Last night, JP was frightened by the various things that go bump in the night and refused to go to sleep. After several hours of comforting him, singing songs, removing myriad frightening objects–books, toys, the vacuum cleaner I left there earlier in the day–I left him get in bed with me. Before anyone jumps the …
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I came across this headline at the Times’s Ideas Blog: “British Teeth Among the Healthiest in Europe”, and assumed it had to be a joke. As most of us know, poking fun at British dental hygiene is a comedic staple worthy of immortalization by the Simpson’s (see Big Book of British Smiles) and others. Apparently …
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By rights, I should let my colleague Matt answer the question posed in this headline. He does, after all, match his pink socks with his pink underwear, and he likes nothing better than being spanked on the ass by five-year-old boys. But I figured he may be biased on the topic, so I decided to …
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The results of Lord Mayor Bloomberg’s grand experiment in forced mathematical learning have arrived, and the results are shocking: Apparently if you require public school teachers to use testing as the one and only metric for learning in New York City, if you stake your political credibility on getting those scores up, if you even …
