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Sunday’s Best: Other Ways to Fail
Today’s Sunday-sized WuMo is a great reminder about planning ahead, but it’s today’s FoxTrot that reminds us of something vital in the conversation about AI in academics.
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Sunday’s Best: Summer Extensions
Lots of school and seasonal humor today. FoxTrot points towards the fantasy in fantasy football. Peppermint Patty tries to beat the clock with a math problem. And Calvin? Well it turns out that he’s the neighborhood alarm clock. But it’s … Continue reading
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Twenty Years of The Far Country
This past week, Andrew Peterson celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of The Far Country. It was the first of his albums after Carried Along that I learned to feel deeply, that tapped into something I was still just … Continue reading
On Reading
I suppose that writing and reading advice can be found just about anywhere these days (assuming that you can’t get something else to read or write for you, which is more likely the case). So it’s a rare pleasure to … Continue reading
Opening the Office
The Ringer has become a great place for thoughtful, very comprehensive lists. Case in point: in honor of the release of The Paper (the thematic sequel to The Office), the folks at The Ringer ranked all 173 cold opens of … Continue reading
“Beyond Sentiment”
Here’s a great excerpt from this week’s Desert Fathers episode by Erik Varden about Christian joy lived out over time: So my fidelity must be rooted at greater depth, beyond sentiment. St Benedict stresses this when, in the midst of … Continue reading
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“A Foolish Thought or Maybe…”
Today we turned the first corner of the new school year in class: we started our second unit of study, which involves reason and arguments for God’s existence, with a discussion of “Maybe There’s a Loving God.” Here’s a recording … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Birds of a Feather?
The Sunday funnies are high quality this week. In today’s classic Peanuts, for instance, Sally treats her attempt at writing as a spy-like cover-up. Then, in this week’s FoxTrot, Peter has to learn to speak Jason’s language as a way … Continue reading
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Our Current Futuristic Sci-Fi Moment
The folks at the Ringer recently posted a nice piece on our current, not-quite-futuristic, sci-fi television moment. The three franchises he wrote about that I’ve got some investment in: Star Wars via Andor, Star Trek via Strange New Worlds, and … Continue reading
Sunday’s Best: Open for Interpretation?
A day late but rarely a dollar short with this Sunday’s best comic strip. Yesterday’s standout was a classic Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz that challenges our assumptions on what’s going on when a dog is barking. And here’s today’s … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 