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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