People can have very strange reactions when they learn that you earn more than them. They might, for instance, decide that it’s time you started paying for half of their mortgage.
Yo, medieval scribes: no one's going to read the text you so painstakingly lettered if you continue to draw weird and dirty pictures in the margins. Well, I guess you're all dead, so we can't fix this now, can we?
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell have two very different perceptions of magic, but how magical are you? Take this quiz and find out which character you are.
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You just knew that the Wookies would make good organists. Too bad, Bach was not much of an operatic composer. A wookie opera would be something else… Unknown source – as in all over the…
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People have been dying in strange ways forever. Here are some of the weirdest deaths in the past three hundred years.
A Cranky Review of "Teach" - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: A Cranky Review of "Teach" By Nancy Flanagan on September 7, 2013 1:27 PM There was lots of conversation--pre-hype--about the doc/movie Teach on CBS last night. I tried to avoid "judging before watching" syndrome, and kept in mind that people do change their minds, based on evidence (see: Diane Ravitch). So--I watched Teach last night. And yes, like many in the Twitterverse, felt my heartstrings yanked. I saw and warm-bathed in all the soft-focus messages of four earnest young teachers who are totally in it "for the kids." Really. I believed 'em. They're concerned and determined to do their best. They believe they can make a difference. Go for it, guys. We all like a good teacher success story--they're a classic storyline, here in up-by-your-bootstraps America. Teach helpfully included several fictional-teacher clips, from Sidney Poitier to Robin Williams, to prime our emotional pump, in case the real teachers weren't enough. Then, you could see the pre-crafted story arc emerging: • Troubled schools. Poor but deserving kids. Teachers working so very, very hard, caring so very, very much. They're heroes! (And they actually are--so we're hooked into the narrative. We like these young teachers.) • But...bad news: Test scores down! Way down! Plus: Some of these kids aren't sure if they
