[Link] The Surprisingly Scientific Roots of Monkey Bars

Read: 4/3/2023 www.smithsonianmag.com

A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2017.

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[Link] I Can't Stop Playing This Wikipedia History Game

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

WikiTrivia is a deceptively simple game that has consumed my entire morning. Wordle is fun, but it’s over quickly. WikiTrivia you can play over and over again. Players sort random events in history along a timeline.

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[Link] NSW public school teachers to strike for first time in a decade as sector faces ‘perfect storm’

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

New South Wales public teachers will strike for the first time in more than a decade in response to a “statewide staffing crisis” caused by stagnating wages and an escalating workload.

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[Link] For These Buddhist Monks, Sex Ed Starts With Safe Masturbation

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Sunshine pours in through the monastery classroom window as monks in crimson robes lock their gaze in rapt attention at the chalkboard. Their instructor smiles warmly and asks them what they know about the use of a condom.  

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[Link] Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher

Read: 15/8/2021 theconversation.com

“Your teacher was wrong!” It’s a phrase many a high school or university student has heard. As practising and former science teachers, we have been challenged with this accusation before.

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