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Now he’s alerted me to a new study and related lecture on what he and his co-authors are calling “peak farmland” — an impending stabilization of the amount of land required for food as humanity’s growth spurt plays out. While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and... | <urn:uuid:d30effea-1f5f-4ff1-874d-1ea41dc97c53> | {
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Drawing on a host of data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land-inten... |
Taking Play Seriously
By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Published: February 17, 2008
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By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Published: February 17, 2008
On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play -- not just the intense, joyous play of children, but play for all people, at all ages, at all times. (All species too; the lectu... | at the New York Public Library's main branch on 42nd Street. He created the institute in 1996, after more than 20 years of psychiatric practice and research persuaded him of the dangerous long-term consequences of play deprivation. In a sold-out talk at the library, he and Krista Tippett, host of the public-radio prog... |
LESSON PLANS AND TIMES MATERIALS FOR TEACHING:
The Academy Awards
The Film Industry
Film in Language Arts
Film in Social Studies/History
Film in Fine Arts
Technology in Film
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The Academy Awards
The Film Industry
Film in Language Arts
Film in Social Studies/History
Film in Fine Arts
Technology in Film
Lessons on these pages are for grades 6-12, written in consultation with Bank Street College of Education. Each one is paired with a Times article... | Present
And the Oscar Goes to...
Examining and Creating Criteria for Oscar-Worthy Films
And the Winner Is...
Exploring the Role of the Academy Awards and Film in American Society
LESSONS ON THE FILM INDUSTRY:
Creating Film Festivals that Inform and Entertain Audiences
The Sundance Kids
Exploring What Makes the Indepen... |
A.J. NesteBatteries at a station on a Philadelphia commuter line capture excess current when trains brake and store the power for use when a train accelerates.
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A giant battery bank installed by the side of the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s subway tracks a little over a month ago is saving about nine megawa... | , converting torque into current. Before the battery bank was installed, some of that current was returned to the third rail; but if the voltage got too high, it was shunted instead into a giant electric heater under the train, which simply dissipated the energy as heat.
Now the battery captures excess current, about 3... |
A few months ago we wrote about Kristianstad, Sweden, an area that now uses biomass to generate all of its heat and some of its electricity. That city pioneered use of this renewable technology, and gradually biomass evolved from a niche component of its fuel mix to the backbone of its fuel supply.
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A number of rural ar... | in rural America, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is touring the Midwest, seeding biomass projects as he goes.
On Friday, the departments of Agriculture and Energy announced that up to $30 million would go toward supporting research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy and “high-value biobased product... |
Scientists have long projected that areas north and south of the tropics will grow drier in a warming world –- from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia.
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These regions are too far from the equator to benefit from the moist columns of heate... | measured a rapid recent expansion of desert-like barrenness in the subtropical oceans –- in places where surface waters have also been steadily warming. There could be a link to human-driven climate change, but it’s too soon to tell, the scientists said.
[UPDATED below, 3/6, 1 p..m] Read more… |
The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to the latest satellite analysis of the warming region.
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The following video gives you a fascinating view of one... | a new state in which seasonal ice, which forms in winter and melts in the summer, dominates. This is the main reason biologists have concerns for the long-term welfare of polar bears, which have a harder time sustaining their weight and reproducing when summertime ice is thin. At the same time, the shift bodes well fo... |
The rare greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, is even more imperiled than scientists thought, a new study suggests. By analyzing DNA sampled from cutthroat trout specimens pickled in ethanol for 150 years, comparing it with the genes of today’s cutthroat populations, and cross-referencing more than 40,000 ... | <urn:uuid:ca711742-a3fe-43e7-b0e2-17d456553713> | {
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The study, published on Monday in t... |
Exotic pests are nothing new. The hemlock wooly adelgid, which has turned woods from green to brown from the Poconos to the Great Smoky Mountains, arrived 70 years ago on a single hemlock a Virginia landowner imported for his Japanese-style garden.
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But while federal agriculture officials struggle with adelgid and other... | and even cut roses from the Netherlands, are under consideration by federal officials, said Faith Campbell, a senior policy representative for the conservancy.
Europe is just one part of the $500 million international plant exporting business that has producers from Colombia to China sending more than three billion pl... |
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon provide the Second Sunday acrostic puzzles every second week. If you think that’s all they do, you need to read my interview with them from last year. This weekend we are treated to one of their Cryptic Crosswords.
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I try to be careful writing about these puzzles because I’d rather not give t... | ’re on your own.
