A Tendency to Lay Bare
Oh hey, I didn't see you there! Here's what I've got:
I added more materials to the worked examples site, most recently a calculus mistake/example activity.
Harris Cooper, on homework: "It should be one of several approaches we use, along with soccer and the scouts, to show our children that learning takes place everywhere." I love the idea that homework should serve this function, though it's also pretty far away from reality. The quote is from Cooper's short and punchy book, "The Battle Over Homework."
Ezra Furman has new music! I think she is currently enrolled in rabbinic school, and you can see a nice shot of her Tehillim halfway through. My favorite Ezra Furman is still "Take Off Your Sunglasses."
The new album from Big Thief is indeed stuffed with gorgeous songs. "Little Things" and "Sparrow" are my current favorites. My favorite favorite Big Thief track is "Not", whose intensity scares me.
"As history has a tendency to lay bare, being a nice man and being a good man are not necessarily the same thing." From Elizabeth Nelson's interview with P.G. Wodehouse's biographer. It's about the time when Wodehouse was captured by the Nazis, granted freedom of movement within Germany, then cheerily went on Nazi radio to issue broadcasts to his fans in America.
Elizabeth Nelson herself is a true inspiration. She holds down a day job in education policy, has a thriving side gig as an incredibly sharp essayist, and leads the rock outfit "The Paranoid Style." Here is their song "Exit Interview with P.G. Wodehouse" on the whole Germany episode.
This week I was reading humorist Mike Sacks' "Passing on the Right." It's a fake memoir from a Gutfield!-esque right-wing comedian, creep, and failure. It's not, umm, clean comedy, but the punches land.
From Random Munroe on twitter, it's Wikitrivia, a timeline game that algorithmically draws on wikipedia entires. (Timeline, the card game, is popular in our home.)
Why is the intro to The Beatles' "Drive My Car" so rhythmically confusing? I think I understand this guy's answer.
I definitely didn't fully understand "Dynamics of the Circumcenter Map" but those sure are some very pretty images he creates.
Sincerely,
Bye!