Trained in Sign Language
Hi! It's been too long,
"The purpose of this simulator was to study the subject while walking, jumping or running. Researchers conducted studies of various factors such as fatigue limit, energy expenditure, and speed of locomotion," from NASA's Flickr re the photo above.
Here's an example of what Dylan Kane tries to avoid: “My first period class understands that.” Yeah, I also try to avoid assigning subject-hood to an entire group of students. I especially dislike "we have been studying triangles" or "they asked a great question." Classes don't ask questions, kids do that.
I showed "Factor Graph" to my 4th Graders yesterday but then a bunch of my colleagues got interested in it too. What's the smallest factor graph that can't be made without crossing? Thanks, Play With Your Math for the great problem.
From a review of "When Animals Dream": "[The evidence for dreaming] includes, for example, work on zebra finches whose neural patterns during sleep were exact replicas of neural patterns while learning to sing, chimpanzees trained in sign language talking in their sleep, and cats physically acting out their dreams when disabling brain areas that inhibit motor activity."
Americans really want controversial topics to be taught to high school students but not elementary students. From a survey conducted by Morgan Polikoff and colleagues at USC.
"The median center of the US population in 2020 was +38.297627,-087.561798, which is a Toyota factory complex in Princeton, Indiana," there's a fact for you from Demographic Fact a Day.
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith," what you've got right there is a perfect joke, reminds me of Norm Macdonald's idea that the perfect joke would have an identical setup and punchline. Also reminds me of rapper Y.O.D.'s line, "I’m the rap Dame Lillard, you’re the rap Dame Lillard," explained here.
I'm a fan of whole-class feedback, here's how an English teacher does it, here's my take on it in an old post titled "Feedbackless Feedback."
I am deeply involved with the new Titus Andronicus album, particularly the track "Bridge and Tunnel."
B.F. Skinner says: "Let us bring behaviourism back from the Devil's Island to which it was transported for a crime it never committed, and let psychology become once again a behavioural science." Sit down, B.F.
Be well,
Michael