Here’s the letter that the @UTAustin Faculty Council Executive Committee (which includes me) sent to our colleagues this morning respecting yesterday’s events:
https://t.co/Q9MgpW3AV8
Did you know that strawberries reproduce asexually?? I didn’t! 🍓Mrs. Hatch’s 8th graders will be researching some more organisms that reproduce this way today at Heights Middle Schools #knowledgematters
@NSTA PLI next week - Focus on elevating elementary science! Kick off Wednesday afternoon @GWCC_ATL, on-site or advance registration for Wed. We will apply recommendations of @NASEM Brilliance & Strengths report. @donnascience please share w/ Georgia teachers! DM me for more info
Starting today, if you say “Alexa, thank my driver,” your Amazon delivery driver will receive $5.
The driver who receives the most “Thank yous” will receive an extra $10,000
These folks work HARD during the Holiday season.
"For residents, especially homeowners, who wield a lot of power in cities, it means pushing City Council to incentivize a diverse mix of housing types throughout the city."
Opinion: The structural causes of homelessness need our attention https://t.co/Qw3VGoxZQK via @statesman
Twenty states are joining the Launch Years Initiative to support the scaling of #mathpathways from high school into postsecondary education.
#launchyears
https://t.co/iG0TspjNVN
hawleytrot [haw-lee-trot] • noun
A medium-pace retreat so as not to betray panic • "The Senator fled the Capitol at a hawleytrot"
hawleytrot [haw-lee-trot] • verb
To run for one's life, but in a nonchalant way • "He hawleytrotted to safety once the mob began to turn on him"
!!! Ukraine's Interior ministry asked residents to take down street signs in order to confuse oncoming Russian troops. The state road-signs agency went one step further. (Roughly: all directions are to "go fuck yourselves")