September 14, 2018 0 The Weekender, September 14, 2018 1) “Can Good Teaching Be Taught?” (New York Times, 27 minutes, September 2018). [Cynthia] Gunner [...]
August 17, 2018 0 The Weekender, August 17, 2018 1) “The Nastiest Feud in Science” (The Atlantic, 35 minutes, September 2018). The title (in the [...]
July 27, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 27, 2018 1) “Mr. Rogers was my actual neighbor. He was everything he was on TV and more.” (Vox, 6 minutes, [...]
July 20, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 20, 2018 1) “How E-Commerce is Transforming Rural China” (New Yorker, 28 minutes, July 2018). You can also [...]
July 13, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 13, 2018 1) “The mind-bendy weirdness of the number zero, explained” (Vox, 8 minutes, July 2018, plus a 5 [...]
July 6, 2018 0 The Weekender, July 6, 2018 1) “Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster. The rogue world of one of [...]
June 29, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 29, 2018 1) “The Counterfeit Queen of Soul” (Smithsonian Magazine, 19 minutes, July 2018). This is the [...]
June 22, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 22, 2018 1) Results from the Now I Know Reader Survey, June 2018. As promised! Click and give it a read. Here’s [...]
June 1, 2018 0 The Weekender, June 1, 2018 1) “A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses​” (New York Times, 18 minutes, May [...]
May 25, 2018 0 The Weekender, May 25, 2018 1) “An Open Letter to Wikipedia” by Philip Roth (The New Yorker, 11 minutes, September 2012). [...]