Everyone enjoys visiting Google and seeing a clever doodle celebrating a famous figure or event in human history, but the feminist collective SPARK noticed one glaring problem: the doodles didn’t reflect human diversity. They write: Now that the SPARK team has (almost) recovered from being totally mind-blown by the statistics we’ve uncovered, we’re demanding that Google make […]
The creators of a new app called Spritz are claiming to have developed a program that will greatly increase our ability to read quickly, something seemingly quite necessary in an era in which we read 54,000 words a day. Not everyone agrees that’s possible: Keith Rayner, a psycholinguist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told […]
200, 000 have applied for a one way ticket to Mars, according to Mental Floss. Mars One Way” documents the thoughts and theories of Five hopeful Mars One astronauts as they contemplate the reality of leaving planet Earth forever, for a new home on Mars. This movie on Vimeo explains why some would do so.
We will have three weeks of writing for AP Language before spring break, with a slight complication. You will have the Louv analysis essay, two rhetorical devices, and one research paper due. March 9 at 1:00 p.m.–revision of the Carson analysis essay with CRISPING/cheat sheet considered March 16 at 1:00 p.m.– 2 rhetorical devices (You may […]
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