If you remember the old 'Reach out - reach out and touch someone' long distance ad jingle, you probably just sang those words in your head! Look back at some of these vintage TV commercials, and find out how the ditty came together here!| Click Americana
✍🏼 Leigh Botts's favorite writer in the world is a children books' author, Boyd Henshaw. Since Leigh was in second grade, he has been writing letters to "Dear Mr. Henshaw". At first because of his teacher's assignment, but then he keeps writing because his mother told him too. Being a famous writer, you would think that Henshaw would ignore these childish letters; one in particular containing a list of questions that Leigh made Henshaw answer. But funnily, Henshaw wrote back with his lis...| Fanda Classiclit
The practical test for my CAPES examination took place at a lycée in Lyon, in the Croix-Rousse area. A new lycée, with potted plants in the buildings for the teaching and administrative staff, and …| This Reading Life
Before starting detailed write-ups on some of the games released under SSI’s short-lived RapidFire label, I wanted to give a brief overview of the brand and the titles it introduced between 1982 and 1983. By 1982, Strategic Simulations Inc. had firmly established itself as the premier publisher of computer wargames. Founded in 1979 by Joel […]| Retro365
Burning The Ground Exclusive Let the glitterball spin a little faster today—because the boys have definitely come to town! Today’s Disco Friday and Pride Month pick is an unapologetic slab of Hi-NR…| Burning The Ground: DjPaulT's 80's and 90's Remixes
Tune: “When I Was A Lad” (H. M. S. Pinafore)—Anne Braude, “The Ballad of Conan” in Niekas #31 (1983), 41 The first fandom of Robert E. Howard’s Conan of Cimmeria arose…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
The current policies give unique license to private citizens—academic scientists in universities—to allocate and use public funds as they see fit, so long as it contributes to the interests of science as defined by scientists. This is a license to commercially exploit public resources for private gain. It is imperative to forestall the type of elite control of science which is now taking place on the nation's campuses. To do this effectively, we must examine the history of the postwar pat...| Science for the People Archives
Basic Mathematics for the people means more than the ability to calculate. It means the ability to reason quantitatively, the ability to use numbers to clarify issues and to support or refute opinions. Mathematics education for the people must also be mathematics education with the people. It cannot be taught using what Paulo Freire calls "banking" methods: "expert" teachers depositing knowledge in the presumably blank minds of their students who memorize the required rules in order to get fu...| Science for the People Archives
1983. The year of breakfast telly, the afternoon kids’ tv slot being rebranded Children’s ITV, Thatcher’s Tories winning a second general election by a landslide, the Little Miss …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
When I started this blog years ago, I made a private agreement with myself: I would avoid writing topical political content. Substack, social media, and the blogosphere is saturated with political commentary, providing lots of heat but little light. I don’t like trafficking in outrage, which is the fast-track to success in political blogging. However, […]| Jim Nelson
LaBrant, L. (1983, January). The third decade: 1944-1953. Language Arts, 60(1), 72-73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41961438 Language Arts reprints Writing Is Learned by Writing (1953).| Lou LaBrant: An Annotated Bibliography