Monday, April 2, 2018

@13:30, 4/2/18

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The Learning Network

Earth Day, Poetry Month, Baseball Season and More: Teaching and Learning About Spring With The New York Times

We’ll be taking a semi-break from April 2-6 this year, but we’ve left you with many ideas for celebrating the season.

I had eight inches of light snow this morning.
The trash pickup broke the plow berm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5VVELfWC8

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314

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Food

O Captain! My Captain!

Take the time to make a platter of country captain, or riff off of a new Nigella Lawson recipe for roasted sausages with onions and apples.

I am going to try a simple pene dish.
Tomatoes, onion and Velveta.

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Style

The Unorthodox Matchmaker

Yocheved Lerner-Miller pairs up misfits — the divorced, the middle-aged, the newly religious — in the Lubavitch Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

The article is encouraging on reading.

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U.S.

20 Full Rides to Top Colleges: A Texas Student’s Perfect Sweep

Micheal Brown, now choosing among elite universities like Harvard, Yale and Stanford, said he hoped to one day become a lawyer, perhaps a public defender.

Public defenders always work but do not earn well.

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Times Insider

How a Photographer Got a Rare Shot of James Mattis

Mark Peterson, the photographer who worked on a story for The Magazine about the secretary of defense, describes how he captured the press-averse official.

Good write-up.  Good picture.


Science

At 12, His Science Video Went Viral. At 14, He Fears He Was Too Rude.

Marco Zozaya critiqued those linking vaccines and autism, but he struggles like many science communicators with social media platforms that may favor a style that inflames.

I certainly don't know how to sell the scientific viewpoint.
Wikipedia does it by posting knowledgeable opinion and closing off trolling.  The journals do it by locking pages behind pay walls.

Trolling is a terminal disease.
Public blogs have developed curated comment streams or closed comments.

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Style

All Heated Up

The author recounts her long history with a consistent and undemanding source of warmth: the humble heating pad.

Topical heat works.

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Business Day

Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script

Last month, anchors at local news stations across the country made identical comments about media bias. The script came from their owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Propaganda for Trump style reaction.

It disqualifies Sinclair from journalism.

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Opinion

How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically

The story of Seneca and Nero may show Trump advisers it’s not too late to come to their senses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

A bleak view of reality.   It is closer to correct than most.

Do what you can toward the better.

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U.S.

‘A Bit of Divine Justice’: Trump Vowed to Change Libel Law. But Not Like This.

The president was on the losing side of a libel ruling that could make it easier for victims of sexual misconduct to sue when they are called liars.

There is nothing divine about these decisions.
The facts are recognized and control the form of justice.

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