Random Interesting Thoughts

Teaching should only be...

Post Day 2-session one.

Looks like there is only one legitimate purpose for teaching---helping kids learn about the functioning, care and manipulation of their own brains.

New Environmental Stories to Heed Biological Evolution

Tim Richards
Friday, May 15, 2009
Evolit Final Paper

New Environmental Stories to Heed Biological Evolution

Stories can conflict not just with one another, but also with the very biological processes that gave rise to them. Normally, in studying the theory or story of evolution, we focus on how it conflicts with other dominant cultural stories, especially with Christianity and its insistence that God created the world. This conflict is generally controversial enough to occupy the intellectual content of a course discussing the social aspects of the theory of evolution.

Live, Love, LAUGH

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"Evolutionary" and "non-evolutionary" genres: a valid divide?

Tim Richards
Monday, April 27, 2009
Evolit Paper 3

"Evolutionary" and "non-evolutionary" genres: a valid divide?

Zounds, Skyhooks, and Bootyliscious: The Evolution of Words

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Darwin in the classroom

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Gendered Criticism of Women’s and Men’s Poetry

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Feminism and Fencing: Metaphor and Reality

Dawn Hathaway

December 19, 2008

Critical Feminist Studies

Professor Anne Dalke

Feminism and Fencing: Metaphor and Reality

A Modest Proposal-Collaborative Paper

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Isa He, Courtney Jewett and Anna Melker

Paper #11

December 6, 2008

A Modest Proposal