Category Archives: Education
Math Wars
I first heard of math wars my sophomore year of college. I thought I heard my professor wrong, I thought he meant star wars. But the longer I live I realize how deep the feelings run in this battle of education. And it isn’t just math, it’s all subjects. It’s about direct teaching vs. discovery learning. [...]
Side Projects and Productivity
I have this problem; I like to learn new things and I like to try new things. As a result I end up putting more on my plate than I can handle (which incidentally is also my problem with food. Weird). I get all of these ideas and projects that I want to do and [...]
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Learn: The Greenhouse Effect
So I had already written out my post and published it, but not even a whole minute later, I deleted it. This one will probably be a little short because of that. Sorry. I decided to learn about the greenhouse effect. I have heard a lot about global warming and the greenhouse effect lately (as [...]
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Learn: White Sauce
This week I just happened to walk by a book that caught my eye entitled Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making by James Peterson. At first I thought that I would learn a brief overview of sauces and/or the making of sauces and be done with it. But when I opened the book the first [...]
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Learn Something
There is so much out there to learn. As I go through out my day to day life I am confronted time and again with different subjects and topics that seem interesting to me and that I have a desire to try to learn something more about. It doesn’t help that I work in a [...]
