Search Results: school
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... science" that looks something like a college or high-school level introductory course: Something that introduces important ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... off on the black market. Thousands of former high school debaters stand up and shout I told you so! (Anyone else remember running ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... many hard parts about being a teacher in a high-poverty school is that not only do you have a severely constrained budget for classroom ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... put new hot plates into a woefully underequipped high school science lab and rock samples and stream tables into the hands of 125 ... turn the entire 4th grade population of this elementary school into an insatiable horde of small geologists. Of course, the challenge ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... mean that science is getting squeezed out of elementary school classrooms. Teachers know that their students love science, and are ... is a nonprofit organization designed to help you help schools tackle the projects you think are important. They gather proposals from ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 comments... apparently a dedicated mathphobe in the California public school system can easily escape such basic mathematical acculturation. If we ...
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18 Jun 2020: Advice for a Mathphobe?
Aimless: · 25 comments... compliment that with a BS in geology in order to be a high school science teacher. Here's the thing: as obsessed as I am with geology, I'm ... Because I'm bad at it, I studied the -ologies in high school and have only a cursory background in chem and physics. I'm going to buy ...
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19 May 2020: I’d Like to Thank the Academy
Aimless: acknowledgments, gratitude, thanks, writing · 5 comments... suddenly I remembered all those worksheets we did in high school chemistry converting gloofs per square hornswoggle to ... when I finally realize what I actually learned in grad school. *The Buckingham Pi theorem is a fancy way of telling you that if you ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... never go back. Within a year, I was thinking about grad school. And within a year of starting grad school, I was thinking about leaving. This time, I'm swearing that I will only ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... murky press release. But if you start revising your middle-school earth science textbooks based on just a single tomographic anisotropy ...
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20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... point that hasn't been discussed much yet is that graduate school in the earth sciences is actually freakishly egalitarian - unlike other ...
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18 Feb 2020: Repost: A Puzzle
Aimless: · 4 comments... to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is grad school. I give it a 75% chance of being an oncoming train. What this means ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... to get a "real" job without leaving the field, which makes school almost like part of a competitive labor market - even without collective ...
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12 Feb 2020: Jim Watson, My Racist Corporate Overlord
Aimless: · 32 comments... which I must then work to isolate and unroot. I'm of the school that says -isms are pervasive structural problems and Mother Culture is ...
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4 Jan 2020: Caucus
Politics: Dennis Kucinich, Iowa caucuses, Iowa City, presidential elections · no comments... ready to start, we'd been in a hot, overstuffed elementary school gymnasium for 45 minutes, and we'd finished most of the chit-chat with ...
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3 Jan 2020: Notes from the Iowa Frontlines
Politics: Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Iowa caucuses, presidential elections · 2 comments... it that I'm excited about standing around in my elementary school gymnasium watching other people talk about politics? Answer: pretty ...
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31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments... if you’re trying to make sense of your own grad school experience, but I really don’t recommend plowing all the way ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... need to cite your sources"? I want to throttle their high school teachers. C: You are clearly just putting shit down on the page ...
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8 Nov 2020: Can You Read Me?
Meta: blogtinkery, datamining, flesch-kincaid, readability, reading level, writing · 2 commentsThis little reading level analysis tool is all the rage; I'm fairly happy with my result. But of course, the little badge is just a snapshot - what I really want to know is whether blogging has really helped my writing or not. I found a WordPress plugi ...
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25 Sep 2020: Geek Ink
Science, Whimsy: diffusion, equations, tattoos · 5 comments... ever since I decided to leave grad school, I've been thinking that it might be nice to have the diffusion equation ...
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1 Jul 2020: Leaving the Ivory Tower
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: academia, book reviews, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa · 3 comments... noncompleters have about their programs, and about grad school in general, before they enter. The basic identifiable difference ... cathartic if you're trying to make sense of your own grad school experience, but I really don't recommend plowing all the way through ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... with academia, the things I wanted to find in grad school but did not, my carriage shifts and my speech becomes halting. I hedge; ...
