A quick post to say that the Learning & the Brain conference (Web-Connected Minds) last weekend in Arlington VA was terrific. A whole lot to think about. And in order for me to process all the information, I’m going to start working through my notes and get some stuff out here over the next week. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Learning & the Brain – Brain Dump
Posted in books, education, tagged #LB32, books, education, Google Docs, Learning & the Brain, summer reading, Twitter on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hungry Monkey
Posted in food, tagged books, children, cooking, parenting on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Hungry Monkey, by Matthew Amster-Burton
Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa over at Ideas in Food turned me on to this book Hungry Monkey with their review a few weeks ago. And when my sister-in-law read the cover and subtitle, she laughed and asked if it had been written for me. A Food Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater? Yup. I really enjoyed the book, and I’m looking forward to making several of the recipes for the kid at some point. Author Matthew Amster-Burton has an easygoing voice, and he writes with wit, self awareness, and humor. He explains how parental anxiety about baby food can be overwhelming, and that the research out there on allergens, the timing of food introductions, and food philosophy (if you can call it that) varies hugely. Then you realize that over the course of recorded history (and before that too, I’m sure) parents have, after breastfeeding, been feeding kids adult food in some form, with developmentally appropriate degrees of mush, chunks, and spice. And it’s likely that over that span of time there have been kids that have been picky eaters. It’s not a new phenomenon.
Summer Reading
Posted in books, food, tagged baking, books, charcuterie, cooking, copyright, darwin, gardening, summer reading on June 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
With summer break here, I’m looking forward to reading several books that have been in the stack for a while. Just before school ended, I got several recommendations on books to read, and I’d like to get through some of those (see Books page for the complete list, ever evolving). I’m sure I’ll add more [...]
naming
Posted in about, tagged about, books, childhood, ecology, Education / Science, nature on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The foreseeable outcome is that in the year 2150, when human population peaks at around eleven billion, alpha predators will have ceased to exist — except behind chain-link fencing, high-strength glass, and steel bars. After that time, as memory recedes and the zoo populations become ever more genetically attenuated, ever more conveniently docile, ever more [...]
