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MIT offering Knitting for Programmers(cmsw.mit.edu)
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Knitting is an Engineering Exercise(christinelizblog.wordpress.com)
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by slvv 12y ago
Great article you posted, lots to think about. I can really see online footnoting being a great approach for university textbooks (which are often already long), particularly because undergrads seem less likely to be engaging thoroughly wit
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by slvv 12y ago
Erik Kwakkel is awesome. For more on the history of footnotes, check out Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Footnote-A-Curious-History/dp/0674... ) There's also C
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by slvv 12y ago
That's definitely a weird place to file the story, particularly considering the message.
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by slvv 12y ago
Thanks for your reply! I admit that I've spent the last 10 years teaching, TAing, and being a student, and I'm probably a tiny bit skeptical about what it's possible to get students to do, which coloured my initial reaction.
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by slvv 12y ago
That's fair - the intentions of the no-screens policy are really good, and I hope that students do respond favourably and end up getting more out of their classes because of it.
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by slvv 12y ago
"So I don't know what the right answer is. I think a minimal step in the right direction is to encourage people who use computers for other things than work to sit towards the back, and encourage those who want to pay attention to
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by slvv 12y ago
"I’m coming to see student focus as a collaborative process." To me, this statement feels deeply condescending. I would much prefer to treat students as people making their own choices - for good or ill - so that they can deal wi
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by slvv 12y ago
True & Co.'s model is so vastly superior to other intimates companies, in terms of actually working to make sure garments FIT customers. The way they're using data to inform the products they create and offer is really interes
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by slvv 12y ago
This seems to be supported by a lot of evidence, which makes it even more discouraging.
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by slvv 12y ago
I may have missed something, but it seems like this only deals with the potential effect or lack of effect of eating breakfast (or not) on weight loss. What about the effect of eating breakfast on mental alertness, productivity, etc? Are th
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by slvv 12y ago
Is there an alternative that you think is better? Also, is their "version" of feminism a problem since they're so clear about what it is? It doesn't seem like they're hiding their perspective at all, so readers can
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by slvv 12y ago
Awesome - that's totally the response I was hoping for :)
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by slvv 12y ago
Very cool - and reminds me of Jack Monroe's recipes & work in the UK: http://agirlcalledjack.com/
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by slvv 12y ago
> "When communities grow to a certain size, people no longer expect to interact in the future, and thus are more likely to defect – to be petty, mean, aggressive..." Wow. I can't say whether this is true or not, but how de
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by slvv 12y ago
This is a great question - and I'd love to hear people suggestions for how to serve these needs at smaller museums & historical sites with small budgets, too.
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by slvv 12y ago
I totally agree. Of course climate change and its newly announced irreversability is alarming. It's really hard, though, to figure out what immediate, effective action one can take.
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by slvv 12y ago
That can definitely help! I do work with some students who have learning challenges or other issues with writing, physical or otherwise, for whom writing by hand isn't an option. Freewriting is a good idea whether by pencil or by keybo
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by slvv 12y ago
This is a super interesting idea. I work with a lot of undergraduate students who struggle with the writing/editing divide, and I will absolutely be recommending that they try this tool.
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by slvv 12y ago
I'm amazed no one has mentioned The Brain Scoop yet! Natural history, dissections, all kinds of awesome stuff. https://www.youtube.com/user/thebrainscoop
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by slvv 13y ago
I've read the whole, original PNAS article. I have to say, I don't see a major distortion/dilution of it in the submission's linked article.
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by slvv 13y ago
Since the article looks like it's behind a paywall, can you give us an idea of how the information has been diluted, specifically?
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by slvv 13y ago
It's great that a list like this exists, to start, but it would be even better if it provided some info about the educations and backgrounds of each woman listed. That would really help younger women or those not yet involved in startu
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by slvv 13y ago
Well, I don't quite qualify - I have a BA in French and I'm working on a PhD in another humanities discipline - but I disagree pretty strongly with the idea that a physicist could do what a French literature specialist does but no
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by slvv 13y ago
Or, maybe Barbies are way more damaging because they're aimed at children. While celebrity culture and photoshop are hard to escape for adults looking at most media, children are learning what ideal bodies look like not only from those
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by slvv 13y ago
The more realistically proportioned dolls might only seem creepy because we're so accustomed to seeing dolls with exaggerated figures or proportions.
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Ravelry Reaches 4 million Users: Infographic(ravelry.com)
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OpenKnit: Open Source Knitting(openknit.org)
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by slvv 13y ago
The untenured position is really a sessional instructor, which I'm sure also goes by different names, but involves zero job security and extremely shitty pay. It's not a salaried position, it's a "per course you teach th

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