The extraordinary friendship of an elderly songwriter and the precocious child of his single-parent neighbor is at the heart of this novel that darts back and forth through the decades, from the 1960s to the era of Brexit. The first in a projected…

Terry Elliott FOMO to the max. I have not read even one of these. Have you? Which one would you read first? I would go for ‘Grant’ by Ron Chernow. Grant was aptly named Ulysses because he did save the republic.Besides, he was Mark Twain’s hero.

From Newton’s mechanical calculations to Einstein’s general and special relativity to the baffling indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the discipline of physics has become increasingly arcane and complex, and less and less governed by orderly laws.

Terry Elliott Well done–an 8 minute map of physics. I think I want to create a similar map for my pedagogies and for my classes this spring. Really valuable as a process and a product.

LINK: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk ➚ | Posted by: Ricardo Bilton | November 30, 2017 A new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism offers a bit more insight into what’s driving distrust in news organizations…

Terry Elliott Crowdsourcing the issue of trust. Fascinating. Trust is a hard to come be, easy to lose proposition. Look at the full report and find out more. I like that this is a worldwide report.

When I think about history, the picture in my head is that of a roiling canvas of many choppy, intertwingled narrative streams, enveloped by many-hued nebulous fogs of mood and temper. Star-like cosmic irruption-events, ranging from discoveries to…

Terry Elliott Rao came up with this gem: ‘a Dark Age is an age where the dominant grand narrative is a closed one, but there is subversive vitality in the margins.’ Read Rao so that you know where you stand–in the center or on the margins. I’m on the margins.

If you are like me, you hate missing something important especially when it comes to doing something correctly: like writing. There are TONS of things to consider when we sit down to help our students write, but there’s ONE missing element that I…

Terry Elliott You can do the same exercise with a hashtag and the annotation tool, Hypothes.is. Way simpler.

It’s a warm summer afternoon in the Tanzanian village of Lupiro, and Mikkel Brydegaard is crouching in a brick hut, trying to fix a broken laser. Next to him, on a tall tripod, three telescopes point through a window at a tree in the distance. A…

Terry Elliott It is all connected, that’s why. Now what is this ‘it’ and how does ‘it’ connect.

I first heard of Dr. Leyla Acaroglu when she started publishing her Tools For Systems Thinker series on Medium. The first article made the rounds in my various feeds and explained the 6 fundamental concepts of systems thinking. It was followed by…

Terry Elliott “I’ve done what the system told me to do.I got a job.I got a career.I’ve done all those things.Now, I feel deeply conflicted about the kind of world that we’re living in and the way I’m contributing to that.’ Unschooling, sistuhs and bruhs.Love complexity