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• Learning in depth: high school SCOTUS blog

  By ljd42 on September 16, 2018

  If you didn’t listen to the NPR report Why a High High Schooler Started Covering The Supreme Court, on this morning’s Weekend Edition Sunday, you should definitely do so! Do it right now, before you forget. OK, now that you’re… Read More ›

• Singular “they”

  By ljd42 on September 15, 2018

  

  I am not on Twitter. If I were, I would have to re-retweet this tweet, originally from Kory Stamper, already retweeted by Gretchen McCullogh: She’s a little less temperate than I am, but… yeah. And do read her book —… Read More ›

• Awesome!

  By ljd42 on September 13, 2018

  

  I can’t help keeping track. Four restaurant meals ago, at the Menotomy Grill, our young server said “Awesome!” four times during our meal. I foolishly thought that would be some kind of record. Lower Mills Tavern was better: just two… Read More ›

• A college that I did not get into

  By ljd42 on September 12, 2018

  

  Four days ago, I wrote a post about an episode  of This American Life titled “How I Got Into College.” Actually, my post just contained a couple of small quotations, and I pointed out that they had nothing to do with how I got… Read More ›

• How to succeed in high-school math by paying attention to stereotypes.

  By ljd42 on September 10, 2018

  At the high-school level, a student can’t be expected to understand the concepts behind the math; you’re just expected to be able to do the math. So says a commenter from Old Field, NY, objecting to a wonderful article in… Read More ›

• This American Life: “How I Got into College”

  By ljd42 on September 8, 2018

  

  No, this post is not about how I got into college — it’s the title of last week’s episode of This American Life, which I have just been listening to. I’m not going to write about the bulk of the episode here; I’ll save… Read More ›

• This is a democracy. Whoever gets the most votes wins… right?

  By ljd42 on September 5, 2018

  

  Here we are, one day after primary elections in Massachusetts, and we see that whoever got the most votes in each race won. Right? Well, it’s not so simple. In the first place, one tenet of democracy is majority rule,… Read More ›

• All or Nothing

  By ljd42 on September 4, 2018

  

  Culture. Literature. Memoirs…. Are they all based on Folklore and Mythology? A classmate of mine majored in that field — or should I say it was his “field of concentration” rather than “majored”? I always thought it was surprisingly specific as a… Read More ›

• Vote!

  By ljd42 on September 3, 2018

  

  If you live in Massachusetts, be sure to vote tomorrow (Tuesday, 9/4) in the primaries! In most races in this state the primary is more important than the general election.  

• A Penny for Your Thoughts

  By ljd42 on September 2, 2018

  

  “A penny for your thoughts.” Does anyone say that anymore? Probably not. Part of being retired is that I get to do more sitting and thinking than usual. (“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits,” to quote… Read More ›

• The Magicians

  By ljd42 on September 1, 2018

  

  No, not the television show, which I’ve never seen. Just the eponymous novel it’s based on. And no, I haven’t yet read the two subsequent novels in Lev Grossman’s trilogy, so there’s nothing about either of them here either. You’ll… Read More ›

• Wear Red for Ed

  By ljd42 on August 29, 2018

  

  Today would be our first day back. Although I am no longer in the classroom, I still Wear Red for Ed to support public education.

• Is attention to detail important?

  By ljd42 on August 25, 2018

  

  You probably haven’t heard of Mark Rooney. He’s running for a seat on the Governor’s Council against long-time incumbent Chris Iannella — who may also be unknown to you, even though his family has been in Boston politics for many… Read More ›

• Did you know that Boston is 53% non-white?

  By ljd42 on August 24, 2018

  

  I like this store, but…  

• Arrival

  By ljd42 on August 23, 2018

  It has been nearly two years since I’ve seen Arrival, so why am I just now getting around to writing about it? I have no idea why, but it just happened that way. Anyway, I couldn’t resist this movie, partly (largely?) because… Read More ›

• The Industry, Visit #3

  By ljd42 on August 14, 2018

  

  Third time’s the charm, right? That’s what they say. Well, this was something of the reverse situation. Night before last was the third time that Barbara and I had dinner at The Industry. I had already written enthusiastic reviews of the… Read More ›

• What happened to our rear window?

  By ljd42 on August 13, 2018

  

    We walked out to the driveway this morning, and this is what the rear window of our car looked like. How did that happen? We do have a large spruce tree that hangs over the car, but no large… Read More ›

• How to subscribe

  By ljd42 on August 12, 2018

  A couple of my regular readers have asked me how to subscribe to this blog, so that they will be automagically notified whenever a new post appears. WordPress makes this process very simple: in the lower right corner of each… Read More ›

• Eighth Grade

  By ljd42 on August 11, 2018

  

  Show of hands: Who wants to live through eighth grade again? I don’t see very many hands there. By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham’s all-too-real coming-of-age movie. Billed as a comedy, it’s mostly uncomfortable and… Read More ›

• Who on earth counts in base six?

  By ljd42 on July 21, 2018

  All cultures count in base ten, because humans have ten fingers. That’s common knowledge — so common that it isn’t even true. It is, of course, true that most cultures count in base ten, with some obvious and well-known exceptions… Read More ›

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