Science teacher

Breaking out of the classroom into the world....

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Truth be told

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I teach "science," but it's not science my lambs need. They need to be able to see the world as it is. I also hope they feel...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Death and dollars

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I posted this a few years ago. It's mid-winter, and I wanted to share it again. Last night we met an old friend. His dead brother l...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

On peeling garlic outdoors in January

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Garlic, CC I peel garlic almost nightly.  It's a ritual. I step outside, and in the dark wintry months, look up at the stars. I am...
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The Bambification of Dr. King

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When I die, I hope nobody mistakes my kindness for niceness. I am not a nice man. Dr. King's life profoundly affected mine. I hav...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

A paradigm shift: "How do you know?"

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Before science we had language. We trusted our tongues, our ears, our skin. We knew trees and water and the last agonal gurgle of death...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Halfway to Groundhog Day

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A handful of grace Yesterday, the last day of the darkest 6 weeks of the year, my seeds came through the mail. Little paper packets hol...
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Math, magic, and machines

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All practices of magic or sorcery , by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supe...
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Bloomfield, NJ, United States
Very briefly a longshoreman, briefly a lab tech in a booze plant, more recently a pediatrician in the projects, now a high school teacher in my hometown.
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