Agenda Overflow 2024

Riddle: The Missing Dollar Paradox

Riddle: Decide for Yourself

Where I first saw this image: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719

Is the BBC website a credible source of news? Is it credible enough that you will accept this photograph has not been altered after it was taken? The optical phenomenon is described in ways that sound SORT OF credible, but if the BBC had published it on April 01, maybe we wouldn’t be so likely to accept its veracity. Read the article. Decide for yourself. Leave observations below.

As part of your Agenda notes for today, evaluate how you feel about the credibility of the photograph and the reported explanations for it.

LINKS TO LATER SOURCES:

What possible explanation could there be for two people to be buried in this manner?

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Check your answer at the LINK

Riddle: What’s Gerrymandering?

The value of your vote is in jeopardy. In 23 states, over the last year, regulations have been tightened to make casting a vote in an election more difficult. MORE DIFFICULT. Everything else in life, including psychotherapy, can be done on your phone. But elections, apparently, have to be made harder every few years, are only legitimate if done in person, and should be reserved for people who can stand up to strict challenges to their own legitimacy.

For those of us who CAN and DO vote in every election, when we vote for a legislative office such as the Senate or the House, we are reminded that legislators (at least the members of the party in charge) have the power to draw their own voting district maps.

Here’s why it matters.

Annotated Bibliography

I may mention this more than once in our last weeks together:

Your Proposal+5 becomes your
Annotated Bibliography!

As you gather your final sources together, add them to your Proposal+5 post
using the same format you used for the first 5 sources.
When you have 10, or 15, whichever works for your particular area of research,
CHANGE THE NAME of the post to Bibliography—Username
and add it to your Portfolio Username category. It’s that simple.

Portfolio Task:
Self-Reflective Statement

Deep Dive Lyrical Analysis

Not that you have much choice (well, you could walk out!), but I hope you’ll indulge me in listening to a Ben Folds song whose lyrics I both very much admire and nevertheless ruthlessly critique.

I do so partly to amuse myself and you, but importantly to encourage you that I am brutal even to work I really love. So much about this song is genius, and so much of it makes me cringe.

Listen along and read along, please.

The Luckiest (Ben Folds Five)