Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

At the Schoolhouse Gate

The most counterintuitive, surprising, and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday.

I started a new blog last week. At the Schoolhouse Gate, a.k.a. “The Gate,” will focus on school law issues. The Gate is intended to be a space where news items, commentary, opinions,

reports, and other education law materials can coalesce together into a

meaningful resource for administrators, professors, and attorneys. The Gate welcomes new voices; contact me if you are interested in being a contributor to the blog.

This brings my blogging projects up to five now (yikes!). Hard to believe considering that I just started blogging last August…

Dangerously Irrelevant

LeaderTalk

At the Schoolhouse Gate

CASTLE Conversations

Principal Blogging Project

The most counterintuitive, surprising, and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday.

Collage of classical art suggesting a theme related to somatic markers.

Business

How “somatic markers” can transform your decision-making

Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.

A black and white image of a bunch of spheres, symbolizing the multiverse concept discussed by scientists.

Starts With A Bang

How logic and reasoning can fail as scientific tools

In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.

A wooden sign indicating "assisted migration rep 2" in a pine forest under a clear blue sky.

Life

Moving trees north to save the forests

As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.

Historical map illustration depicting a planned city layout with a circular central area and radiating streets.

Strange Maps

Ohio’s Circleville ditched the grid system. Then it got squared.

A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.

Bullet Cluster separation mass gravity x-ray lensing

Starts With A Bang

Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death

NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?

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