Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

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The ravine bridge on campus took home some hardware this year! The bridge recently won the IES Award of Merit, the FC Baker Award of Excellence for the local IES Section, and an exterior lighting section award.

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RT @Ryality
Watching LOTR with the family and they keep asking me why I’m laughing and I don’t know how to tell them it’s this

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A reminder of the word 'hibernacle': a winter retreat or hiding place, from which a hibernating animal might poke out its nose before deciding to go back in.

RT @ghweldon
Bad news guys my true love has just been jailed on 5 counts of jewelry theft, 23 counts of bird smuggling, and 50 counts of human trafficking

RT @SteveStuWill
One of the best animal videos of 2020: a termite trail running parallel to an ant trail, each protected by a column of soldiers. HT @Mehdi_Moussaid

RT @alex_zee
I'm old enough to remember when this used to get you tear gassed. https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1341136393255325696

Life hack: those pillow shams that come with every comforter can be used as jumbo placemats.

Spotted by an alum.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21765779/converting-binary-to-decimal-integer-output/63523570#63523570

RT @poserhontas
The age old question

RT @LauraJedeed
The far right protesters keep saying this is how Nazi Germany started and they're right but not in the way they mean

RT @shouldhaveaduck

To steal Anna Ptaszynski's excellent joke on @nosuchthing (about a different case), "That's why they call it 'arse-nic'."

Also, points to the subheadline writer for the word "secreted".

RT @ohhelloitsmax
For the next stimulus, everyone gets to pick one toy from their dentist’s toy box.

Hear me out: Zoom naps.

I know from experience that, if it's not worth points, almost no students will do it. Maybe that changes if nothing is worth points? Maybe?

I hope the STEM authors to come will address these questions.

3/3

Having a good experience and growing as an individual are great, but what about being able to solve problems in the field? I don't want the heart surgeon who's read Virginia Woolf; I want the one who knows which valve is which and how to repair them!

2/3

About halfway through the #ungrading book. It makes a very compelling case that grades are bad, but I still have two big concerns:

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I've designed a small card game about Samoan fireknife dancing (#SivaAfi). Anyone know of a culturally inclusive publisher? Meta-advice, links happily accepted.

@gengelstein @elizhargrave @Nick__Bentley @ShutUpShow @Gamefreakgeek @boardgamerpinup @eric_lang @xpelicious @gilhova

RT @ZoologyGal
Either you get it. Or you don't. 🤣