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Starting the semester with a bang
As some of you may know, my semester started out with a bang, or a crash, or at least some broken lights. Minor car accident Monday morning; I stopped for a yellow light, but the driver of the van behind me didn’t get the clues. There have been some other things going on since the beginning […]
And Bill Brass would run through the streets of Edinburgh shouting “Eureqa!”
If you are a social scientist and haven’t checked out Eureqa, you should spend a few hours playing with it in the next few months, because it’s entirely different from your prior experiences with statistical software. Featured in a Wired article last month, Download Your Own Robot Scientist, Eureqa is not a scientist but a […]
Wannabe education reformers in the U.S. need to use English
Confession: I do not have a professional editor review these blog entries before they become publicly available. As a result, there is the odd grammatical error that I notice only after publication. And yet, I do not abuse the English language deliberately. In contrast, one of the least attractive stylistic tendencies of wannabe reformers, reformists, […]
Passages
For me, 2009 was full of transitions, from the private to the international. On the private side (or that affecting me directly), in addition to my mother-in-law’s death, I’m wrapping things up (or winding them down) at the end of my five-year term as Education Policy Analysis Archives editor, and my daughter has her driver’s license […]
What can graphic novels teach us about verbs in static displays?
By Sherman Dorn on December 19, 2009
I’m in my office this afternoon for a few hours getting some work-related puttering done. While I’m procrastinating on the puttering for a few minutes, I want to talk aloud (or write publicly) about some thoughts I had in the last few days about how graphic novels convey verbs. Here’s the problem: most forms of […]
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