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13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments... in terms of how it is perceived by others. I started grad school with a great deal of self-confidence, and though I retain the core ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... if three years from now, I feel the same way about grad school. The line between "individual; not gendered" and "societal; gendered" is ...
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30 Jan 2020: What’s the Good News of Geology?
Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments... out how to supply us all with energy and water, closing schools because some quack predicted an earthquake, and hopefully, finding joy ...
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14 Dec 2020: Finals Week = Bitch About Students
Personal, Teaching: apathy · 5 comments... grade was below whatever cutoff percentage their high school teachers used to determine a C; or demand to know what grade they need ...
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12 Oct 2020: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments... my head around the idea of role models. In elementary school, when we had to pick someone who was our role model and write about ...
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: Seismograms from North Korea
Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 commentsThere's one basic difference between earthquakes and explosions. Earthquakes happen when two pieces of rock slide against each other; they generate both push-pull and side-to-side waves. Explosions, by contrast, just push everything outward in all directio ...
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30 Aug 2020: Block, Writer’s
Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments... ("salon") down the block from my house has a back-to-school display in the window, with a big teddy bear in a desk, and a bunch of ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... tea has always been marketed for health purposes. Public school officials have always had the right to censor school newspapers. - hang on, when did that happen? I clearly missed a point of ...
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10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments... year of high school, my friend and I usually took the stairs up to our after-school astronomy analysis-monkey internships on the top floor of Van Allen ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... students of all ages, from elementary to graduate school, to learn what inspires and encourages them in STEMM--or why they would ... who attended small colleges, large universities, sci/tech schools, and all-female institutions women who live and study and work all ...
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10 Jul 2020: Sunday, Day of Links
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 commentsOh for pete's sake (via): Flipping his badge open, he said, "No, not with that shirt. You're protesting and you have to go." Beginning to get his drift, I said firmly, "Not before I finish my coffee." He insisted that I leave, but still not quit ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... of mass cruelty is frighteningly normal. The typical high school lesson plan on the Salem witch trials involves asking students to relate ...
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29 Jun 2020: Images to Amend the Constitution By
Politics: Dianne Feinstein, flag-burning, freedom of speech · 1 comment... and sound judgment you'd expect from a middle school student: For me--at that time as a 12-year-old--and for the Nation, ...
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17 Jun 2020: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege
Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments... my thoughts of fish and bicycles when I moved up here for school. But two weeks ago, I snuck up to Seattle for the weekend, to see the ...
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17 May 2020: On the Racial Dynamics of Bus Boarding
Politics: racism, white studies · 7 comments... the lease agreement, I slipped through a jumble of high school students queued up to use the money-ticket machine. Me 'n' the picture ...
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13 Mar 2020: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments... a radical or quasi-radical feminism, caricaturing another school of feminism, or drenched in self-deprecating irony (most of my own use ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... a 200-year tradition of Orientalism and forcing elementary school students to write bad English-language haiku about the sakura*, ...
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2 Feb 2020: The Real Perils of Plagiarism
Personal: Berzerkeley · 2 comments... FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Oh wait, no, that's my high school fight song. The Cal fight song has appropriate unsubstitutions for mascot and school colors. And the same obnoxious tune. Plagiarism. It doesn't just hurt ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 commentsNow that I'm safely curled up in my old room, time to take a whack at the ol' pile of provocations: One Rad Geek on the Bill of Rights: The Garrisonians, because so many of them were fervently religious, talked about a higher law than the Constitution ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... from many angles (too much nethack? deficiencies of a nerd school education? not enough pay?), and nobody has found an easy solution. But ...
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11 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Guantanamo
Politics: Friday random ten, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, iTunes iChing · 4 comments... get the concerto I performed as a senior showcase in high school. The House is deciding whether a strange apparition is a woman or a fox, ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... sure how much of this is the prevailing climate of grad school, and how much is just me freaking out because semesters are really long ...
