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A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences - 0 views

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    When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words - not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long - and controversial - history in U.S. schools.
markfrankel18

Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams | Brain Pickings - 2 views

  • Schematics: A Love Story — a truly unique, in the most uncontrived sense of the word, project exploring love, memory, and time through 43 schematic diagrams drawn from old books and paired with poetic text that gleans new meaning from the geometric forms. From them emerges a layered and paradoxical narrative that is at once very personal and very universal, a kind of forlorn optimism about what it means to be human and to follow the heart’s sometimes purposeful, sometimes erratic, usually unpredictable will in pursuing the deepest of human connections.
Lawrence Hrubes

The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar - Michelle Navarre Cleary - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    "A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons-those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech-don't help and may even hinder students' efforts to become better writers. Yes, they need to learn grammar, but the old-fashioned way does not work."
Andrea Barlien

100 Diagrams that changed the world - 0 views

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    this is from the Brain Pickings Blog
Lawrence Hrubes

Scientists Unveil New 'Tree of Life' - The New York Times - 1 views

  • A team of scientists unveiled a new tree of life on Monday, a diagram outlining the evolution of all living things. The researchers found that bacteria make up most of life’s branches.
  • In his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin envisioned evolution like a branching tree.
  • In the 1970s, Carl Woese of the University of Illinois and his colleagues published the first “universal tree of life” based on this approach. They presented the tree as three great trunks.
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  • Patrick Forterre, an evolutionary biologist at the Pasteur Institute in France, agreed that bacteria probably make up much of life’s diversity. But he had concerns about how Dr. Banfield and her colleague built their tree. He argued that genomes assembled from DNA fragments could actually be chimeras, made up of genes from different species. “It’s a real problem,” he said.
Michael Peters

Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms - 1 views

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    Genetic terms, described by real scientists, with diagrams, videos and multimedia.
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