November 13, 2014
by kjolson
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Since I’m a baseball fan, I’m used to hearing the adage about how hard it is, actually, for a moving ball and a moving cylinder to make contact. From a physics’ point of view, that is. We should be surprised that … Continue reading
November 13, 2014
by kjolson
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Napoleon I’ve decided to use a second story with time travel as a plot part in my Science Fiction class, so I asked all my geeky friends on facebook what they’d suggest. And I have a LOT of geeky … Continue reading
July 6, 2011
by kjolson
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Boing Boing (and Xeni and Cory) has long been one of my favorite daily stops in the corner of the web where design, geekdom, politics, freedom of speech, cute animals, and computers hang out and have adult beverages together. It’s … Continue reading
October 5, 2009
by kjolson
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A few weeks ago, I had the distinct pleasure of being asked to write a guest blog on Bedford-St. Martin’s Press High School Bits blog, authored by my online friend and colleague Jodi Rice. (She’s doing silly things like getting … Continue reading
February 26, 2009
by kjolson
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Let go of the dead now. The rope in the water, the cleat on the cliff, do them no good anymore. Let them fall, sink, go away, become invisible as they tried so hard to do in their own dying. … Continue reading
January 16, 2009
by kjolson
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…something happened today that is making think about it. My tenth graders just finished reading Elie Wiesel’s Night, and they’re now working on culminating projects. One of the groups is doing a “Who was Hitler, really” kind of thing, researching … Continue reading
December 22, 2008
by kjolson
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Driving home after work (school, prep, mock trial bus to courhouse and back, etc.), I was, as usual, listning to public radio, and Fresh Air was on. Terri Gross was interviewing Lawrence Lessig, Law Professor at Standford School of Law, … Continue reading
December 18, 2008
by kjolson
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Theo’s Blog Entry let me tell you a little about my self, I am 14 years of age and, well if life were a deck of cards, most people have one random card and 51 normal cards. My deck consists … Continue reading