My friend said “chocolate and cherries with a simple frosting” when I asked if what kind of cake he’d like for his birthday. Slivering the chocolate was the first step in chocolate genoise cake. I believe I will slice the cake in half, make cherry mousse to fill it, and then glaze the whole [...]
Once upon a time, I worked at a school that took teaching seriously, where we put time into creating thoughtful, authentic curriculum that engaged the human beings sitting in front of us and working with us. We cared about test scores as one of many validations that we were doing something right, but we [...]
I’m stealing this video from Assorted Stuff, who, unlike me, has mastered the art of embedding video. It’s some calm reasoning on climate change and risk management - not new, I had a college professor, Steven Schneider, who was all about this kind of analysis and that was 10 years ago - but worth watching [...]
I’m more about process and skills than facts, especially given that for many of my students, I’m really or practically their first science teacher, and I’d rather lay the foundation of skills to help them succeed in future science classes than pound their heads with details to memorize. But I have to say, I’m a [...]
1. I originally became vegetarian because of the horrendous environmental impact of large-scale production of meat. Lately, I’ve strayed a little - though I still eat meat less than twice per month - but reading this article brought me back to my original commitment to vegetarianism:
To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand [...]
triple sifter, oven thermometer, candy thermometer, metal mixing bowls, springform cake pans, this dress (the purple one), new shoe rack, poster frame, memoir/essay writing class at 92nd St. Y, guitar lessons, tickets to Paris, more gym clothes, a downtown apartment, someone to invest in my (hypothetical) (hip uptown) bakery, time, counter space, a great stereo, [...]
On my flight to San Francisco, I saw a kid carrying one of the much-blogged-about XO laptops of the One Laptop Per Child project. I’ve been skimming people’s posts about this project for, what, a year or two now, generally thinking that there are lots of things kids in developing countries probably need more [...]
I get this email in my flickr inbox, asking if my photos can be used by a group fighting Ontario’s ban on clotheslines. Those who like the smell of clothing whipped dry by the breezes and who appreciate the energy savings therein are fighting the ban. I happen to think clotheslines are beautiful.
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It’s such a hippie word, but a good one: to live consciously. I always return from California with a renewed commitment to this idea, because many of the people I know there make daily choices that prioritize the many things that can make them happier, not just busier. Krista explores similar issues while quoting an [...]
We were in it, today. I split the kids up, a few weeks ago, into an RCX and an NXT team, and pitted them against each other to tackle a challenge: make a robot that can go around the sides of one of our tables as close to the edge as possible, without falling [...]
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