Starting with an infographic, above- this reminded me of our earlier discussion about shootings and whether the response focus should be on guns or on mental illness. (Graphic credit comes from here).
In entertainment news, I will confess that I skipped full paragraphs of this article on The Good Wife-- because, I'm batch watching it right now and only on season 4, and there were clearly going to be spoilers, I could tell. If you are already watching it, this article says good job you, and if you aren't -- well, watch it instead of reading this!
In sports-- The
Ryder Cup was two weekends ago. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the
Ryder Cup happens every two years, and it is awesome. Europe and the USA
face off
in a 3-day golf extravaganza. As usual, Europe smoked the USA. The US
has only won twice in the last 20 years. Past wins included an amazing
win at The Battle at Brookline (highlights here), culminating
in
this awesome photo of Justin Leonard and
this video of David Duval pumping his fists like it’s going out of style. But the biggest shocker in THIS year’s event was
Phil Mickelson’s awkward takedown of Captain Tom Watson during the post-match press conference. This sort of thing doesn’t usually happen in golf.
Also,
Derek Jeter played his last game as a Yankee. Dude was a class act, with the possible exception of this [hilarious and hopefully true]
unsubstantiated rumor about his love life. “Yeah Jeets!”
Not necessarily "news" but definitely a feature that reminds me how
much different social education for our young men and women of color
needs to be in order to prepare them for a society that hasn't totally
caught up with reality yet.
Did you see the NY Times "You're the Boss" piece, about women who are in management over men who don't respect women? Super interesting-- luckily, something that I've not yet faced as a manager (at least, not to my knowledge) and I feel unlikely to face in my field-- although, I've experienced in several times in talking to fathers.
Malala Yousafzi was just the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize. She is pretty amazing. Check out her acceptance speech or learn more about her here.
This may be my favorite story this week-- a library is being created full of one book a year for the next one hundred years. I can't believe how much this makes me want to read the first one by Margaret Atwood-- and I will never, ever be able to.
While the media's coverage of Ebola tends to be overly sensationalized, stories of the orphan problem that Ebola is creating are critical- this one makes me want to donate to Unicef, and this one happens to have been written by Christina's middle school boyfriend (making it news Christina already knows, but still worth a read).
What do you think about this idea of apprenticeships for first year teacherrs? Do you just read it and wonder how they afford it?
AND-- click here to see what country I now want Zoe to move to for college, and here to see why!
*Ryan wins the call for entries for most submissions, complete with full commentary!
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