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Reblogged from UChicago College Admissions
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (via dietcokeporfavor)
Stop and think each day about one thing your students teach you. How have they made YOU a better person.
Reblogged from Adventures in Learning
Konkret.: Class Maintenance
With Winter Break upon us and most of my fellow college-aged friends scrambling for some sort of employment, I’ve noticed lately a spike in people deciding to try working for ‘Vector Marketing.’ If you haven’t heard of it, Vector Marketing is another one of those ‘multi-level marketing’ schemes,…
Good exposition of the subtle forms of pervasive class privilege.
Reblogged from Konkret.
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Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.
The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”
The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”
— We Originated in the Belly of a Star, NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012. (via amiquote)
Reblogged from THE MADE SHOP
Reblogged from Adventures in Learning
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Rates of travel in 1800. That’s about 6 weeks to Chicago.
(via How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s? | MNN - Mother Nature Network)
Think of this map the next time your flight gets delayed by an hour or two.
Reblogged from Revolutionize Education
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