{"id":5675,"date":"2011-06-20T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/20\/links-for-2011-06-20\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T08:33:43","slug":"links-for-2011-06-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/20\/links-for-2011-06-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-06-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/content\/printVersion\/1740595\/\">Minneapolis<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[Don] Rawitsch, a lanky, bespectacled 21-year-old with hair well over his ears, was both a perfectionist and an idealist. He started dressing as historical figures in an attempt to win over his students, appearing in the classroom as explorer Meriwether Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>By now he&#8217;d made it through to the western expansion unit, and he had in mind his boldest idea yet.<\/p>\n<p>What he had so far was a board game tracing a path from Independence, Missouri, to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The students would pretend to be pioneer families. Each player would start with a certain amount of money and buy oxen, clothes, and food. Students would advance with the roll of a die, along the way encountering various misfortunes: broken limbs, thieves, disease. In roughly 12 turns, the kids would simulate the 2,000-mile journey that thousands of pioneers made to the West Coast in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>He called it &#8220;Oregon Trail.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nostalgia\">nostalgia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/games\">games<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,769089,00.html\">An Interview Without Words: Illustrator Shaun Tan Draws Conclusions &#8211; SPIEGEL ONLINE &#8211; News &#8211; International<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I hesitate to recommend this, as it&#8217;s spread over sixteen different pages, but Shaun Tan is awesome, and some of the drawings are really cute.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/interview\">interview<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis &#8220;[Don] Rawitsch, a lanky, bespectacled 21-year-old with hair well over his ears, was both a perfectionist and an idealist. 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By now he&#8217;d made it through to the western expansion unit, and he&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/20\/links-for-2011-06-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-06-20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}