Polar bear fur is transparent, not white, and their skin is black.
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Polar bear fur is transparent, not white, and their skin is black.
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It looks like they publicly share the most recent version of the crosswalk at this page, which makes for a handy public resource! github.com/UCBoulder/ce...
*there’s
Definitely unintuitive that ACT uses CEEB but I’m glad they’re one less ID floating out there!
I haven’t used it yet, but I know some kind folks put together a crosswalk between CEEB codes (which I believe are what ACT uses) and NCES school IDs at github.com/UCBoulder/ce...
Somehow, I managed to score 2 goals off of throw-ins and 1 the normal way. (I played sweeper/defense.)
In middle school, I scored more soccer goals with my hands (via throw-ins) than I did with my feet
I’m not an expert (grew up in NC but no longer live there), but I think this should fall squarely within the margin where a candidate can request a recount (which I think is 0.5% for statewide offices and within 1% otherwise)
OH MY
With 100% of precincts reporting, Sam Page defeats Phil Berger by…
TWO VOTES
#ncpol
Two votes??!
I’ve always enjoyed this one from Grandpa Simpson: “I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. And it’ll happen to you!”
Providence's biggest snowstorm by the obs
Providence RI up to 32.8 inches through 1p which is the biggest snowstorm on record there. Beats 28.6 inches Feb 6-7, 1978. Records begin 1904. (edited)
A serious oversight on my part. Second only to my missing that apparently some publications stylize it as LeisureTowne (I presume the trademark is still being processed)!
“Leisuretowne is a retirement village, with a standing rule of having prospective residents reach the age of 55 before purchasing a home.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure...
The more you know…
I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Almost a month after abruptly dismantling exhibits about slavery from the President’s House, National Park Service employees began reinstalling the panels late morning on Thursday ahead of a court-imposed deadline.
Story w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social & Maggie Prosser. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
walgreens sign that says algreens
let's stay together
He lived to 101.
From Harry Bernstein’s 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship biography: “I have proven with all this that age need not be a barrier to a useful and creative life. I hope to be able to reach one hundred. I hope to write more books. But with all of this I will never lose the memory of the one thing that gave me the strength and inspiration to accomplish what I have done thus far, my wife Ruby. Memories are supposed to dim with the passing of years. But my memory of her grows richer and deeper each year. I can still see her as vividly as I always did, her lovely, oval face with the smile always on it, her soft, dark eyes looking up at me with such love in them. Her presence will always be there with me until I too am no longer here.” https://www.gf.org/fellows/harry-bernstein/
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years.
I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.
As expected, the annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered estimates of job growth in earlier months. BLS now says we added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000. #NumbersDay
If you know the moral thing for an organization to do, feels important to state it, even if you recognize that the org likely won't do it. We should recognize the way that powerful orgs historically capitulated to censorship and suppression. Shame only works when we remember the transgressions.
Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.
BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth.
The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1.
www.peer-center.org/research/sum...
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
Ascendium Education Philanthropy is providing support for researchers working in postsecondary education and workforce development to attend #AEFP2026! @aefpweb.bsky.social
Details and link to application here: aefpweb.org/ascendium-aw...
#EdResearch
I needed to make a temporary variable for the cost of room and board at colleges, so I instinctively named it “room_temp” and it took me a full two minutes to realize what an amazing variable name I’d created.
