Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Tena, Napo, EcuadorThis afternoon was my last time teaching the kids at the Barrio Amazonas rural community. After the teac (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
AbelardAbelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story (Read More)
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Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
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Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world warThe friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student da (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs:
Yves Paul Epelboin is the Director of IT for Teaching and Learning at the Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie in Paris, France. In this ten minute podcast, he shares some cultural insights with Marilu Goodyear about European an (Read More)
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When I look over the PyCon 2010 talk list, I'd like to be at about half of them (a physical impossibility, until I master self-multiplexing). Still, these are the ones that I'll move heaven and earth to be at. What about yo (Read More)
Huffington Post:
When children are helped to observe the lifespan of things, whether it is pets, people, or possessions, it helps them to gradually develop an understanding of the concept of lifetime. More on Death & Dying (Read More)
I Will Teach You To Be Rich:
I’m always on the lookout for “hidden gems,” or people who are doing remarkable work that the whole world hasn’t caught on to, yet. Today, I asked my friend Cal Newport to illustrate how he completely dominates as a post-doc (Read More)
MSNBC:
Nov. 20: Teaching values to your children starts at home by being a solid example for them. Family therapist Dr. Jenn Berman has tips for putting family first and ways to instill good qualities in your kids. (Today Show) Toda (Read More)
L.A. Times - National News:
The economic stimulus package draws new scrutiny. Are its numbers 'propaganda' or coding errors? Hundreds of new jobs in phantom congressi (Read More)
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I favorited a YouTube video: Unknown ManSpeaks To The WorldSucking Your TrustA Trap In Every WorldWar For TerritoryWar For TerritoryChoice ControlBehind PropagandaPoor InformationTo Manage Your AngerWar For TerritoryWar For T (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Progressives who were paying attention breathed a sigh of relief and gratitude when President Obama left abstinence-only funding out of the 2010 budget. Finally, we had a more reality-based approach to human sexuality reflect (Read More)
Engadget:
After baptizing the remaining HD DVD faithful, Warner has moved on to teaching new Blu-ray converts the five pillars of faith with a trade-up program. Send in your old DVDs (just the box art won't cut it this time around, bet (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The Russian darts player on life as a woman in a man's world, learning to drive and being escorted to the oche by James BondHello Anastasia and how are you on this crisp Autumnal morning? I'm fine thank you for asking.Are you (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day.Patricia Gill has insurance for her family but wound up with a $17,000 lawsuit from the hospital after (Read More)
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog:
Leslie Whitaker, a guest blogger for Wired Campus, is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Previously she worked as a reporter for Time magazine.My first experience with blogging’s (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
A day after the district education officer indicted the institute's art teacher, for "polluting young minds", the probe report also accused the school of teaching kids cyber crime. (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.Technically, artists who strive for a high resolution level of detail in painting or sculpture are called “ (Read More)