“It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -Albert Einstein Some people absorb a lot of information from reading textbooks and listening to lectures. And I’ll admit, I’m capable of learning using those methods. But hands-on application is my JAM. For my audiology class, we’re learning about hearing screenings and audiometry to diagnose hearing loss. The…
The architecture of NW Portland, in monochrome.
You can earn college credit by watching The History Channel? Well, sort of. A partnership between the History Channel and the University of Oklahoma has developed a 16-week, 3-credit college online course called “United States, 1865 to the Present.” It emphasizes the History Channel’s multimedia archives so that students can visualize U.S. history rather than…
The 1948 picture book Blueberries for Sal never fails to take me back to my childhood. My parents used to read it to me at bedtime until I was old enough to read it to them instead. I loved hearing about Sal and her mother going blueberry picking to stock up for the winter. Sal starts…
Is YouTube the solution to the sex ed controversy? Every minute 100 hours of video footage are uploaded to YouTube. A likely majority of these videos are sneezing pandas and laughing babies, but a new trend is also emerging: using YouTube as a platform for sex education. Video genres on the site range from music…
What happened here? It’s a mystery.
1. If I’m up at 8am when I don’t have class until 11. 2. If I’m wearing a dress or skirt to class. 3. If that dress or skirt is covered in lint. 4. If I find myself questioning whether red is “light” or “dark.” 5. If I’m sweating profusely while climbing up the stairs.…
It looks a bit like a Coca-Cola ad, but it just exudes the warmth and simplicity of summer.
Women face a variety of external struggles in the workplace–undermining comments from chauvinistic bosses, dress codes based on women’s modesty, sexual harassment, fighting for equal pay and maternity leave, the “mommy track,” underrepresentation in STEM fields–but bright women face an additional internal struggle that starts from a young age. Psychologist Carol Dweck conducted a study of…
The natural world doesn’t have to be motionless.
Victim to Charm 