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21 Oct 2020: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... earthquake on the Hayward fault before I finish grad school? The key. The Covering: Future Legend - David Bowie (from Diamond ...
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21 Sep 2020: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis
Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments... sent to members of two residential colleges over the last school year. The interviews found that 85 of the students, or roughly 60 ...
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3 Sep 2020: Unpacking Someone
Meta: fan mail, hate mail · 1 comment... u looser ! I need a picture of this medication for a school project yeh i do hav a problem why should ...
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30 Aug 2020: Piles of Minute Aggravations
Personal: cars, grad school, i hate everything · 2 comments... cause the correct number to appear on the dash. School, Money, Keys I have a fabulous office. Although I have four ...
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28 Aug 2020: The Magic is Gone
Whimsy: magic arm hair, superstition · 5 comments... of supernatural arm hair foul play - and just in time for school to start, too. Help me, I'm ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 9-12
Personal: photoblog, Scandinavia, travelogue · no comments... us around to the new Meetingapartment, the old Quaker school, the other old Quaker school, all the while chatting about the history of Norwegian Friends and the ... and tax monies accorded to Norway's free churches. The schools have been converted into pizza parlours and wretched 2020s-style urban ...
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24 Jul 2020: A Distribution of Props
Personal: pie, thanksgiving, travelogue · 4 comments... Ms. Bookish, for an impromptu rendition of the Danish schoolchildren's version of various shinies at Rosenborg Slot, and for being ...
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22 Jul 2020: Friday Roch blogging: multilingual edition
Human Fuzzies: guest posts, hockey, rock blogging · no comments... were long, long seasons. We lived in three places -- the school, the church and the skating-rink -- but our real life was on the ...
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3 Jun 2020: Feminist Web Notes
Links, Politics: feminism, rhetorical tactics, the Pussy Oversoul · no commentsLong (and old, but I'm cleaning out the blog folder today) but good discussion at Alas, A Blog about rape and the oh-so-tremendous power wielded by we gatekeepers to the Pussy Oversoul: parts 1, 2, and 3. But it's best encapsulated by this comment from Sam ...
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1 Jun 2020: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments... Maybe we should force people to take a year off after grad school to find themselves and figure out what they really want to do with all ... though, I mostly agree with Ms. Ph.D. - grad school and postdochood shouldn't be seen as the default option. Taking time off ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... I feel pressure to publish before I've even entered grad school. I need lazier friends. Jealousy aside, though, I maintain that it is ... or just a cliquey frat girl? Are there established schools of thought on the best methods of hiding dumb jokes inside otherwise ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... Talk freely about "when you were a kid". Get real "old school" on 'em. This was an effective strategy for me (I look young, so verbal ... are talking about, and I don't expect it to work in grad school, either. I suppose one could always desexualize oneself by gaining a lot ...
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18 Apr 2020: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments... brain is used for language arts instruction in elementary school by classroom teachers in the public schools. A joint Statement of Current Law on the appointment of the new ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... buncha other stuff I remember (fondly or not) from high school. Thus far I've only really heard this stuff performed by the kind of ...
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30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals
Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments... are subject to the death penalty. Moreover, all high school chemistry students must register with the Selective Health Services ...
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27 Feb 2020: Three Parts
Links, Personal: gender, grad school, memes, nudity, sexual tension · 16 comments... driving north along the Pacific Coast until I hit grad school. How far north, exactly, I dunno - thus the going to Seattle - but if ... now would be a good time to cast some pearls of grad-school-choosing wisdom. Part the Fourth, while we're discussing my ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... myself unable to articulate it yet. Distinguishing schools of feminist thought at Alas. A discussion on the correct application ... of science-fu are at issue in the upcoming Pasadena school board election. Scott Phelps - a geophysicist turned high school science ...
