Monarch Butterflies (by sunmallia)
beautiful. there are two more photos in the comments section and the light in the first of them is striking.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
The program will not allow students to earn an M.I.T. degree. Instead, those who are able to exhibit a mastery of the subjects taught on the platform will receive an official certificate of completion. The certificate will obviously not carry the weight of a traditional M.I.T. diploma, but it will provide an incentive to finish the online material. According to the New York Times, in order to prevent confusion, the certificate will be a credential bearing the distinct name of a new not-for-profit body that will be created within M.I.T.
The new online platform will look to build upon the decade-long success of the university’s original free online platform, OpenCourseWare (OCW), which has been used by over 100 million students and contains course material for roughly 2,100 classes. The new M.I.T.x online program will not compete with OCW in the number of courses that it offers. However, the program will offer students a greater interactive experience.
(Source: abbyjean)
Tell them thanks…I am waiting for Muni to hire me as their spokesperson!! (via John Waters Rides the 47, Wants to Be Muni Spokesman « Muni Diaries)
yep. san francisco. we have renegade arborists. <3
Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, a married gay San Francisco couple who were almost forced to split up last fall due to the threat of Makk’s looming deportation, will be able to stay together for at least two more years. Makk, who is an Australian citizen, has been married to Wells, a U.S. citizen, for 19 years but was denied a green card under the Defense of Marriage Act.
– Gay Bi-National S.F. Couple Wins Deportation Reprieve: SFistAfter 28 years of silently tolerating it, a group of unemployed local musicians have joined forces to release a Christmas single, entitled ‘Yes we do,’ in response to the Bob Geldof inspired Band Aid song, ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’. Speaking at the launch of their song, the musicians praised Geldof’s relentless quest for an answer and said they hoped their collaboration would free the Irishman and his friends to start looking for solutions to new and more important questions.
(Source: abbyjean)
sf has its first loony dook! (well, minus the fancy dress and full immersion. and with a different big red bridge in the background. but still.)
One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”
She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.
“My ponytail,” she cried.
“Can I see?” I asked.
She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.
“How’s that?” I asked.
She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.
‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’
(Source: rethinkingschools.org)
About me
we stopped in every passing placeto watch the world move
faster than we do
watch it pass with our eyes closed
the way we usually choose to
--idlewild, in remote part/scottish fiction
these are some of the things that made me slow down, take a moment, smile or sigh or laugh or scream or somehow shut off the autopilot so that i might really take notice of the world, or at least one small part of it, before continuing on my way.
things that caught my attention, when i let them.
