A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos.  But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn.  Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.

If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.

cfk has bookflurries on Weds. nights
pico has literature for kossacks on Tues. nights, but it's on hiatus (although he had one diary last week, and promises to return in August!)

sarahnity has books by kossacks, now its own series, on Tuesday nights

I've not been doing as much reading as usual..... there's this daily Kos addiction, and I am trying to get my statistical consulting business going.... but I gotta try to do more book reading, too.

Math mania will be an occasional series.  This post is an edited version of one I wrote for Education/Uprising, more than a year ago. A list of earlier diaries is here).

What if kids loved to learn?

What if at the end of class, they wanted it to be longer, and kept the teacher in the hallway answering questions?

What if they learned that coupling their imaginations to their powers of reasoning would give them a tool of awesome power for exploring the cosmos?

What if an 11 year old got so excited by his insights that he yelled out

OH WOW! I get this now!

What if all this happened in math class?

droogie's was so good, I had to do my own.

A while back, I wrote a brief series called Math Mania.

It never really took off, but I'm going to try again.

This series is for anyone.  There will be no advanced math used.  Nothing beyond high school, usually not beyond grade school.  But it'll go places you didn't go in elementary school or high school.

If you "hate math" please read on.
If you love math, please read on.

A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos.  But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn.  Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.

If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.

cfk has bookflurries on Weds. nights
pico has literature for kossacks on Tues. nights, but it's on hiatus

sarahnity has books by kossacks, now its own series, on Tuesday nights

I've not been doing as much reading as usual..... there's this daily Kos addiction, and I am trying to get my statistical consulting business going.... but I gotta try to do more book reading, too.

A lot of diaries about abortion, or debate about abortion, includes people positing that no one is pro-abortion.

I am.  I'm a married man with two kids who is pro-abortion.

More below the fold

The title was going to be "Famous Americans who were pure in thought and deed".  But the rules forbid blank diaries.

So.... Instead..... I present

Even my heroes have warts

Yes, I do have heroes.  I am not so cynical as to believe that there are no heroes.  Some of my heroes are even (gasp) politicians.  In fact, one of the reasons I'm on this site is because I think politicians can be heroes.

It's always going to be a dirty game though.

A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos.  But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn.  Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.

We haven't done mysteries in a while.  From the search, the last time was more than a year ago.

So, here we go!

If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.

cfk has bookflurries on Weds. nights
pico has literature for kossacks on Tues. nights, but it's on hiatus

sarahnity has books by kossacks, now its own series, on Tuesday nights

I've not been doing as much reading as usual..... there's this daily Kos addiction, and I am trying to get my statistical consulting business going.... but I gotta try to do more book reading, too.

Hi all

Today is my birthday.  I'm 49.

I'm a pretty active kossack.... below the fold, year in review.

In the comments, feel free to add stuff about your year

There are a lot of myths about Black turnout.  Fortunately, there's also data from the Census Bureau. I had to work with it a little to get the figures I wanted, but it's really fascinating.  

A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos.  But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn.  Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.

If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.

cfk has bookflurries on Weds. nights
pico has literature for kossacks on Tues. nights, but it's on hiatus

sarahnity has books by kossacks, now its own series, on Tuesday nights

I've not been doing as much reading as usual..... there's this daily Kos addiction, and I am trying to get my statistical consulting business going.... but I gotta try to do more book reading, too.

Many people here are vegetarians.  Good for them.  Really. Eating meat is bad for the planet and bad for your body.

Some people here have given up their cars.  Good for them. I've never had a car, I don't know how to drive.  

Many people here are radical in their hopes for change.  Good for us.  I'm one of those who wants radical change in this country.

But I'm not vegetarian.  And attempts to make people vegetarian often backfire, as will attempts to make people radical.

But we can embrace change, and eating less meat is better than eating more --- even if it's not as good as being a vegetarian.  Driving less is better than driving more.  And some change is better than no change (at least if it's the right change)

Just for fun, and interest, here is my list of the 25 best things ever said.

Not in order, except for the last one, which is my favorite

A month ago I ran this diary.  It did well.  People asked me to do it again in a month.  So, here it is.  This is not just a cut and paste of that, it's updated and edited.

Updated, with some of the suggestions from the comments last time
Edited, in that now I am only including media directly related to politics and policy and such (in the interests of space) and I've reformatted it a bit