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Merrick Garland Admits to Cheating at Scrabble Once

Garland, who recently said that he was “still available” to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, choked back tears as he confessed to the “disgraceful” incident.

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Three Things Top Performing Students Know That Their Peers Miss

Often the students earning the best grades in class aren't smarter, they're just working more efficiently.

Biggest tip:  One of biggest differences between top students and everyone else was that when they study, they take practice tests. Only 11 percent of students do this, but they perform better because they are studying in a way that goes beyond memorizing material. On the flip side, most students report studying by making notes, re-reading notes, writing out notes or cramming. All these ways of studying emphasize rote memory.

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The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2018 prize, which celebrates t

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Should Students Listen to Background Music While They Read?

On September 15 I tweeted about a new meta-analysis that examines the impact of auditory distraction on reading. It’s an issue of broad concern, as many of us read at work in noisy office...

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My department chair just asked me a most important question, “What are you learning?” Why don’t leaders ask that question more often?

Penny Kittle

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8 ways I practiced mindfulness this year

Mindfulness has become a buzzword in schools over the past few years. Many schools have hired mindfulness professionals to work with their students and faculty. According to scientist and meditatio…

This format for a blog is cool.  Not “things you can do” but how a big idea has influenced you in different ways.  Formative assessment?

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In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.

Charlie Munger

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Saturday night and Professor HotDog is in the DJ booth.

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A goal that isn’t too important makes you live in the moment, and still gives you a driving force. This driving force is a way to get around the fact that we will all die and there is no real point to life.

But with the ASG there is a point. It is not such an important point that you postpone joy to achieve it. It is just a decoy point that keeps you bobbing along, allowing you to find ecstacy in the small things, the unexpected, and the everyday.

What happens when you reach the stupid goal? Then what? You just find a new ASG

Tamara Shopsin

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Steve Jobs

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The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Seamus Heaney

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How to Write a Haiku Poem

A haiku (俳句 high-koo) is a short three-line poem that uses sensory language to capture a feeling or image. Haiku poetry was originally developed by Japanese poets. They are often inspired by nature, a moment of beauty, or poignant exp...

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How to Write a Sonnet

Though as a general rule, the sonnet is defined as having 14 lines and an iambic pentameter meter, there's a significant difference between the two most common forms of the sonnet: the Shakespearean (aka English) and Petrarchan (aka...

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Media Bias Chart, 3.1 Minor Updates Based on Constructive Feedback

So why is it time for another update to the Media Bias Chart? I’m a strong believer in changing one’s mind based on new information. That’s how we learn anyway, and I wish people would do it more often. I think it would lead to nicer online discussions and less polarization in our politics. Perhaps

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An Ode to Being Old

On the harder-to-measure benefits of age and experience