Category Archives: Science & Tech

Sciency stuff. Techy stuff. I like it all.

For whom the phone rings

Categories: Science & Tech

It better not ring for me. I hate the phone. Hate. … IF I answer. Keep reading

Unplugged – The follow-up

Categories: Education, Science & Tech, Work

The first assignment asks the students to try out the theories of classical and operant conditioning on themselves. … For the second assignment they have to list twenty behaviors they do in a single day and then analyze why they did them. … Both of these assignments relate to my unplugged week last week. Keep reading

Going unplugged (sort of)

Categories: Education, Life, Science & Tech

Two news articles this past week caught my attention. The first was on the NPR website about how a “University declares a week without social media.” … The second article was in the BBC titled “How to disconnect from your online life.” … Keep reading

Starry Nights

Categories: Happy Things, Science & Tech

Cleaning out my saved files I found a bunch of Astronomy Photograph of the Day photos that I really liked but hadn’t gotten around to sharing yet. So here we go. Keep reading

Now for the News

Categories: Education, Folks, News, Random, Relationships, Science & Tech

Changing times. Tetris. Postcards. Creativity. Texting & spelling. Scary music. Information addiction. True humor. Dying languages. Musicians and language. Talking stuff. Flying time. Keep reading

A sink and an overhead?

Categories: Education, Science & Tech, Work

The strangest part is actually the room I’m teaching in. … But then it has a sink, with no paper towels so I’m not sure what to do with that. And it has an overhead projector. … Welcome to the 21st century folks! Keep reading

First Impressions – Electonically

Categories: Science & Tech, Venting

If 90% of face-to-face communication is nonverbal, a good chunk of on-line communication is how the words are presented and not just the words themselves. Keep reading