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Tag Archives: scott westerfeld
My penultimate post for 2011
We’re heading back to New York tomorrow morning, and depending on how long the wait at the Holland Tunnel is when we finally reach the city, (it’s torture, because we can see our building – so close and yet so … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Adele, Amy Adams, anna dressed in blood, blog, books, born this way, Castle, dennis prager, dooce, education of millionaires, enrique iglesias, Grimm, happiness is a serious problem, hawaii five-o, Hugh Dancy, I like it, Jane Eyre, Joss Whedon, kendare blake, Lady Gaga, learning, legend, life learning, marie lu, maroon 5, michael ellsberg, Michael Fassbender, moves like jagger, movies, Nina Arianda, scott westerfeld, Seth Godin, Stephen King, The Help, the muppets, the near witch, Tribes, tv, uglies, unschooling, Venus in Fur, victoria schwab
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The benefits of diversity
Anybody who studies genetics will tell you that when the gene pool of a given population becomes too uniform, stagnant or (dare I say it?) standardized, the results are not favorable. The health of the population suffers, as does … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, School, Unschooling
Tagged animals, cartoon, diversity, dna, dystopian future, education, farmers, gene pool, genetics, health, independent thought, learning, life learning, pretties, school, scott westerfeld, standardized tests, uglies, unschooling
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Some stuff I’m enjoying, and maybe you will too…
BOOKS 98% of the books I’ve been reading lately are of the YA genre. (That’s Young Adult, in case you’re unfamiliar.) It’s a label that should never stop someone of the OA (Older Adult) variety from picking one up. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling
Tagged alaska, alfie kohn, articles, book club, books, education, gabrielle zevin, hallelujah chorus, huffington post, leviathan, life learning, Maya, movies, pretties, scott westerfeld, teenink, the muppet show, the muppets, uglies, unschooling, videos, washington post
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Authors, Authors!
Today we spent part of the afternoon at Books of Wonder, a great independent children’s bookstore on 18th St. in Chelsea. We were there for a ‘Fantastic Fiction’ book event in order to meet one of Maya’s favorite authors, Gabrielle … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged all these things i've done, author, books of wonder, Elsewhere, gabrielle zevin, Hunger Games, learning, leviathan, life learning, Maya, memoirs of a teenage insomniac, scott westerfeld, Suzanne Collins, uglies, unschooling
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