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I can't find the thread in which I talked (ranted?) about multiplication tables, so I'll start a new one. This is very, very bad. Bad teacher, no apple! To have memorization trump conceptual understanding is a fundamental failure to understand what mathematics is all about. Besides ... commutitative property of multiplication!!! Even Wolfram Alpha know this.
In 1982, the Forest Agency of the Japanese government premiered its shinrin-yoku plan. In Japanese shinrin means forest, and yoku, although it has several meanings, refers here to a “bathing, showering or basking in.” More broadly, it is defined as “taking in, in all of our senses, the forest atmosphere.” The program was established to encourage the populace to get out into nature, to literally bathe the mind and body in greenspace, and take advantage of public owned forest networks as a means of promoting health. Some 64 percent of Japan is occupied by forest, so there is ample opportunity to escape the megacities that dot its landscape.
if something is not on the internet, did it ever exist?
anybody remember an ad for mexican tourism with the jingle tagline being --
"mexico... mexico... the arriba country"?
custom made cat furniture from germany
Interview with Lawrence Wright on his new scientology book.
RIP Portlandia?
Hilarious comments to this oregonian piece on a small herd of urban goats needing s new home asap.
six years, 201 countries, no planes. wow.
Look what the New Year's Serpent brought me:
Snowy Owl at Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn 1/1/14
feel like something like this has been posted before but.... turns out im from new york city after all.
A lesson from The Snake
Last day before Christmas for Alex to have a birthday! HBD!!!
this one might be the least objectionable although that crown might suggest otherwise.
Jim, a different take on your golf ball seed idea
someone sent me a card through the mail of all places and neglected to include a check. has the meaning of christmas been lost on everyone?
ooooh, these boots were made for walkin'. kind of.
i read very little of this technical history but have been listening to a lecture series about world war one and they were talking about the problem of mounted machine guns shooting through propellers so i sought out more information. that always seemed problematic when watching aerial combat in war movies but they pretty quickly overcame it in reality. hard to believe they could synchronize the guns and propellers at those speeds. who knew? science! (and killing machines!)