Items to share: 25 November

Sorry for the delay!

Education Focus:

• Why memorising facts can be a keystone to learning | Teacher Network | Guardian ..

• Noam Chomsky Spells Out the Purpose of Education | Open Culture

• Teaching is bread making | Sam Shepherd's Blog

Other Business:

• House Style: Editing Brazil | New Writing | Granta Magazine On how copy-editing transforms the way you look at a text.

• Giving thanks for C.S. Lewis (by Joel Miller) ...who of course died on 22 November 1963--the same day as someone else whose name escapes me.

• Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb... Not exactly a glowing review

• Opera en Alto Palermo (versión completa) - YouTube  Glorious flashmob performance

• Book Review: The Half-Life of Facts - WSJ.com On the all the well-known facts, which aren't.

• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside ... Rambling, but a great and scholarly story.

• The International Journal of Indexing Really

• Dilbert comic strip for 11/21/2012 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive... On coaching/ mentoring/ supervision

• Maverick Philosopher: At the Supermarket: I Think of Hegel's Logic as one does

• Some medicines that don’t work. Why doesn’t the MHRA tell us honestly? A typically trenchant but informative piece from David Colquhoun.