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Morning Feature (TWLTW): * * *
Of all the hobbies responsibilities indulged in accepted by the BPI faculty and administration, including the game where the underwear goes flying weekly planning conference and drinking reflecting on...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): This is intelligence?
Welcome to Morning Feature’s Tuesday morning feature, Things We Learned This Week. The course is open-enrollment, with no exams or homework, optional attendance, and hugs for all. Our only request is...
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Morning Feature: This is intelligence.
Yesterday, we braved the rough waters of politics, elitism, and intelligence. We found that there have been some very influential players at work, men who measured skulls, men who measured performance...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Club for "growth" (+poll)
And now, for a break from the endless river of anti-Liebermania (completely justified, but a little overwhelming after a while) washing over us, a little meditation on growth...No, not that Club for...
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Morning Feature (TWLTY): A Year's Worth of Learnin'
Why does each year seem much shorter when we look back on it than when we are looking forward to it?I think part of that dynamic is expectation, we begin each year with certain expectations, and with...
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Morning Feature (TWLTD): What We Learned This Decade
Hail fellow travelers! Ol' Professor Crackpot Caractacus has been off tending to family and friends for the past few days, and is glad to be back to share a few thoughts with the assembled faculty and...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Let's Get Emotional
Wow! It feels like terra firma already, this new year/decade! Hard to believe it is only a few days old, yet here we are already forming new routines (anyone joining me in eating a healthy salad every...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Westen's Brain Pt. 1
Let's begin this Tuesday morning's Morning Feature special feature with a question. Ok, two questions. An easy one, and a hard one. First, the easy one:Which came first, the chicken or the egg?...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Ninjas or Nabobs?
When I was in 8th grade, I was bullied. A person I had known for years followed behind me every day between 3rd and 4th periods and either: Knocked my books out from under my arm (no bags allowed in...
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Yesterday I wrote a diary for the Morning Feature seriesabout how the integration of emotional and rational appeals are the best method for communicating Democratic and progressive ideals, values,...
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Morning Feature (TWLW): Podcasts and Pages Read
Just to prevent the impression that the only research studies sponsored by the BPI Dept. of Neuroholdemodality depend on Drew Westen's The Political Brain, or Dr. Lakoff's diary writing, Professor...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Week In Review
You know how some weeks feel like months? Well, this week had enough crammed into it to last a year. A short walk through only a few of the events of the last seven days reveals...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Testing Gone Wild?
The very word "gifted" is inherently problematic and the title "re-gifted" is something no self-respecting gift would probably want for itself.The label "gifted," however, is one that few parents would...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Sources
There are many, many questions one might hear in the course of an average day. As an educator and student, questions are near and dear to me. I'm even taking a graduate course this semester focusing on...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): "YOU'RE NOT HELPING ME IMPROVE!!!"
I was once responsible for an academic department tasked with providing services for fast, deep, and often emotional learners (my personal working def. of "gifted"). One of my specific duties was...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Ethics in 8 (not so) Easy Steps
A week ago Monday, Robert J. Sternberg (more famous for his triarchictheory of intelligence) spoke at Teachers College on the relationship between wisdom, morality, and ethics.Yesterday, the NYT...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): "Are You Happy, Daddy?"
A couple of weeks ago, our daughter (3 years old) started asking me a question: "Are you happy, Daddy?"This could be adorably cute, except for one thing. She only asks it after doing things that...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Harold, Liz, and Aunt C. 3 People I Now Know More...
Each week I receive New York Magazine the old fashioned way, thanks to my little brother. This past week, it was full of revelations about Henry Ford Jr., Lizzie Cheney, the New York City earthquake...
View ArticleHELP OH-16 Vote "YAY" on HCR!!! Action, Please!!!
Perhaps you've heard of Canton, OH. One of the most hotly contested, and evenly drawn/balanced political districts in the nation, may play a pivotal role in the HCR endgame.John Boccieri has resisted...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Canton, OH = Bellwether Once Again
Despite Martin Q. Blank, Ye Ole Professor Crackpot Caractacus went home last week, to beautiful Stark County, Ohio. It's always funny-strange when I see my hometown in the NYT, or on MSNBC, or CNN, or...
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Morning Feature: HCR Law, Part III - Non-Cynical Saturday (Non-Cynical Saturday)
NCrissieB is off this morning, hopefully sleeping in, or raking it in (I've heard Chef and Janitor can be talked into a game faculty meeting at nearly any hour). In any case, as we all need to, she's...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Fred and the Big Neon Lights
Turns out, Fredhas been with us for a very, very long time.This semester, I'm a teaching assistant for the Columbia Dept. of Anthropology chair in one of those lecture classes with 200+ students. The...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): $$$ In (Gifted) Education, Too Much or Not Enough?
Many of us who observe public policy, and public reaction to it, might be discouraged by public opinion polls finding Americans believe 23% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, when less than 1%...