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11 Feb 2020: Blah Blah Blah
Meta, Whimsy: paint, quizzes, science fiction · 5 comments... happening here. Has malicious Google-doping replaced high school bathroom ...
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26 Jan 2020: Fantasy Cabinet: Education Edition
Politics, Whimsy: crackpots, fantasy politics, homophobia, time cube · no comments... a new initiative to bring Nature's Harmonic Time Cube into schools. However, he is running into problems with the NEA: Dumb ass ...
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25 Jan 2020: Holy Shit Elephants Are Awesome
Science: elephants, seismology, tsunamis · 1 commentElephants ran away from tsunami. And carried a few tourists with them, but whatever. We already know that elephants communicate seismically, and are pretty good at sensing vibrations underfoot. Not as good as a proper seismometer, of course, not least b ...
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19 Dec 2020: Someone Has a Small Internet
Meta: fan mail, high school, Internet citizen of the world, nostalgia · no comments... through livejournals of people I might've known in high school, one year younger and one clique removed, trying to guess who they were. ... this mean a batallion of robot monkeys will write my grad school applications? Pretty please? 'Cause that's what I promised myself I'd be ...
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13 Dec 2020: Top Five in 2020
Meta: clip show, procrastinating, skunks · 2 comments... not so much a choice between applying to grad school and blogging; procrastination is a foregone conclusion. It's a choice ... got out as to how ketchup was counted as a vegetable on school lunch menus? Life of the Mind - [W]e can expect some level of ...
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: In Which I Join the Establishment
Personal: caffeine, old fogeyism · 4 comments... after admitting that it might be kinda fun to go to a high school reunion. But, y'know, flying high on caffeine doesn't feel like ...
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6 Dec 2020: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no comments... It's a bullshit dialectic, yo. Dad went to high school with Mike Johanns, and I've been thinking of ways to parlay this tenuous ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... hospital infrastructure be privileged above decaying schools, decaying highways, and decaying everything else? Sick children are ...
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13 Sep 2020: No Vegetables for the Poor
Politics: classism, USDA, welfare · 2 comments... high school government teacher was a firm believer in the notion that poor mothers, ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... smell the roses Attending a meeting of the city council, school board, or miscellaneous local government commission Informing your ...
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29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review
Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments... Ha! I am so smart, SMRT! Now I'll go to grad school and feel stupid again for another half-decade or more, hoorah! Our ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 comment... course, not having started applying to grad schools yet I'm getting somewhat ahead of myself. (First link via World ...
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25 Jul 2020: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... whose structure wasn't rotting. [...] Improving local school governance, however, isn't something Washington can really do ... the two classic measures of last resort when I was in high school, were utterly ineffective and even frowned upon. I can't think of a good ...
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11 Jul 2020: Meyers and Briggs, Chew Thoughtfully on Your Toenails!
Whimsy: psychology, quizzes · no comments... their audience. You probably weren't very popular in high school--the joke's on them! You may be a rock star. (via my polar ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... "liberal tradition". It's just a guess, though; in my nerd school education the liberal arts were used only as an ointment to apply after ...
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19 Apr 2020: Crackpot Internet Scientist of the Week
Links: crackpots, electromagnetism · 4 comments... answers to all those pesky unresolved questions your high school physics teacher refused to talk about, like: Q: How can a fridge ...
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11 Apr 2020: Someone Misses Someone Else
Meta: · 1 comment... else who wants to find someone I went to high school with, please put their name as Googlebait in your own semi-coherent ...
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8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps
Personal: · 2 comments... dahling, to post on ideal intellectual communities, grad school, consulting, &c. &c. Because while my job is quite tolerable and ... them both at once. The first path means going to grad school. In what, I'm not quite sure; the word "geostatistics" has been ...
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24 Feb 2020: Petty Consumer Activism
Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments... got out as to how ketchup was counted as a vegetable on school lunch menus? And they only said that the tomato puree counted as one ...
