Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)

• Brilliant 10: The Butterfly Pharmacist | Popular Science

  tags: butterfly monarch butterflies

• Facebook by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

  Awesome infographic re: Facebook

  tags: facebook INFOGRAPHIC socialmedia statistics data

• BBC News – 7 billion people and you: What’s your number?

  tags: population infographic bbc worldhistory

• Computer scientist cracks mysterious ‘Copiale Cipher’

  Great topic for a possible research paper

  tags: research paper researchpaperideas

• Chaucer

  Quick summary of Chaucer’s life and death

  tags: chaucer canterbury tales

• ‘What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger’: The Supercut (VIDEO)

  Great video to use as a reminder of why to avoid cliche phrases.

  tags: cliche videolessons

• Ben Loory: “The TV” : The New Yorker

  Great short story to use in class

  tags: shortstory

• Ed Shevlin Polishes His Irish While Collecting the Trash – NYTimes.com

  Love this article about an unexpected scholar.

  tags: irish nytimes article

• Lesson Plan | Using Opening Lines From the Magazine’s ‘Lives’ Column as Writing Prompts – NYTimes.com

  tags: writing prompts

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