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Haters and disrespect aside, fruitcake is still a robust American tradition.
Two Williams pioneered geological mapping in Britain and the United States - but the world only remembers one.
Higher education faces challenges that are unlike any other industry. What path will ASU, and universities like ASU, take in a post-COVID world?
Here's why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
We keep hearing that Scandinavia has perfected socialism, but is that true?
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
Scientists just discovered 12 new moons orbiting the planet Jupiter, and they’re… interesting.
A listing of some of the British royalty’s favorite family names as the name Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s new baby.
Sibling rivalries can lead to some impressive moments in history, how did these seven sets of siblings do?
Trying to figure out the meaning of life? Here are a few thoughts on the subject from some very famous American philosophers.
Stanford researchers identify five different types of anxiety, each correlating with the activation of different brain networks.
The Los Angeles Hope Festival is the celebration and examination of hope and optimism, two paradigmatic mental attitudes that play a vital and influential role in our daily lives.
Earth day may have been last week, but the lessons we learned about Earth from space are with us always. “We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving […]
It's harder to trace a smoking gun online than it is in real life. Yet with cyber warfare expected to grow in the coming decades, companies and countries alike are attempting to make sense forward strides in identifying the perpetrators of cyber attacks.
I’ve been asked whether I should reconsider my recent praise of AMERICAN IDOL as an admirably and characteristically American mixture of wisdom and consent. Although I can’t really speak as […]
Well, after sorting through all of the Leadership Day 2010 posts, tracking down incorrect URLs, deleting a few nonexistent items, and reviewing some attempts to recycle old posts, I believe […]
On Monday I published the final list of Leadership Day 2010 posts. Today I’m going to highlight a few that, for one reason or another, particularly resonated with me. This is […]
[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
As America becomes increasingly diverse, many school districts are experiencing changes in their traditional student populations. When districts have significant increases in the number of students of color and/or students […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn A collection of thoughts about P-12 professional development, with a (hopefully) whiz-bang ending… n Big idea 1: Most current staff development is awful. n […]
I’ve been tagged by several people to participate in the 8 RandomnThings meme. I usually don’t post about personal stuff on this blog, butngiven that my lastnpost opened me up […]
Yesterday I concluded my series of posts related to gaming, cognition, and education. The purpose of the series was to illustrate some of the powerful learning principles that are present […]
This essay describes a model for urban development that takes into account and makes use of the externalities that exist in the built environment. Buildings and the people that inhabitat them makes neighborhoods and vice versa the value of a building is in its locations. How can better frame this relationship between an object and its environment? How can develop strategies for a integral area development that learn from the best global examples?