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19 Jan 2020: Counting Dirty Words
Human Fuzzies: Congressional shenanigans, swear words · no commentsWas Congress really expecting a serious court challenge based on the distinction between "ass hole" the two-word phrase, and "asshole" the compound word? They're given distinct entries in the list of words you can't broadcast. I'm surprised the bill didn't ...
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30 Nov 2020: Umami = Love
Human Fuzzies: · 4 comments... yet for a) working to become wealthy or b) going to chef school. But this is not about unfulfilled aspirations, it is about belatedly ...
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18 Oct 2020: Yami, Fearsome Goddess of Mint
Human Fuzzies, Personal: gardening, weather · no comments... everything goes into a coma. The pansies do this high school drama queen thing where they sprawl out as far as their leaves will ...
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12 Aug 2020: Erasing Time
Meta, Politics: California politics, elections · 2 comments... and enough human interest stories to fuel all the high school journalists in the state. In my rational hours, I know we're all just ...
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2 Aug 2020: Housing Markets
Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 commentsSo now that I'm a yuppie, I need a Yuppie House. My job is far away from all the trendy neighborhoods (unless you count San Dimas, which won't be trendy for another couple thousand years) so the ultra-tiny, ultra-expensive IKEA studio is not an option. I'm ...
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14 Jul 2020: And The Internet Melted
Personal: camping, photography · no comments... engineering and try building my dream camera: an old-school fully manual system with digital image capture in the ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... favorite academic blogs, on the emotional effects of grad school. I've identified on an almost therapeutic level with some of it; for the ... I do feel like a quitter for not going to grad school. It's the default option, it's what Caltech grooms us for with its ...
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4 Jun 2020: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks
Personal, Science: · 4 comments... promotional giveaways of the stuff when I was in high school; even then, when I could swill Mountain Dew like a hemophiliac taking ... that was possibly the worst paper I've written since high school. But that's okay - I can flunk paleontology and still graduate. I can't ...
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16 May 2020: Kkore 1: the Stack
Personal: · 4 comments... am I the kind of person that names cars? My old high school pickup didn't have a name; I occasionally tried to refer to it as ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no comments... the biggest twinge of regret for not applying to grad school that I've had so far: It makes no fucking sense to say you're the ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... there was one I used to talk to on my way home from grade school - and I miss them when they're not around. It's one of the shittier ...
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8 Mar 2020: I Love Working
Personal: · no comments... science article. Must graduate. Must acquire a biodiesel school bus, and an electric car small enough to sit in the back of the bus ...
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4 Feb 2020: Uh-Oh
Personal: · 1 comment... I have learned to my delight that teaching at a low-income school will cause my student loans to magically disappear. Perhaps I should see ...
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26 Jan 2020: Link Fest Rama Lama Ding Dong
Links: · 3 comments... usually partaking of the worst of both worlds. My high school journalism teacher used to pull all his bad examples from it. Someone ...
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22 Jan 2020: La Loi de Qui?
Personal, Science: · 1 comment... or it may have been an unfortunate incident in high school French. Regardless, I think I just antagonized half a classful of French ...
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5 Nov 2020: None of the Above
Personal, Politics: California politics, Gray Davis, US party politics · no comments... would be nice. But I'm too exhausted to care, because school has eaten up all my stress and angst and bitterness for the month. Yay ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... nice thing about the first week of school is that there are so many petty tasks—like putting four hundred ...
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24 Sep 2020: O Autumn
Personal: fire, seasons · 1 comment... in seasonless Southern California, and time to go back to school. I've been eating soup, and staring dully at Halloween displays in ...
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12 Sep 2020: Eating Glop
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... I know what's going to happen to me next month. School will start, and physics will stream from my every orifice in great ...
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2 Sep 2020: Labor Day!
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments... Day! Labor Day! Schools are closed and pools are open! Labor Day! Labor Day! Do all your ...
