Yeah, it's honestly so dumb, no joke.
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Yeah, it's honestly so dumb, no joke.
I didn't know he was in the hospital. Glad you say he's doing well there. Will keep you in my thoughts.
Just donated 30 bucks to Dem candidates on Oath, which is kind of like ActBlue except that you never get any annoying texts because they don't share your contact information. app.oath.vote
Reminds me of Hepburn's classic film, BUT HER EMAILS. It was so good that it affected the course of human history permanently!
The highlights of last night's game didn't end up on USL's YouTube channel. Will DCFC be posting their own extended highlights?
[GIFT ARTICLE] Mathematician Eugenia Chang explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/s... #iteachmath
Panthers at AlumniFi would be cool.
I didn't watch the match, but looking at the timeline, now I'm REALLY curious what happened there at the end.
Yes.
I think creative tasks are most likely to be used by other teachers if they're quick: ~15 min. Then folks can work them in no matter their teaching style. The task should supplement the main lesson, not replace it, to maximize the number of teachers who feel comfortable using it.
Um, because military history is interesting, and I was curious?
Good point that most of it is redundant.
I've tried a couple of things in this category: www.curriki.org sharemylesson.com but there were so many resources that it took forever for me to find anything I like. But mainly, I think finding resources is linked to finding teachers you like. It's basically a social process.
Is there a specific retreat you're talking about? The Overland campaign?
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
Teachers hate THE WIRE for the school scenes. Prez was absolute trash as a teacher.
Were the misaligned lessons too high, or too low?
🗣️YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT IS A PATTERN. HE'S GUTTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF BLACK LEADERS BUT THOSE BLACK LEADERS OVERSEE PARTS OF THE GOVERNMENT THAT AFFECT YOUR DAY TO DAY. #blacksky #econsky
Yeah, I bought a bunch, but there's no guarantee that I'll replenish the supplies if it doesn't seem worth it. Thanks!
Integrating better use of highlighters is one of my goals for Geometry this year. I was thinking: Yellow expressions are congruent for an identifiable reason. Blue things represent whatever the sum ought to be. I don't know. Any tips?
And then, every once in a while, someone blows you away with their knowledge and skill!
*who are relatively low-skilled.
Instead of insane confidence in oneself, what do you think about a strong awareness that a lot of folks who are "experts" also don't know what they're talking about? Not saying that expertise doesn't exist, but that there are also folks with credentials/acceptances that are relatively low-skilled.
Look closely...can you find BUT HER EMAILS in this word search?
They're not masked, and they're behaving professionally. There's nothing they could say that wouldn't make the situation worse. I'd much rather see FBI around than ICE, DEA, etc.
The Confederacy has finally occupied DC.
I'm a huge fan of @jamesfolta.com and @lukevburns.bsky.social's newsletter so it was really cool to get a shoutout in their latest! Go subscribe if you like humor. buttondown.com/humorouswrit...
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied over 19,000 adults and found that each additional COVID vaccine dose lowered long COVID risk, and antiviral treatments like Paxlovid cut risk by up to 95% beyond six months. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why yes, that is a DC tour bus offloading by the MRAPs.
I didn't make it through this whole book, but the ~50% I did make it through convinced me that the Enlightenment ideas of Locke, Rousseau, etc had their origin in Native American society. The French Jesuits communicated them to Europe. www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everyth...
2 things stand out: the FBI guys aren't covering their faces, because they're professionals. Thank you, FBI. The other thing is that they're patrolling in *Georgetown*? It's ridiculous! For Detroit folks, this is like patrolling the Village in Grosse Pointe.
What state in the US has the best education system, and why?
It’s true what they say. This is excellent. And I’m going to quote the end to give you a taste: “But personalized learning is the wrong ideal. … We shouldn’t be going all-in on kids learning on their own. We should be trying to figure out how to make whole-group learning even better.”
cc: @dailydetroit.bsky.social
For reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Str...
I would be interested in your view on whether this dynamic has also infected academia. I hope that our knowledge-producing institutions are still much more strongly grounded in evidence than in vibes. What do you think? (I also wonder what research shows on this). I am aware of Kuhn, etc.
I try to stay positive, but at this point I'd love to see Danny Dichio move on.
I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️⚧️ 🌊 ✨ Read the Q&A here:
My opinion: she didn't necessarily miss it. Had she called it out, Netanyahu is the type of guy to ramp up the killing just to show the world how powerless anyone was to stop him.
Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back." Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."
precalc! freely available materials! great combination cc #iTeachMath ♾️
Help me solve a beautiful geometric math problem! I'm stuck and need a better approach! Believe it or not, it's from 1898, I'm guessing from a temple in Japan (Sangaku). #mathart #mtbos #iteachmath (cc @catrionaagg.bsky.social ) samjshah.com/2025/08/05/s...
(This is one reason I'm excited about the Corktown stadium for DCFC)
Are you from the Detroit area? I didn't know that!
(I had no idea how predatory the main professional sports leagues were until I got interested in USL)
cc: @ngsdetroit.bsky.social
@scyldsceafing.bsky.social
We are safe from own goals for a few more days
More to the point, it has been the a major policy of the Dem party for quite a while to grow manufacturing jobs for things like EV batteries and solar cells. Obama and Biden put a lot of federal money into both.
The coal part is definitely untrue. Coal mining employment in the US has declined for a very long time, and now employs almost nobody. bsky.app/profile/pkru...
