Enjoying the quiet (and cool) summer morning.
Month: August 2018
👓 Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in U.S. | CBS
Alejandra Juarez has lived in the U.S. for 20 years and has two daughters who are American citizens
👓 Why is Max Nikias still hanging around? USC needs to move faster to find new leadership | LA Times
USC needs to be moving full steam ahead on new leadership capable of governing the university with accountability, transparency and ethics.
Wondering why @sfiscience’s excellent website has no RSS, ATOM, JSON, or other feed available? #scicomm
👓 Why We Removed Pressbooks from the WordPress Plugin Repository | PressBooks
Ned Zimmerman (Pressbooks)A couple weeks ago, we removed Pressbooks from the WordPress Plugin Repository. We want to offer an explanation for this decision to our users, and give some insight into our plans for the distribution of Pressbooks moving forward. Press...
Started playing around with PressBooks for WordPress tonight. Some interesting and useful book collaboration, editing, and production tools hiding in here.
Downloaded copies of Sabine Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math, Phillip Ball’s upcoming Beyond Weird (Oct 22), and Yuval Noah Harari’s upcoming 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Sept 4) to start reading shortly. 📚
👓 #EDU522 Week Two Update | Greg McVerry
You are right Miguel!
This is awesome. What might otherwise be a relatively dull update is suddenly awesome and entertaining to watch. I may lose the month to playing around with Plotagon now.
I do wish they had a way to do embeds directly though. The iframe isn’t the best and I suspect is doing wonky things for the page, though at least it’s viewable. Perhaps using the page’s .mp4 with <video> tags?
👓 Muslim Woman Ignores Dying Victim of London Terror Attack? | Snopes
On 22 March 2017, an attack took place outside the British Parliament in London during which a man drove a vehicle into a crowd of people on the Westminster Bridge. As police responded to the incident, which left four people dead, a photograph showing a woman dressed in a hijab with a cell phone in ...
A potential interesting case study for the “Made to Stick” arena.
👓 Facebook asks U.S. banks for financial info to boost user engagement: WSJ | Reuters
Facebook Inc said on Monday it is in talks to deepen links with banks and financial institutions, saying it can help the firms improve their customer service.
Yeah, this doesn’t seem like a horrible idea. Particularly given how good banks and Facebook are at using our data ethically and securely. </sarcasm>
📺 Star Trek (2009) | Paramount
Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
I’ve seen this in the theater and at least one other time on cable. Always entertaining.
Watched from Amazon Prime on big screen television over Fire Stick over the span of the last couple of nights.
Watched from Amazon Prime on big screen television over Fire Stick over the span of the last couple of nights.
Ms. Martinez (msmartinez8118.com)I found the readings quite interesting and filled with the perspectives of others on a topic new to me. Well, I should say, the exposure to the literature on the topic is new to me, not the concept of open pedagogy in general. I was also exposed to new learning and sharing of information by using a ...
👓 The Infographic Plague is actually a plague of lazy journalists and bloggers | The Next Web
I breathed a sigh of relief when I read Megan McCardle's Ending the Infographic Plague on The Atlantic a few days ago. Someone had said it at last! As useful as a really well-produced infographic can be, there's some real dross out there and it's time we talked about the problem.