The Gates Foundation wants to give bonuses to good teachers and students. Boston union says no, you have to play nice and share.http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091118union_blocks_teacher_bonuses/  Calgary parents negotiate no homework contract with school boardhttp://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/11/18/calgary-homework-school-students.html And Minnesota dad speaks only Klingon to his son for three years.http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/11/dinkytown_dad_s.php I’m thinking the kid who’s dad speaks Klingon has the best […]

    With a tag-line like “the world is thinking” Fora.tv might best be described as youtube for eggheads. The site features massive and growing amounts of video content drawn from lectures, interviews, discussions and appearances by intellectual types on topics ranging from science, technology, politics, business, the environment and culture.  Although you won’t find […]

The ol‘ professa, Noam Chomsky, doesn’t really get the credit he deserves. Superficial encounters with his work, either sympathetic or critical, seem to dominate most perspectives of it, and I think there’s an unwarranted “Chomsky-fatigue” simply because they guy has been around so damned long. Regardless, I’ve watched this mean carry on debates in french, […]

An important research paper on the relationship between Count Von Count (yes, that Count) and math abilities in women.