Sunday, March 30, 2014

Tale of Two Slopes

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USLE: A=R•K•LS•C•P This handful of letters ruled my life during my last year of graduate school. I used them in thousands of calculations ...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Crop Cash

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"We are faced with two possible futures. One is a diversity of crops, of cultures, and of cuisines that can inhabit ecosystems sustain...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Crash Landing

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I am part of a national, online community that is pushing back against high-stakes testing and the rapid rollout of the Common Core. This ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Resisting the Education Oligarchy

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NOTE: This is no ordinary blog post. It has two action items, a provocative video, and an uplifting radio piece. Faced with a national edu...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Project Runway

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The following article and map are reposted directly from WNYC, which has analyzed possible landing sites for Malaysian Air Flight 370, which...
Friday, March 07, 2014

Modern Not Advanced

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During our EarthView program today, we applied an array of geospatial technologies to find lunch. At the suggestion of one of our hosts, we ...

Galloping Unicorns

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The pink unicorns are rampaging again! The U.S. Federal Reserve had some good news today: household wealth in the United States increas...
Monday, March 03, 2014

Voxillology

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The Oscar season led New York Times  writer Daniel Nester to review the year's film offering, and in watching American Hustle , he noti...

Textual Resistance

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A couple of years ago, I acquired an Android phone -- what I call a semi-smart phone -- just because I sometimes found it difficult to ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

R.I.P. Pete

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Today we lost Pete Seeger, one of the great environmentalists of several generations. Just as the " STEM to STEAM " bandwagon is m...