May 2012
7 posts
“…[T]he percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some...”
– From Graduate School to Welfare - Graduate Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via gmd)
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“‘Of one thing I am pretty sure,’ he resumed, ‘that the same recipe Goethe gave...”
– Robert Falconer, Book III, Chapter 8 (via glowwormandstar)
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WatchI am *so* excited about going to the Wild Goose Festival with my friends this summer. Camping + North Carolina + Josh Garrels, Gungor, Shane Claiborne, and so many more speakers, writers, musicians, artists, and people-who-love-Jesus! (via The 2012 Lineup » Wild Goose Festival)
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April 2012
21 posts
To Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The... →
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“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been...”
– Albert Goldbarth, “The Sciences Sing a Lullabye” (via astheplanetsbend)
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Who's this "Ibid" character anyway?
shitmystudentswrite:
Many of the statements in this paper are also noted as coming from a person only identified as ‘Ibid’ in the footnotes. I am not skeptical of Ibid’s view, but I would like to find his/her article and read it for myself.
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Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles? →
infoneer-pulse:
Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular. It’s also been thoroughly debunked.
The scientific research on learning styles is “so weak and unconvincing,” concluded a group of distinguished psychologists in a 2008 review, that it is not possible “to...
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“Love will not backward sigh, but forward strain,
On in the tale still telling,...”
– George MacDonald: Diary of an Old Soul (April Four).
(via xladyacex)
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition - Black tea... →
Published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2007):61. 3–18
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“A library is a forest which we enter to say, “I am here to be haunted.”
– Dan Beachy-Quick, poet and professor at Colorado State University
(via aplacetofindlife)
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“Believing takes practice.”
– Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)
March 2012
14 posts
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“What a hell of horror, I thought, to wander alone, a bare existence never going...”
– George MacDonald, Lilith
I am still learning the truth of this.
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“What a hell of horror, I thought, to wander alone, a bare existence never going...”
– George MacDonald, Lilith
I am still learning the truth of this.
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“What a hell of horror, I thought, to wander alone, a bare existence never going...”
– George MacDonald, Lilith
I am still learning the truth of this.
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“What boy, however fain to be a disciple of Christ and a child of God, would...”
– George MacDonald, “The Inheritance” from Unspoken Sermons
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The Unlikely Best-Seller: 'A Wrinkle In Time'... →
February 2012
11 posts
Letters from Home: Longing for Lent →
I need you to help me fast this year.
“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.”
– Stuart Brown (via elnellis)
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WatchOh! Can I be a guest?!
“Modern discourse is not really comfortable with the word “soul,” and...”
– Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
I'm Just Sayin': There Are Anachronisms In... →