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9 Aug 2020: Don’t Ask Me
Meta, Whimsy: blogular wanking, email, spam · no comments... Waste Experiments in the 2020's or 2020's around Greeley school (now known as anderson school) in Minneapolis, Minnesota? Is this some kind of new spam fad, or ...
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19 Jun 2020: PE Class Revolution
Links: dance, exercise, guest posts · 2 comments... all those years of step aerobics classes. Now, a SoCal school is letting kids play in PE class. Lucky bastards. (But, frankly, it wouldn't have helped me then. I was long out of high school before I learned rhythm and ...
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23 May 2020: Tomorrow Was Yesterday
Personal: Caltech, Ditch Day, utter glee · no comments... bodies onto the walls. I haven't had so much fun since preschool. Not quite the highlight of the day, but slightly more marketable to ...
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20 May 2020: Stack Widow
Meta, Personal: blogular wanking, Caltech, Ditch Day · 3 comments... lives, don't like their classes, or their major, or their school. The average college blog is insipid only when it isn't inane. Which ...
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18 Apr 2020: Someone’s a Seaman
Meta: · 1 comment... a huge hit on the third-string carnie circuit back in high school. There went my one chance at fame and fortune. I like a boat's ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... by the great variance in teaching quality at this school; it's part of what's drawn me to seriously contemplate a career in ...
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5 Apr 2020: Starry-Eyed Youths
Personal: · no comments... college-picking time among the nation's high school seniors. You can tell, because they're all wandering around campus, ...
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30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines
Personal: · 4 comments... altogether too much like 14 years old lately, was my school district the only one to be infested by kids who erased gaping sores ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... education system. I wish they would all leave the field of school administration, become copyeditors for a publisher of cheap romance ...
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21 Feb 2020: snide wastes of time
Links: · 3 comments... a nascent techer-blog. There are many, many things at this school to be angry at, and of all of them, he's picked the humanities ...
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: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... that prompted this today, though, just generalized grad-school-decisionmaking fears and a couple of the comments from yesterday's ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... five or six. But now they are often observed in young preschoolers. Possible explanations, child-development experts say, include earlier socialization with peers in day care and preschool and earlier media exposure. If you've got good references to this ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... which has been linked to poor performance on middle-school math exams - should the board program include dietary ... to work their asses off at a prestigious engineering school. Not being a man, I'm not sure how well this actually works - any ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... but as every college student knows, all profs at all schools are irascible, incoherent, and hate anything that keeps them from ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... that I don't like to write, or that I can't take horrid schoolmarmish pleasure in revising my own work. And I'm used to giving up ...
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23 Jan 2020: Pedagogy
Personal: · no comments... going to start tutoring at a high school down the road. Algebra. I hope I can remember how to explain things ... some of the many hallowed halls in the Los Angeles Unified School District, I must prove myself worthy by filling out some paperwork. ... head stating that I must never be allowed anywhere near a school ever ever again on pain of gigantic civil and criminal penalties, on ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... altogether." The useful thing about going to a small school is that the five of us already knew each other, and with one glance we ...
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28 Dec 2020: More On Malls
Politics: capitalism sucks, malls, urban sprawl · no comments... community again - traditional community centers (churches, schools) have become less central for whatever reason, leaving a lucrative void ...
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10 Dec 2020: goodies from snoogums
Links: · no comments... loves silly shockwave games. Also, still shots from old-school propaganda flicks. Most of 'em are in the public domain, and the rest ...
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7 Dec 2020: fra natbussen
Personal: · no comments... up or I collapse, whichever comes last. If I don't have schoolwork, I'll redesign my web site or play endless dumb games or read fine ...
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30 Nov 2020: Escapist Wonderland
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... of the books yet. I'm tempted, now, because the "middle-school aged misfit is granted wonderous new powers" theme encompassed so many of my happy hours in middle school, along with the "middle-school aged misfit finds a magical critter for a ...
