transcript / navigation tools. Pretty slick. I haven’t watched the whole thing, so I don’t know if Chris’ question was picked.

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Martin Yan visited Ann Arbor today and gave a cooking demonstration at a local appliance store. It was a busy day, but I’m glad I took some time to go to this. His cookbooks were my entree into Chinese cooking, and I really have enjoyed the TV shows of his that I’ve seen (not many). [...]

Could this really be true?

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I’m listening to a talk by Reinhard Pekrun about the impact of emotions on learning and achievement. Nothing very surprising — negative emotions cause people to narrow their attentional focus, rely more on extrinsic motivation, etc., but some fairly elegant studies.

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I didn’t know this existed — a good way of inducing various emotions.
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