Duopoly

 Regulating swipe fees like Europe and Australia

swipe fees vs reward points

Why doctors sometimes require appointment to discuss your lab results?

The park is alive

 For the past few weeks, butterflies have been buzzing all around the park.

Today, the left field was full of pigeons. Not as many as passenger pigeons. Telegraph and railroad advancements were a death knell for the passenger pigeons.

Last week we saw a pair of lovebirds. Another day, a vermilion flycatcher. About a month ago, another pretty bird.

Apparently the butterflies around are wanderign aimlessly and some of them could be looking for their winter spot for hibernation.

There was a couple who danced. The lady in summer dress. Nothing elaborate.. Just a twirl 10 steps further. Reminded me of a dream from decades. 

Writing about wildlife

 Find field notes and write the informatio for a lower reader level.

Lesser Long Nosed bats  prefer going through certain habitats instead of "As the Crow Flies". They can even be feeding from hummingbird feeders.

Why science literacy matters

The Boy Who Played with Fusion

Rocket Boys

Portrait of a Graduate

Lessons from a Teacher

 The Art of Teaching Children Lifetime-Classroom

: All I Learned from a Lifetime in the Classroom by Phillip Done

While reading this book, I realised some of the teachers following Done's suggestions.

One teacher "Interacts with students outside of classroom". She likes to see the kids at their birthday parties.

Eat lunch with students . Kids love the opportunity to eat with their teacher.

Write home when children are absent. This connects the kid home, recovering to the whole class and teacher.

Spirit Days.  The best I have seen, was at a summer camp. A lady used her hair as a flower vase.

American schools teaching speaking as well as speaking with humor.

With all the show and tell, kids become experts at speaking. 

9 types of intelligence

First Chapter fridays, Book talk, Book tastings are all fun ideas.

silly states

For kids

 Planetarium show listings

New approaches

 Not Fitting in the decision tree

Balancing risks and initiatives

How Decimal fractions came about

Teaching a new language

 

aanandam aanandam

Skeuomorphic

 skeuomorphic

"a design or design element, as an icon on a digital device, that mimics the three-dimensional look or the sound of a physical object, such as LCD hands on a smartwatch or the shutter sound on a digital camera."

other examples -

Hand written notes font.

Generalist interest

 Skills decay

Does this explain the leanings of a generalist?

There is a certain degree of difference needed to be interested in things?

Leading Pedestrian interval

 How many cars does it take before a biker can rightly use their right of way with the walking man sign.

5

I have seen this happen. I could not believe it.

leading pedestrian interval

There are situations where even this could catch pedestrians offguard when an evening truck takes a right turn.

Miscellaneous

Test of persuasion

When checking kids spelling homework, I did a once over at pedler. The joys of learning British English.

Most snakes which use constriction lack venom. Nature and its compensatory ways.

The other day kid wondered about why theres only men in construction. The next day we found a woman construction engineer in a hard hat.

Metal plates on road

Productive struggle

Equal TIme Rule

 Unlike broadcast television, streaming services are not legally bound to provide politicians with equal access when it comes to running ads.

Equal time rule - " If a radio or television station sells air time to one candidate, the rule states that it must offer to sell the same amount of time to other candidates for that office."

With only so much time to go around, there would have to be some changes. The problem is the equal-time requirement in Section 315 of the Communications Act and the collision of this rule with unmanageable numbers of ..candidates

First comes the intention and taking care of unintended consequences. Can the law suppress political debate? ( "The Supreme Court has emphasized that restrictions on broadcasters' First Amendment rights must be "narrowly tailored" to serve a substantial government interest."). Free or paid time? If its free time then theres no burden on the candidate. 

Kennedy Nixon Debates when the equal time rule was suspended. 15 years later, when debates were considered exempt as bonafide news event as allowed in the amendment.

Viewership at 100 million in 1960 to 73 million in 2020 presidential debates.

Equal time law vs equal opportunity

political speech-  lies in a political ad - defamation recourse

"Different rules apply to different mediums of communication."

Non-attainment area

 non-attainment in Montana. 

short term and long term memory

 When you konw you heard about something but remember nothing beyond that until you ping your memory enough times with new information to reach the threshold to recall. When you cant remember what it is that you were going to do.

Economist goes to the game

Economist goes to the game

Why Explore Space talks about the count who spent money on a person working optical gadgets while there was a plague going on. This is similar to the reason why cities build big stadiums when they lack public services.

Norway is good at cross country skiing

Herfindahl index of concentration in a market or sport.

Structured task

 

"It's kind of funny that one of the earliest functions of computers was keeping track of lots of details that humans would be prone to forgetting" - Byrne, The Diff