April 28, 2018

Earth Week 2018

Oh, did you guys not know about Earth Week?  It’s like Earth Day, but longer. Disclaimer: I actually sort of thought I made it up, but it’s mentioned on this Wikipedia page, so it must be legit. (You just have to scroll down a little). We celebrate Earth Week instead of Earth Day at my school for several reasons: Earth Day is sometimes on a weekend and it’s difficult to make the children come to school. (For example, this year Earth Day was on a Sunday.) It allows us to have more events and raise awareness among our students, the future leaders of tomorrow. Someone in school administration thought it…

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January 9, 2016

Charlie Hebado

 Year in Review 2015

It’s hard to believe it has been a year since the Charlie Hebado shootings in Paris.  Looking back, it feels like the shooting was the beginning of a hectic, shocking year of world events.  Find a short list below. (You classy, academic types can read the all about it on The Atlantic website). Important 2015 Wold Events SpaceX Lands Rocket Successfully Makes Reuse Possible. (12-22-2015, 10 Records)Climate Change Deal Reached by about 200 Countries. (12-13-2015, 23 Records)Paris terrorist attack, hundreds dead. (11-13-2015, 35 Records)Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai. (10-30-2015, 22 Records)Russia intervenes Syria civil war. (10-01-2015, 55 Records)Flowing liquid water found on Mars. (09-25-2015, 12 Records)Migrant crisis of Europe. (08-30-2015, 114 Records)Earthquake 7.9 Magnitude hits Nepal. (04-24-2015,…

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September 7, 2015

Hope for a Monday

 Environmental Change

I’m constantly searching for news that will give me hope for a Monday. Lately, I’ve found it in the posts on “Wait But Why?”. It’s changing my life.  The latest series of articles (on Tesla Motors and Space X) have given me a naive, college-freshman-level of hope about the state of the world. Definitely enough to get through your average Monday. Call me a dreamer, but I find hope in positive environmental change. It started in college. Granted, for me, college happened in Boulder, Colorado. It’s sort of a ‘positive environmental change’ mecca. We launched all kinds of campaigns. Environmental campaigns, eradication-of-world-hunger campaigns, Earth Day campaigns, stop-cutting-down-the-rainforest campaigns, pay-more-attention-to-my-campaign campaigns,…

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March 16, 2014

Datafication

Let’s talk about datafication. Statistics.  Moniters.  Metrics.  Whatever you want to call it, our society is rapidly becoming obsessed with crouching data. At work, we feed productivity numbers into a machine to track our progress.  WHAT progress, you may ask?  Well, don’t worry about it–if the numbers are green/orange/turquoise/whatever color you set to a positive collation on your spreadsheet, you’re making progress. At home, we get e-mail updates from social media websites, comparing our ability to type nonsensical satire into the internet with the ability of everyone else in the world. I got an email from Facebook last week about my SOCIAL METRICS.  So, my social relationships should not be…

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