Me: "So which country should @aoc.bsky.social go back to?" Mick Mulvaney: "She's an American citizen." Me: "So why did Trump tell her to go back to her country?" I asked former Trump WH chief of staff Mulvaney if he ever challenged his then boss on his racist tweets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolq...
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Although, as a vegetarian, I don't eat duck.
Ha, I bet almost nobody will understand what you mean.
Wow!
Do they use passive or active sonar to follow SSBN's? I had no idea they could be followed.
I think it's more likely that over-testing leads to a kind of "quiet quitting" that would be hard to capture in short-term data.
Kamala would have been so much better on Gaza and every other issue.
David's point was that recovery will require competent leadership that can inspire social trust. I haven't always been an AOC fan, but I do think she works hard to inspire social trust. Though, as David says, whether her message would break through media distortions is questionable.
what a read! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah... cc #iTeachMath ♾️ #MathSky 🧮
What about a scenario where they pull a Bill Barr maneuver? Leave the report the same and create a different executive summary and headline to share on Fox?
He was actually fired a while ago, we just never told him.
Very interesting! I've passed it on to an IB teacher I know, because their curriculum specifically asks to link math topics with social topics. (I also don't teach Alg1 anymore). I haven't checked out the new Alg2 curriculum...will be digging in soon. I teach Precalc, but some stuff will relate.
Would you consider AOC an insider or outsider at this point?
@mattryanelateach.bsky.social Want to talk about Daniel's post? I actually think that doing more of what that class teaches is one of the necessary solutions to the replication crisis in social sciences.
How did I miss this Desmos/Amplify lesson on Detroit's population? The only way this could be more specifically targeted to me is if it somehow featured Nate Steinwascher! #Detroit classroom.amplify.com/activity/62d...
‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows An annex to the Durham special counsel report was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Epstein files gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
Happy publication day to first author @ewanmurray.bsky.social! A lot of hard work by Ewan went into this, so it is great to see if fully published. A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
Also no wonder President Trump is trying to vociferously deny he sent Epstein the "wonderful secret" birthday message in 2003.
What is common between the Fourier series and the Cartesian coordinate system? More than you think: they are (almost) the same. Let me explain why!
Cool! If you look closely, you can find the phrase BUT HER EMAILS in the word search.
By the way, La Supreme (inside the Book Building) is perhaps the best restaurant in downtown Detroit. They do brunch on weekends, otherwise it's dinner only.
Remarkable: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million views on Instagram, 56% among non-followers, per data given to me. He is forging a new answer to Dems' digital woes. I talked to his advisers in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1984...
Nice. You'll have a great view of the downtown skyline. I assume you already know that the Detroit Institute of Arts and Greenfield Village/The Henry Ford Museum are the two main tourist attractions in Metro Detroit, but just in case I'm mentioning it here. The Riverwalk is very nice, too.
Then stroll a little further to see the famous lobby of Detroit's Guardian Building (red brick skyscraper), which is essentially where the Great Depression started. If you want something quirky, head here: time.com/collections/...
Continue your walking tour by heading north again on Washington Blvd to Grand Circus, and enter the lobby of the David Whitney Hotel. Take a few pictures, etc. Then walk south on Woodward to enjoy the architecture as you approach Campus Martius. Maybe have a meal at Parc in Campus Martius.
Head over to Cannelle, grab a coffee and breakfast pastry, then go enjoy them a few feet away in Capitol Park. Then go for a short walk. Walk to Washington Blvd (2 blocks west), then up the path in the median to the Book Building that houses the Roost Hotel. Check out the restored lobby.
Are you staying downtown?
After years of teaching quantum, I just realized that I have gotten this equation, at the heart of QM, backwards. It’s not saying that the frequency f of a particle’s wave function is given by its energy E. It’s saying that energy is *defined* as the frequency of the wave function. ⚛️🧪 (1/4)
The education-related article in the second tweet in this thread seems like it'd be interesting for #MTBoS folks. I'm taking the summer off, but let me know if it's good.
The people in that crowd care about their city and how the team represents their city. Folks who go to MLS games just enjoy soccer but are moderately disappointed that the games they can go to aren't as good as EPL. I say this as a former season ticket holder for an MLS game. The vibe is different.
Ooh, nice. That's great. I was just going off of Wikipedia.
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
Unless he's just gonna be a forward.
Wait, he's a left-back/forward? So like a left-sided wingback? That strikes me as a kind of weird acquisition at this point.
This is the kind of feeling that MLS will never really have.
Tbh, I'm not aware of it being in place in any schools.
LOL
When you read 1984 it feels incredibly on the nose and heavy handed, but watching the Trump cult do this for Maxwell does actually feel like the scene where a chap has to declare mid-speech that an agent of Goldstein has swapped out all the posters cos we've actually always been at war with Eurasia!
“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
#EduSky
England has made a sustained effort to bring insights from learning science into its education system. Oddly, most of the research driving this comes from the US, yet we continue to lag in connecting this science to teaching practice. From @gtoppo.bsky.social: www.the74million.org/article/cogn...
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
We wanna know what you think about Trevor leaving, etc. And what's happening to the men's side.
Or just someone who's just lost their charisma, who always looks tired, and who and is struggling to manage their stuttering.
Exactly.
With the news about Trevor, I'd be interested to hear if that connects at all to your post.