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28 Nov 2020: I’ll take your course schedule and…
Personal: Caltech, course scheduling · no comments... *!#%/!"!#%!!!!!! ? !#&#""" %#%!! +@{[]# $ @! I have much love for the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. Really. No, really, I do, they've given me lots of free food in the past and will probably be giving me lo ...
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20 Nov 2020: liar, liar, dome on fire
Aimless: fire, Iowa City · no comments... that, they burned up a bunch of stuff in my old high school auditorium; and before that, they closed my favoritest ever ice cream ...
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17 Nov 2020: jeg var…
Personal: diary, words · no comments... given myself "lots" of work for the last few dregs of high school. Ha ha. On the other hand, I've been frustrated lately by what I ...
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11 Nov 2020: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... open-road feeling from the summer after I got out of high school, when I'd grab my pickup truck after a day at the assembly line and ...
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9 Nov 2020: frozen hair
Personal: · no comments... community athletic center about 100 meters away from the school building, and on gym days I would run back from class with my still-damp ...
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: can’t sleep, blog will eat me
Personal: · no commentsTuborg lies like a dog. All the ads around town - and there are quite a lot of them - claim that the first snow will fall tomorrow evening at 8:59 PM. Actually, it snowed a little tonight, great big globby flakes that melted as soon as they hit the ground. ...
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27 Oct 2020: Lots of Money
Aimless: · no comments... (ever heard of Moore's law? yeah, that one) gives the school $600 million. Christ. What I love best, as usual, is David Baltimore's ...
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24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... number, Danish CPR number, credit records, elementary school progress reports, the color of my toothbrush, things I did when I was 14 ...
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22 Oct 2020: Supermarkets
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... experiment along those lines from back in the day in grade school, and also parallel experiments with Bailey's and ...
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19 Oct 2020: trains
Personal: · no comments... ago, I had spent about two days there on the classic high school whirlwind tour, so I didn't expect to recognize it at all... but ...
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5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen
Aimless, Personal: · no comments... and not have all my financial aid yanked away from me, school is wonderful; initially, the incredible decentralized-ness of the KU ...
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28 Sep 2020: Rescheduling
Personal: · no comments... me that it would be embarassing to come from a Prestigious School. Maybe it would have been better if I'd had more sleep and less caffeine ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... my very first ever calculus study group back in high school. The 10 Stages of Calculus Problem-Solving 1. Denial - "I don't really ... that sort of thing). It made the teacher laugh... my high school calculus teacher was one of the rare gems who seemed to genuinely ...
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30 Aug 2020: reboot
Uncategorized: dreams · no comments... restoring his life from backup all throughout high school. I politely refrained from mentioning that if I hadn't kept backups of ...
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29 Jul 2020: leftover stuff
Personal: · 1 comment... apparently taken all of Daddy's money and flunked out of school with it. We all had a good chuckle over that one. Meanwhile, I think I ... I'll have three weeks to learn how to order beer before school actually starts. So, yeah. I'm excited. Good ...
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28 Jul 2020: an audience at last!
Meta, Personal: · no comments... the University of Iowa because it's such a great a party school. I wanted to smack them, or at least say something super-geeky about ... who occasionally comes in after us. It's too bad my geekschool flirting skills don't seem to transfer to normal ...
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26 Jul 2020: Red Pop and Hans Kirk’s The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments... Red Pop. I remember being fabulously excited, back in high school, because there was a product that was pop, and that was red, and so they ... gritting my teeth wishing P. would shut up. I went to high school with P. He's one of those congenial, congenitally annoying people, who ...
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24 Jul 2020: I’m a Poser
Personal: · 1 comment... This was going from relative innocence (I was in grade school at the time) to conformity, to apathy, but the principles are basically ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... been single, really, since my freshman year of high school - as soon as one boyfriend left, I magically found another. Or else I ...