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I haven't left. No terrible tragedy has befallen me. I haven't dropped out of society to become a hermit. I just haven't posted in quite a long while. Things have not been idle here, though. The school year has started off nicely. I've been teaching myself some...
The shot heard ’round the doctor’s office
Some people have asked me how my back is doing. Here's an update. After the whirring and thumping of the MRI machine, sitting still for close to an hour (so long I was numb in spots by the end), I got to see the pictures. It indeed looked like a slipped disk. Those...
Cassini and Huygens
Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit (AP). AP - The international Cassini spacecraft threaded a gap between two of Saturn's dazzling rings late Wednesday and entered orbit around the giant planet, completing one of the mission's most critical maneuvers more than...
Aspirations
NASA Lags in Shuttle Patch Development (AP). AP - When space shuttle flights resume, the astronauts will have putty and other filler to repair cracks and small gashes in the wings, but they will not be able to patch a hole as big as the one that doomed Columbia, NASA...
The bad behavior trap
As a teacher, it can be easy to find yourself in "corrective mode" in your classroom, getting after students when they are misbehaving or not attending. The very best teachers I know are the ones who add "catching students being good" to the mix. Children will seek...
Ronald Reagan
I was a teenager during the Reagan Revolution. I knew then that there was something extraordinary about our 40th president. His policies were straightforward and completely consistent with his belief that people knew better how to run their lives than career...
Sugar-water addiction
Okay, there are a lot of issues here: generating funds for schools, nationwide obesity, teaching children nutrition, and more... Taking Candy From Pupils? School Vending Bill Says Yes. The State Assembly has passed a bill that would severely limit what could be sold...
For openers….
How often is a novice chess player honored by having his analysis of an ongoing game published? As often as he likes ... if he has a weblog.... The following are the opening moves of a game I've just started with an old college buddy who lives a long way away. We're...
Common sense
I'm putting the finishing touches on my grades now! Tomorrow is the last contracted day of the 2003-04 school year, and I'm bringing things to a dignified close. Dignified. Then I read this story. I am speechless. I find it embarassing that people in my profession...