1 Across is “From stem to stern, tossed in the Sound (10).” The parenthetical number at the end tells us the number of letters in the answer. The trick to these puzzles is realizing that, for most clues, there are two parts that each point to the same answer. Often is it difficult to separate those par... |
The Energy Information Administration has released “World Shale Gas Resources,” an important commissioned report providing an assessment of how much natural gas is locked in shale deposits in 14 regions around the world. (Here’s its overview of shale gas in the United States.) Here’s a map of the surveyed regions:
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The ... | diverted to making biofuels.
I sent the following query to a batch of people immersed in assessing and/or developing the world’s energy menu but it’s a query for you, as well, of course (I’ve tweaked it to remove some e-mail shorthand):
I would greatly appreciate some reflection from you on the new shale gas assessmen... |
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.
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According to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, cleanup crews working near the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, “dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers.”
CROOKED CLEANUP (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima http://t.co/vZ7BFMC9
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CROOKED CLEANUP (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima http://t.co/vZ7BFMC9
A team of journal... | aware that they were breaking rules, the paper reported:
From Dec. 11 to 18, four Asahi reporters spent 130 hours observing work at various locations in Fukushima Prefecture. At 13 locations in Naraha, Iitate and Tamura, workers were seen simply dumping collected soil and leaves as well as water used for cleaning rath... |
Eleven years ago today, Al Gore, for one important moment, was the most powerful man in our republic. The day before, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, halted the partial recount of presidential ballots in Florida that Gore had requested. But that did not mean the 2000 presidential election was over. George W. Bush cou... | <urn:uuid:7e75fcc4-8eeb-493e-8492-a15ccfde332c> | {
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Developed in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education for grades 6-12.
THE COURSE OF THE WAR, 2003-PRESENT
Reflecting on Five Years of War in Iraq(3/19/2008)
The Voice of a New Generation
Examining Iraqi Youth Perspectives (3/5/2008)
A Fresh Start?
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THE COURSE OF THE WAR, 2003-PRESENT
Reflecting on Five Years of War in Iraq(3/19/2008)
The Voice of a New Generation
Examining Iraqi Youth Perspectives (3/5/2008)
A Fresh Start?
Discussing the Implications of a Resignation at the Depart... | 0/2006)
Same News, Different Stories
Evaluating Breaking News of Al-Zarqawi's Death (6/9/2006)
Examining New Developments in the Iraq War (11/10/2004)
Examining Controversies of International Humanitarian Law (10/22/2004)
Justice for Whom?
Assessing the Reasons to Bring Saddam Hussein to Trial (7/5/2004)
Taking Stock o... |
Note: This lesson was originally published on an older version of The Learning Network; the link to the related Times article will take you to a page on the old site.
Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.
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Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.
Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students use prototypical fantasy themes to create an original r... | movie “Dungeons and Dragons” by reading and discussing the article “‘Dungeons and Dragons’: After D and D, You May Need R and R.”
3. As a class, create the outline for a role-playing game based on their own community.
4. In groups, create character profiles for the game.
5. Write a dialogue between two of the characte... |
More women are obtaining Ph.D.’s in science than ever before, but those women — largely because of pressures from having a family — are far more likely than their male counterparts to “leak” out of the research science pipeline before obtaining tenure at a college or university.
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That’s the conclusion of a study by rese... | 5 percent less likely to enter a tenure-track position after receiving a Ph.D. in science than are married men with young children and Ph.D.’s in science. Not only that, the married women with young children are 28 percent less likely than women without children to achieve tenure in the sciences.
Moreover, women Ph.D.’... |
Jane Brody on health and aging.
Since the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease.
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Since the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease.
Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have i... | drugs available to normalize blood pressure, why are so many people still at increased risk of disease, disability and premature death? Hypertension experts offer a few common, and correctable, reasons:
Jane Brody speaks about hypertension.
¶ About 20 percent of affected adults don’t know they have high blood pressure... |
Soon he came upon a peasant singing and scything. ‘You there, varlet,’ said Shrek. ‘Why so blithe?’” – William Steig, “Shrek”
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The coming Congressional debate over fiscal policy is sure to feature a wide array of proposals, some of which would hit certain taxpayers harder than others.
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"token_count"... | The coming Congressional debate over fiscal policy is sure to feature a wide array of proposals, some of which would hit certain taxpayers harder than others.
But one idea being floated by Congressional negotiators, as described in an article by The New York Times’s Jonathan Weisman on Thursday, is hard to defend from ... | .
The math behind these calculations is not all that complicated. It’s just a matter of understanding how marginal tax rates work.
Take an American who earns $400,000 a year in taxable income. (This is roughly the threshold at which a taxpayer reaches the top 1 percent of households.)
The top marginal federal income ta... |
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