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The following article appeared in The New York Times, June 8, 2026. Mr. Polakow-Suransky is President of the Bank Street College of Education in New York City Last year, I visited a seventh-grade math classroom in a public school in the...
Not many photos exist of Catcott after the line closed on 6 March 1966 with the rest of the former S&DJR apart from a couple of stubs. But here we are at the end of June 1967 as a demolition train waits patiently at the crossing for the...
Murder in Purple and Gold – Lindsey Davis Flavia Albia investigates the murder of a promising young charioteer and we learn about Roman chariot racing: the teams, the fame and the fans. Parallels with Formula 1 and Premier League...
One day last week I decided to return to the beaver swamp to see if I could get some better shots of the rose pogonia orchids that grow there. It was a very windy and changeable day with clouds and sun, and rain possible in the...
Obviously all any of us can talk about is the heatwave. Oooof! I am very grateful for aircon in the office, and just about surviving the nights (even Hargreaves the cat has decided that sleeping under the duvet, on my legs, is no longer...
We are advertising a 3 year postdoctoral position at the University of Western Australia to work at the interface of finite geometry and Ramsey theory. The project is led by John Bamberg at UWA, Sam Mattheus at Vrije Universiteit...
I recently scanned a batch of slides from Florida's Magic Kingdom, date-stamped "November, 1982" - over 40 years old! - and while they are a little bit on the dark side, it gives them a certain dramatic atmosphere that I find to be...
Beasts, chevrons, and scrollsI apologise to any readers who have been frustrated at my previous post, which illustrates a notable Norman church but discusses the flowers in the churchyard. If that’s a little perverse for an architecture...
I recently showed you Carcassonne's Castle and briefly introduced the city:Carcassonne CastleYou may have already heard of Carcassonne, located in the Southwest region of France. In short, it’s a walled medieval city that became...
AbominationYear is only about halfway done and I'll say it: Adrian Chiarella's Leviticus is the best horror of the year. I mean-- something better might come in October (Eggers' Werwulf comes out December), but can't imagine what that...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got fruit lager, TV ads and AK. We don’t often put product launches in this top slot which we reserve for news but this piece about Brixton...
Source Still shot of a Bald Eagle capturing a Heron for its lunch in Glenwood, NS. Wow, I didn’t know they would do this. Hopefully, not fake.
@simonmaechling wrote: We don't have an information problem. We have a scientific literacy and trust problem. I agree. Kids learn science as a set of established facts, formulas, and historical discoveries. Best case is they come away...