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Blind Guy Gets iPhone
I have seen a lot of technology for the blind, and I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary thing to happen to th....
23 Sep 3:21 pm  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Rite of Passage: First RateMyProfessors Entry
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23 Sep 11:02 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Six Apart No More
Dear TypePad bloggers, It's been almost a decade since we started Six Apart. With you, the bloggers and creators, we changed the....
22 Sep 11:54 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Thank you, Reddit! Thank you, Colbert Nation!
Seven anonymous Internet donors just came together as part of the Stephen Colbert "Restoring Truthiness" campaign, and funded my $....
20 Sep 6:04 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
IAMA 109 8th Graders……
Put it up during lunch, and now it's at the top of IAMA. Tomorrow should be interesting... ....
16 Sep 9:50 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Let Them Eat Meat- But Farm it Right
From a review of "Meat- a Benign Extravagance": But these idiocies, Fairlie shows, are not arguments against all meat eating, but arguments....
12 Sep 4:58 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
How Medical Supply Behemoths Hold Back Progress
Engineer invents better syringe after seeing contaminated needle infect doctor with AIDS. Everybody loves it. Why don't we have them today? ....
12 Sep 4:26 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Whiteboard Art Part One: Portraits of a Shackelford
I use individual whiteboards to check my students' comprehension. If they use them well, staying on task and working quickly, I give them a ....
5 Sep 2:11 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
TaskRabbit: One-off Personal Assistants for City Folk
Last night, a friend told me he's been part-timing for TaskRabbit, a service that connects people with free time with people who need stuff ....
1 Sep 4:18 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Human Body and Energy Equilibrium
Heard some woman at the supermarket yesterday obsessing over the number of calories in some crackers. Made me think of this: Let’s say th....
27 Aug 4:58 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
"Sir, You're Just Yelling. You're Not Even Having a Conversation."
Oh lordy...it's like I don't even need the Daily Show anymore. How dare this uppity CNN reporter ask for evidence of the terror-baby conspir....
25 Aug 9:34 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Student Teaching vs. Lead Teaching
Student teaching (at least for TFA folks): "Here's your unit. Make a lesson plan for each objective, then teach one a day. If you want to g....
22 Aug 3:33 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Standing and the Prop 8 Decision
No one, no indi­vid­ual or group, can show that they’re harmed by per­mit­ting gay men and women to marry, while those cou­ples can....
17 Aug 10:15 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Eat, Pray, Spend?
“Live your best life!” Oprah Winfrey intones on her show, on her website, and in her magazine, with exhausting tenacity. Eat kale. Lose ....
10 Aug 11:22 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Ridiculous Baseball Catch By Japanese Dude
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5 Aug 10:53 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter : NPR
Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added things like und....
3 Aug 5:39 pm  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What America Eats in a Year
Interesting...hard to blame meat for the obesity epidemic with numbers like these.   via GOOD ....
3 Aug 3:58 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
If Inception Was About Management Consulting
If you haven't seen Inception yet, get on it. Leonardo DiCaprio takes a taxi to an insidiously nondescript office building. He rides the gl....
3 Aug 1:00 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Coming Home from Teach for America's Summer Institute
I'm writing this from a car on the way up to San Francisco. I just finished Teach for America's intensive five-week training institute, an....
1 Aug 11:59 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Incestuous Dexter (He's Married to Deb!)
Today I learned that the actors playing Dexter Morgan and his sister Debra are real-life hubbie and wife. On that subject, if you're not w....
29 Jul 1:56 pm  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Impact of Kindergarten Teachers on Students' Future Earnings
Students who had learned much more in kindergarten were more likely to go to college than students with otherwise similar backgrounds. Stud....
29 Jul 1:41 pm  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Instapaper Makes Reading Online Content Fun and Easy
A clever young man named Marco wrote an awesome little web service called Instapaper. If you ever find an online article you'd like to read,....
29 Jul 3:54 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
I Guess There's Money to be Made in Blogging After All…
I made something like $70 this year from people clicking on Amazon.com products through my site. The most popular products were Feiyue shoes....
28 Jul 3:02 pm  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
I Got Placed at Aptos Middle School!
I'll be teaching 8th grade Algebra, with an eye toward adapting a high school Geometry curriculum for middle schoolers. Definitely not what ....
28 Jul 6:51 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Valley Girl Contest
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27 Jul 10:14 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Federal Judge Rules Vitaminwater Advertising is a Load of Shi*t
Via Consumerist: By including the suggestion that the product will “keep you healthy” or “help bring about a healthy state of physi....
26 Jul 4:36 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Don't Be Distracted By The Marvelous Beer-Pouring Robot
The real tragedy here is what the Japanese think constitutes a good amount of head. The foam takes up a third of the glass! No one was ever ....
26 Jul 1:47 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Teach for America in the Times
From the New York Times' Room for Debate series: A Times article this week described the stiff competition among graduates from top....
22 Jul 7:09 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Patrick Stewart: 1989 vs 2010
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22 Jul 3:48 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Heh, These Kids Don't Know That I Have No Idea What I'm Doing
My advisor caught me on camera last week. We're figuring out how many sweet potatoes it takes to make a 14-inch diameter pie. I'm at Dor....
19 Jul 1:06 am  from  dshack   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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