Syntax Inspires Me

Think you know 'How to Write a Sentence'?

Jealous?

Look what we got in our big CSA boxes today...it is a bonafide mystery food.  It looks like a seashell...Mrs. Ellis found this photo on a website called "Fractal Food."  More photos there, and a cool article.  It  IS a fractal, a Fibonacci vegetable, and I will eat it.  And that's how I like my math:  with a little olive oil and garlic, and some pasta.

You learn more by writing than typing

I always thought this was true, but here's a pretty good explanation about why it is true.

Lifehacker:  You learn more by writing than typing

Oh for heavens sakes! It's a blueberry scam

Welcome New Blog Followers!

Signed up today, January 19:  Joseph Nishimoto, Kevin Dizon, Mckayla Girotti, Jessica Turner, Melissa Rivas, Justin Northern, Ariana Scott, Lenora Owuor, Ezinne Ofoegbu, Kaela Davis, Dora Owuor, Alex Trujillo, Jarred Cuellar, Ceci Lopez, Grant Oliver, and Amanda Niedenthal

Juvenile Justice Resources

Some resources for you:

• Here's a website that supplements a Frontline production -- we will look at this in class.

• A NPR report on the Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty for juveniles aged 16-17.
• The National Center for Juvenile Justice
• A variety of links covering Juvenile Justice issues
• More links maintained by a FSU law professor who specializes in juvenile justice
• NYT links to the Lionel Tate story
• Jesse James Hollywood, the guy behind the "Alpha Dog" story
• The Lawrence King/Brandon McInerney story covered by the NYT
• Brandon McInerney charged with first degree murder and to be tried as an adult, December 2009
• The 2001 case of Nathaniel Brazil -- the kid who shot his teacher because he wouldn't let Nathaniel say goodbye to some girls on the last day of school. At age 13, he received a 28 year sentence. (What kind of 41-year old man will walk out of prison in
  2029?)

Mediocre Multitasker, Revisted

More evidence, this time from a blogger published by the Harvard Business Review, that multitasking is essentially a waste of time.   You may feel productive, but the cognitive research insists that your brain is not wired for multiple, simultaneous activities.  If you believe otherwise and decide to keep up your multitasking study habits despite the research, just be aware that you are fooling yourself and consign yourself to the "bottom half." 
It is single-minded focus that makes excellence possible.