From My Blog
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The Halls That Built the West: Five Universities That Shaped a Thousand Years of Learning
Posted for April 23 — St. George’s Day, and a fitting moment to celebrate the medieval English and European academic traditions that gave us the modern university Every August, students across the globe pack up belongings, move into dormitories, and begin a ritual that feels deeply modern: signing up for courses, sitting in lecture halls,…
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Minds, Machines, and Moral Questions: Four Episodes That Make AI Ethics Impossible to Ignore
What does a robot pitcher from 1959, a holographic lounge singer, a Starfleet android’s courtroom hearing, and a man exiled alone on an asteroid have in common? They ask the questions that AI researchers, legislators, and ethicists are still arguing about today. This guide walks through a four-episode Current Events Debate unit using The Twilight…
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The Last Ride? What Curry, Green, and Kerr Meant to Basketball
The Warriors’ play-in exit may have ended an era. Curry, Green, and Kerr changed basketball — blending outside shooting with physical toughness in ways that made the game worth watching again. If this is goodbye, it was worth every moment.
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You Probably Don’t Need Rocketbook Anymore (And That’s Actually Good News)
Rocketbook’s latest acquisition leaves its app future uncertain; here’s how educators can build a smarter, free note-capture workflow using Google Gemini for school and Claude for personal planning — no new hardware required.
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The Public Trust Under Pressure: What Congress Is Doing to Our Public Lands, and Why Theodore Roosevelt Would Not Recognize It
The 119th Congress is moving fast on public lands; and most Americans don’t know it’s happening. A breakdown of the key bills, the CRA resolutions, and why Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation legacy is more at risk than at any point in the last hundred years.
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Quote Of The Day
It’s a great day during the civil rights and civil liberties unit to talk about the time that Supreme Court Justice Brandeis quotes Pericles’s funeral speech to be able to explain Thomas Jefferson’s ideas as to why he wrote Virginia’s bill on the independence and freedom of religion. Because at its core, all three men…
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