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• The Magician King

  By ljd42 on October 11, 2018

  The Magician King is the sequel to The Magicians, which I reviewed on September 1. As the second book in Lev Grossman’s trilogy, it follows closely after book #1 and appropriately leaves the reader hanging, waiting for #3. Darker and more mature than The… Read More ›

• A later start time

  By ljd42 on October 10, 2018

  

  Weston students, parents, and teachers: Is the later start time working? Let me know!

• Feedback from 46 years ago

  By ljd42 on October 7, 2018

  

  Going through some old papers, I came across a summary of student feedback from Relations & Functions, a course I team-taught at Lincoln-Sudbury (L–S). This was more-or-less equivalent to today’s Honors Precalculus, and it’s instructive to consider the similarities and… Read More ›

• Pandas!

  By ljd42 on October 6, 2018

  

  Giant panda overload this week! Earlier in the week came the first episode of Martin Yan’s newly revived TV series, Yan Can Cook. The new series, Spice Kingdom, is described as “a 13-part series that explores the many aspects of how food and… Read More ›

• The cat on the (purple) mat

  By ljd42 on October 5, 2018

  

  Douglas looks so handsome on his purple mat, even if he’s deliberately ignoring the Rubik’s Cube:

• She Was the Quiet One

  By ljd42 on October 4, 2018

  

  Is Odell Academy supposed to be Phillips Exeter Academy? All signs point to that, but there’s no direct evidence. Odell is the site of Michele Campbell’s new novel, She Was the Quiet One, a title that develops new meanings as you continue… Read More ›

• Where to store your rage and keep ire away

  By ljd42 on October 1, 2018

  

  Credit to Nigel Fabb via Arnold Zwicky for this photo of the Metropolitan Rage Warehouse in Cambridge, where you can store your rage and keep it safe from anyone’s ire:

• Urban nature

  By ljd42 on September 30, 2018

  

  What do you see here? Your eyes are probably drawn first to the renovated Baker Chocolate Factory building that dominates the top half of the photo. Then you look at the bottom half and see more urban landscape — some… Read More ›

• Something Wonderful

  By ljd42 on September 28, 2018

  

  You need the subtitle. The full name of the book is Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution, which gives you a pretty good picture of the subject of the book. As I grew up in the ’60s, I was… Read More ›

• Heavenly Creatures

  By ljd42 on September 27, 2018

  

  Wow! Just saw this 1994 film — what took me so long? — and now Heavenly Creatures will clearly be added to the list of my top ten all-time favorite movies (though I’m not yet sure which entry it will displace)…. Read More ›

• A small job

  By ljd42 on September 18, 2018

  

  As you can see, we badly needed a new ceiling in our guest room. We also needed a ceiling light, not to mention a fan. And while we were at it, we also needed a new ceiling and new light… Read More ›

• 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.  

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