Twenty Children Screaming
Hey! How you doing?
Illustration above is by artist Ilya Milstein whose illustrations are detailed and lovely.
I wrote a blog post titled "Where My Cynicism About Education Ends."
From MoMath and Wolfram, this history of math website collects a lot of wonderful images. You could probably quibble with some of the text, but overall it looks great.
I especially liked Alan Turing's blueprints for a zeta function calculator.
"Philosophy is conceptual engineering," says Luciando Florini in the opening pages of Philosophy Bites, the book. (Not the podcast.)
My favorite TV show is also my kids' favorite, Bluey. The soundtrack is also awesome, check out "Pool."
Listening to: "Harmonia's Dream," from The War on Drugs.
In 3rd Grade I drew a pair of tangent circles on the board for a problem and moments later I had twenty children screaming "THEY'RE BUTT CHEEKS" at me.
Reading: Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey, a pen name used by a pair of collaborators. I'm surprised more novels aren't written in collaboration. I wonder how they work.
If I call on a boy, I always try to call on a girl next, then a boy, and so on. Does anybody else do this? Or have other self-imposed rules to decide who to call on?
Bye,
Michael