@n_hold I imagine that an attentive audience for that kind of analysis is limited, and would be quite rare outside of the state of Minnesota.
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Ann Waltner
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patiently explaining to my bored indifferent children that the best suburb of Minneapolis is St Paul
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@n_hold Therefore confirming what cats always think--human help is extraneous in every aspect of life, except. perhaps, food, and, perhaps, a warm place to sleep.
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tried to help a cat off a neighbor's roof, in the process it jumped onto another's neighbor's roof then eventually found its own way down
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hung out for a while w/ my across the street neighbors' one year old and their new dog, then ran into a local musician I like very much
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If you are a Minnesota resident 62 years old or older, you may audit a course at any state college or university for free and take a course for credit for $20 a credit. Instructions at link below. onestop.umn.edu/registration/s…
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13yo has suggested that when someone gets married they should have one candle on the cake if it's a first marriage, two if a second, etc. I think this is very funny.
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@LisaDNews Take care of your mom. We all need you, but she needs you the most.
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Hello everyone,
First a brief personal note of regret that I have not been posting as much lately. I've been helping my mom with some health needs - and focusing on our show.
Hoping to step up a little more soon. Mom is on the mend, it's a road but she is a tough, amazing woman.
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How many papers is it reasonable to agree to review per month (when one is not yet in a permanent academic job)? I have had on the order of 25 reviewing invitations in the last month.
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Finally received this in the mail. Very proud to receive the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards from @AsiaSocietyNY @AsiaSociety 🪷
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randomly remembered recently telling students I was born in the 1970s, I forget why it came up. the looks on their faces kinda hurt my feelings.
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@n_hold One of the things that I try to think about is the changing status of "information"--how should we think about teaching now that "information" is at our fingertips. "Information" is not the point, but it's hard to think and analyze without a fairly firm grasp of it.
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related thought: reading and writing do change over time but understanding their changes is muddied by each being closely bound up with (and each being specifically a vehicle for worrying about) issues about which people are generally anxious - class, status, stability etc. Like,
Nate Holdren@n_hold
a minor annoyance in the ongoing AI clusterfuck's that reading and writing are complicated cultural practices done in a bunch of different ways for different purposes tied to different values, often navigated largely implicitly, yet often flattened in a 'one neat trick' kinda way
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🚨🚨 Sirens going off in Minneapolis. Is this an April Fool’s joke or do we have a tornado?!
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Why can't they be about the reading in question, at least as a starting point? Generic questions are hard. You could ask whether the reading in question reminded them of anything else. But it's hard to discuss a reading unless the class has read it.
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If you are in or near the Twin Cities (that'd be Minneapolis and St. Paul) go see The Joy List, by Collide Theatrical Dance. It is, as usual, fabulous. We need to support local arts.
collidetheatrical.org
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If you are a resident of Minnesota and are 62 years old or older, you can register to audit a course at the University of Minnesota for free, or to take it for credit at the cost of $20 per credit. Information as to how to do it at the link below. onestop.umn.edu/registration/s…
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For those of you in the Twin Cities who go to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, there are many great restaurants within walking distance and they need customers now. Today I had a wonderful lunch at Meet Up Noodle on 26th street. meetupnoodle.com
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My son is six, and he can read chapter books but he can’t tie his own shoes.
Any advice?
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@fstflofscholars @Ghitelman @comradesanchez In the state of Minnesota, if you are over 62 you can audit a course at any state university free and take it for credit for $20 per credit.
onestop.umn.edu/registration/s…
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@Ghitelman @comradesanchez CUNY is a precious gem.
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FYI this exists in NYC, for like $80 you can audit an undergrad class at CUNY
My dad is currently studying French Literature and is loving it
🦢@damnidc__
My aunt goes to elderly university for free in China. It is probably the best thing they have don or elderly. She likes it so much. You can take any subject you like, no exam, no certificate, just earning for fun. She's now learning gardening, music, philosophy, and some geopolitics. There are farmers travelling all the way to the school everyday to learn. This is 1000x better than stupid elderly home which basically kill elderly. quickly rather than care.
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@jasonachristian Quite to the contrary. Personal accomplishments, even those of people we don't actually know, are a welcome relief these days. Congratulations!!
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Despite having a full-time job that I like and want to keep, and despite the fact that I'm not very young, I took a chance and applied for a PhD program in film studies, and, well, they accepted me! It feels like a bad time to post personal accomplishments, but I wanted to share.
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@TheEsteemedFox It's always a good idea to cite the translator. Who was the translator of this poem?
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@brianros1 I told students once that they did not have to memorize dates. They got all mixed up about what happened when. I then told them they needed to know the order in which things happened (a statement they agreed with) and that dates were a handy way of keeping track of that.
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It's also not about memorizing dates; being able to put things in a correct order helps students understand how past events fueled the next set of events. I find most emphasis on fact & date memorization silly. But the key is understanding, for example, how what happens in the
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela@nataliapetrzela
The common answer to this is "but we focus on critical thinking, not memorizing lists of dates!" Great. But it is hard to be an independent, critical thinker when you have no idea of how all of these episodes relate to each other in TIME Contributes to a flattening of context
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