LA Times publishing data on individual teacher performance
In coming months, The [Los Angeles] Times will publish a series of articles and a database analyzing individual teachers' effectiveness in the nation's second-largest school district — the first time,...
View ArticleKaljakellunta
Hundreds of people in the Vantaa riverdrinking beer on cheap rubber boats. It's kaljakellunta (youtube), 'the beer floating'
View ArticleErosion footage
A rock face may have stood in a place for a very long time but that does not mean it will stay there forever. It may crumble and fall and there may be people with cameras around. SLYT.
View ArticleLove is stronger than hate
After an Islamist party won * the first post-revolutionary election in Tunisia, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo* ran a 'Sharia Hebdo' issue lampooning the result. The prophet Mohammed was...
View ArticleChess with no opening book
A major element of serious chess play is the study of openings* -- of known series of moves from the starting position whose effects to the later stages of the game are well established through...
View ArticleSyrian defence ministers killed in a bomb attack
BBC: Three men at the heart of President Assad's defence team have died in a suicide bombing, Syrian state TV says.NYT: Blast Kills Core Syrian Security Officials. Articles mention the attacker being...
View ArticleTruck crash landing
Recommended procedures in the event of being propelled through the windshield of your truck, exhibit A. Youtube.
View ArticleChaconne from Bach's Partita no. 2 for violin, on the hammered dulcimer
Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita no. 2 for violin (BWV 1004), played on the hammered dulcimer by Mihail Leonchik. Youtube.
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