A New York Times video piece about the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School rugby team.

[From The New York Times - Video Library - Home Page]

The Oregonian front page…

Originally uploaded by timlauer

A friend pointed me to a publication called Lapham’s Quarterly. Laphman’s is a quarterly publication that targets a single topic in each issue. The contributors are contemporary and historical writers.

LAPHAM’S QUARTERLY sets the story of the past in the frame of the present. Four times a year the editors seize upon the most urgent question then current in the headlines - foreign war, financial panic, separation of church and state - and find answers to that question from authors whose writings have passed the test of time.

You can learn more about the format of Lapham’s Quarterly here. The latest issue is titled Ways of Learning and deals with education. The preamble , Playing with Fire, is available online…

Cousins trip to p. Patch

Originally uploaded by lydiamariadelapatafria

A student volunteer from the University of Oregon helping us paint a mural near our lunch room at Lewis…

I stumbled on to this via an item in Tom Hoffman’s Google Reader Shared Items list. I’m finding Shared Items to be one of my best sources of interesting items found on the web.

Of All The People In All The World (UK) uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statisitcs to startling and powerful life.

Each grain of rice = one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not.
Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics

- the populations of towns and cities
- the number of doctors, the number of soldiers
- the number of people born each day, the number who die
- all the people who have walked on the moon
- deaths in the holocaust.

The statistics are arranged in labelled piles creating an ever changing landscape of rice. The statistics and their juxtapositions can be moving, shocking, celebratory, witty and thought provoking.
[From Stan's Cafe Theatre Company: Of All The People In All The World]