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Please forgive the late post...I developed a fever yesterday, respiratory infection from a seasonal allergy. I think I was weak from working on school projects all weekend without sleeping much, they...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Some thoughts on 4-19
"To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil. They are forces that...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Follow the Money
There has been some discussion about whether the Tea Party movement is a grassroots or astroturf attempt at influencing politics. I think it's a mix of both, but apparently there is no longer any doubt...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Let's Get Critical
Welcome to BPI's open-enrollment, tuition-free, extra-hyphenated (and caffeinated) Tuesday morning celebration of Things We've Learned This Week (TWLTW).On the syllabus today is an attempt by your...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Technologies of Foucault
Just over a week ago I was in a class with a woman from France. We were discussing Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, when she said this, "You know, for a country that so prides itself on freedom,...
View ArticleMorning Feature (TWLTW): 1 day early, ignore me until tomorrow!
Human error! Human error!I posted a day early, will repost tomorrow.My apologies to toes stepped on and inconveniences unavoided.Peace, -C.
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Glenn Beck, Social Justice, and my FIL
I originally wrote the following several weeks ago. Glenn Beck GB had just done a radio show disparaging all things that call themselves interested in "social justice," and encouraged his listeners to...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW):
Good morning all! It's been a great couple of weeks away for your dear old Professor Crackpot Caractacus, and I hope this fortnight past passed you well as well.I had a plan to share pictures from my...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): New England Travelogue
Welcome to Things We Learned This Week, a special Tuesday morning edition of Morning Feature featuring the things we have collectively recently learned.I've decided to present for your perusal a...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): A/C and The Environment
Welcome to Things We Learned This Week, a special Tuesday morning edition of Morning Feature featuring the things we have collectively recently learned.This week I learned a whole lot more about air...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Politics of the Long Now
Welcome to TWLTW, an opportunity to value the random and planned things we have learned in the last week, approximately.I've been seeing a lot of changes around campus this week. In fact, so many...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Federal Theater Project
Welcome to TWLTW, a special weekly interruption of the DKos community series Morning Feature. Here, we celebrate Things large and small that We Learned This Week. If you've learned something recently,...
View ArticleMorning Feature (TWLTW): IKEA, the Anti-BP?
I love me some IKEA. We used to have these rickety, I'll say, "untrustworthy" bookshelves that would kind of lean one way or the other. We'd put the heavy books on the bottom and hope they'd hold the...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Change the world- Tweet!
Have you tweeted lately?One of my favorite columnists for the NYT, Bob Herbert, recently posted a column titled, Tweet Less, Kiss More. In it, he asks these questions:Why does anyone want, or need, to...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): My Club for Growth
Welcome to Morning Feature's Tuesday morning feature, Things We Learned this Week (or, recently, as the case may be). Here we share, discuss, and reflect on things we and others have learned, heard, or...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Link List
I'm a sucker for those top-ten lists in magazines and websites that advertise themselves as the best of whatever category they're purporting to arbitrarily miniaturize to 10 items, and then proceed to...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): HR 4223 Call To Action
Good morning all. Something deeply important to me, today. For the time and cost to you of a quick email message, or a phone call, you too can help encourage an elected official to provide real and...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Thoughts on A New School Year
I once had a student come to me and ask me what he had to do to get an A in my class."I'll do anything!" he said.So I said, "Okay, run through that wall over there, and when you're done, run through...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Back to School, Part 2
Let's say you have a child. A child who could be entering kindergarten in a week or two. A big day, that. 1st day in kindergarten. Lots of thoughts of growing up, of your little child's first steps to...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Discussing the [name of your choice] with friends...
Lightning never strikes the same place twice. After it strikes (the first time), the place is no longer the same.I've found this to be the case with my trip home to Ohio this week. You can go back, but...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Fascism, or fascism?
What is Fascism? And, what is fascism? Are they the same thing? Even the basics about this once seemingly simple to define political philosophy now appear to be flipped upside down?Fascism is on the...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): On Stop Signs and Eggs
I nearly lost my temper this week. One would think I'd have learned by now to divorce my emotional reactions from the crazy-tea-party emails that are designed to inflame them. But, it remains a...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Jon Stewart, "Necessary Branch of Government"?
Hmmmm... 10-02-2010 or 10-30-2010? I'll probably need to do laundry that month, and wash my hair, so I may only be able to squeeze in one multi-day trip to another city that will cost me some...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): What Disney Taught Me About The Tea Party
Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and so many animated classic feature films that to list them here would exceed intro word-count limits, was also an accomplished futurist. His Epcot*...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): Learned A Lot This Week!
Once upon a time there was a DKos account user named "Kula." Kula wrote witty, informed, insightful, wide-ranging reviews of overnight news events and random things that caught the eye of Kula. These...
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Morning Feature (TWLTW): The Jen Ratio of Hockey Success
Not too long ago, I learned from reading Malcolm Gladwell about the importance of a Canadian boy's birthdate to his likely success as an adolescent and even professional hockey player. This morning,...
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Parents in Yonkers Fighting for Schools, Need Help/Advice
Yonkers, NY, is the 4th largest municipality (by population) in New York state. It's nickname is The City of Vision. Believe it or not, Yonkers was once the birthplace of the elevator, synthetic...
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