Eric E Castro

Urban sprawl is bad; intellectual sprawl is good


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    My next gig, Friday, February 13, 2015:

    How Stereotypes Affect Academic Achievement In Every School


    Think of a racial stereotype you’ve heard. Think of a …

    Chilling-effect — In constitutional law, the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of a a constitutional right, especially one protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, by the potential or threatened …

    Few will understand the references inherent in this, but I post it here as some strange, permanent testament to what I consider a wholly undeserved honor. To share a tweet with these three – Amy Ramponi, Steve Jones, and Chuck Shalhorn – is simply …

    …our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…

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    It must be January in San Francisco. 

    How do I know? It’s not the 60* highs … it’s that I had my first Track & Field nightmare last night…

    On Voicemail

    I believe the days of voicemail are over; the technology – like that of the fax machine – has been supplanted in both form and function. As a recipient, listening to voicemail is far less efficient than reading a text-based message; and as a caller, …

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    LMS Committee Reflection

    [ed. note: This had been posted privately in 2013, and now that sufficient time has passed, I’m making it public.]

    I am a non-voting member[1] of our Learning Management System (LMS) investigation committee[2], which is charged with two “basic” …

    Today, I earned the coveted Get Out of Hell free card by helping a nun change her flat tire.

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    Waiting for the outbound 71 Haight … time does not move this rapidly…

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Why I Choose Uber

UBER 4U

Without exception, every trip I have taken in a taxicab has been uncomfortable, regardless of city or country. It has involved one or more of the following:

  • difficulty in hailing a cab,
  • discomforting drivers[1],
  • drivers talking on their cellphone …
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The 50 books I read in 2014.

I re-read some classics, which I really enjoyed (like Red Harvest and The Hobbit), found some new greats (like How We Got to Now …

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This is how my family has sung “Happy Birthday” for generations.

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“I think as we get older our Christmas list gets smaller and the things we really want for the holiday can’t be bought”

Amen.

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The world goes by on a rainy day at 24th & Harrison.

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As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126

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For the first time, I feel the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator lesson went particularly well. Rather than simply lecture on the topic and rather than have …

On Meetings

I had reason recently to reflect on ways in which information is communicated within schools. I will argue that it’s the same calculus whether planning for class instruction, departmental meetings, or whole-school communication, and that comes down …

If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn’t trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.

— <p>Chris Mooney, <a href=“ …

Sensation & Perception Psychat

We’ll start with introductions. Let us know what you teach and where you teach it (city if that’s …

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Miller-Fleig 2014 Collegial Observation

The above is a write-up (linked here also) of a class-observation of my Psych class, done by a colleague.

In general, I felt the class went …

On the passing of Sr Margaret Mary Dillon, DC