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The Feel of Books

November 1, 2011

It’s been a long time since we’ve asked questions like, “What good are paper & print for communicating ideas & stories?” And rarely, if ever, have we had reason to think of the feel of books (or for that matter, their smell) as something separate from the books themselves.

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Tagged With: Julian Barnes, embodiment, e-books, Books, Book Publishing, beauty, Technology
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So, What Percentage Would Be Appropriate?

September 9, 2011

Cue that music from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Tomorrow is a Monday

April 3, 2011

A voluptuous torrent…

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Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly

April 1, 2011

What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?

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Shelved with: Word in the World|| Reading the Word|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Shakespeare, Liturgy, Holidays, History, film, Civility, Bible, April Fool
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First Sunday in Advent

November 28, 2010

Texts from Genesis, Isaiah & Revelation for the beginning of the church year.

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Tagged With: Revelation, Light, Isaiah, Genesis, Church Year, Advent, Hope
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Bugs Bunny Stole My Cognitive Surplus!

July 27, 2010

Bugs Bunny’s first appearance, July 27th, 1940, was nominated for an academy award.

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Shelved with: Visions & Ventures|| Mind & Society|| Hearts & Minds|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Television, Psychology, Holidays, History, Culture, Cognitive Surplus, Bugs Bunny
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Every Title the Story of a Reader

June 9, 2010

The true measure of Donalyn Miller’s students’ reading is shown in the challenges they set themselves, the new patterns & experiences they explored, and the richness of the “you had to be there” moments they shared.

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The Play’s the Thing

May 7, 2010

That we can watch such things for free over the internet via PBS is something for which I am immensely grateful. That this is just one more story we share as a family – that’s priceless.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Literature|| Visions & Ventures|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: web, Stories, Shakespeare, film
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Boy. Dog.

March 13, 2010

A couple scenes from life with the new puppy.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Puppy, Pets, Parenting, Dog, Dakota Shepherd
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Gaylord Nelson at Wyaslung State Park

Madison Reads Leopold, 2010

March 6, 2010

“Yearly, the feathered tempest roared up, down, and across the continent, sucking up the laden fruits of forest and prairie, burning them in a traveling blast of life….”

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Shelved with: Local Life|| Hearts & Minds|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Holidays, Environment, Aldo Leopold, Reading Aloud, Spring
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ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRS TUVWXYZ

February 27, 2010

Acrostics — lists and songs arranged alphabetically — are of course a venerable tradition, uniting the ancient author of Psalm 119 with the youngest child learning to sing the ABC Song. One could say that the alphabet is the first & primary meme, the source behind every other, a natural fit for the blogosphere.

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Tagged With: World Wide Web, WordPress, Memes, Bookstores, Alphabet, Acrostic
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Little Things

November 14, 2009

For me, microbiology always communicates a sense of secret revelation – it is so intimate, our very flesh & blood, and yet so intricate and strange. What a wonder to be able to see some small portion of the invisible entities that underlie our physical life!

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Shelved with: Biology|| Education|| The Book of Nature|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Zirus Inc., Virus, Threshold Concepts, Science, NPR, Microbiology, Data Visualization
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