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Dear Reader, There’s this meme, featuring a light switch titled “how my brain works,” with the words “utterly obsessed” at the top of the switch and “uninterested” at the bottom. That, dear Reader, is how my interests work much of the time. Do anyone else’s interests swing like a pendulum? At the time of this... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I recently wrote a post about all that public school does not prepare students for, including important emotional development and life skills (more here). Today, on a more positive note, I would like to share some of the obscure knowledge that I did learn (and actually retained) from my public-school education. Marfan Syndrome... Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, If you went through the U.S. public school system, at a young age, you were probably led to believe that knowing the order of the planets was rudimentary to your education. As an adult, you probably still know that Mercury comes first, then Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (and also... Continue Reading →
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