Covid-19 School Tracking Maps
The Canada COVID-19 School Tracker is an interactive map which is plotting COVID-19 outbreaks in schools across Canada. The map is designed ...
Land-Grab Universities
Many universities in the United States owe their existence to the theft of indigenous American land. The 1862 Morrill Act aimed to establish...
From the World to MIT
Students travel from countries across the world in order to study at MIT. This year nearly a quarter of MIT's overseas students come fro...
Textbook Provision in Kenya
Maria Renee Horn has mapped the number of subject textbooks available to students in public and private schools in Kenya. Textbook Provision...
Mapping School Segregation
Sixty years after the 'Brown vs Board of Education' Supreme Court ruling that state laws establishing separate public schools for bl...
Are You a Candyographer?
National Geographic has a new educational interactive to help teach you all about food production and consumption around the world. Planet F...
Mapping School Segregation
Sixty years after the 'Brown vs Board of Education' Supreme Court ruling that state laws establishing separate public schools for bl...
Who Is Hated the Most, and Who is Loved the Most?
By Leah and Tom Hi Folks: We did a little Sociology project. Maybe we were bored that day, but we hope this doesn’t bore you: The question w...
European E. coli Outbreak Holds Lessons for the U.S. Government
by Jeremy Fordham The European E. coli outbreak has people on both sides of the Atlantic on high alert. Americans have been critical of the...
Playing With Words
By Tom Kando To be human is, above all, to name things. Other things have been mentioned as our defining feature - the opposing thumb, our l...
Oh la la! What to Do with the 'Vous'?
by Madeleine Kando One of the parents at my dance studio asked me: 'Tu donnes des leçons le lundi prochain?' (Do you hold classes ne...
Talking Houses and Now History
by Marc Hersch I was prompted to write the following post (originally a comment) by Madeleine Kando’s very evocative, bittersweet essay, “If...
If Houses Could Speak..
by Madeleine Kando I went down memory lane again during my most recent visit to Amsterdam. I like to stroll down the old familiar streets,...
Originalism, or the Living Constitution?
By Tom Kando There is an interesting article by Jill Lepore in the January 17 issue of the New Yorker , titled The Commandments . It discuss...
Generalizations
By Tom Kando I tried to post this as a comment. Too long. Won’t accept it. Hence, a separate post: We are honored to post Prof. Ten Have’s e...
Prime Numbers, Large Numbers
By Tom Kando Although I am totally a non-mathematician, I have long been fascinated by prime numbers. I don’t know why. Here are some random...