Off The Beaten Track

THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For our other homeschooling articles, please search Ismaili Digest for "homeschool".] ARTICLE: Online schooling isn't homeschooling. It's worth pointing out that what parents and teachers are trying to do now hardly reflects what most homeschoolers do on a regular basis. I know very few homeschool families who put their children in front of computers, walk away, and call it homeschool. Younger children simply don't learn best when plopped in front of a computer all day. We've known this for a while. Younger children learn best through play, and essentially require movement to behave well and continue learning throughout the day. E-learning can work when paired with something tangible, like an instrument, or with movement, like a dance class. It doesn't work as well with basics, such as math, reading, and writing. When I homeschooled my children full time, we ...

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AEON.CO -- Now a lecturer at Yale University, I was homeschooled for eight years, from age 11 to college. Learning at home is different from learning at school. We need to reorient how we generally think about learning. Historically, education has been the parent's responsibility and, if nothing else, a few weeks or months of homeschooling is an opportunity to encourage our children to do something novel, different, unexpected. As a society, we have become exceptionally bad at encouraging our children to be idiosyncratic and independent. Forced to homeschool, for a few weeks or months, is a daunting prospect - but also a tremendous opportunity to cultivate children's independence and original thinking. There are four essential points that everyone now experimenting with homeschooling should bear in mind. First ...

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FS.BLOG -- Iatrogenics is when a treatment causes more harm than benefit. Treatment not by doctors, but anyone intervening to solve a problem: a thought leader, a CEO or a government. Nassim Taleb calls these people interventionistas. Today iatrogenics refers to any effect, resulting from an intervention, in excess of gain. Why would otherwise well intentioned people do something even when the evidence indicates doing something is actually causing more harm? I can think of a few reasons why: 1) an inability to think through problems, 2) separation from consequences, 3) a bias for action, and 4) no skin in the game. Let's flesh these out a little. The first flaw ...

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MEDIUM.COM -- NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1986: "For me the most important word is accountability. We must be accountable at all times to the organisations we serve and to the people we serve."] ARTICLE: Interventionistas not only lack practical sense, they make reasoning mistakes. Their thinking suffers three flaws: 1) thinking in statics, not dynamics -- even though everyone knows life has second, third, nth steps, 2) thinking in low, not high dimensions -- never understanding complex systems don't have obvious, one dimensional cause and effect relationships, 3) thinking in actions, never interactions -- never anticipating reactions to actions. So we end up with an intelligentsia of delusional people, who never pay for the consequences of their actions, repeating modernist slogans stripped of all depth. In general, when you hear someone using abstract modernistic notions, you can assume they have some education and too little accountability. We argue those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions. This idea is weaved into history ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "Governments alone cannot meet the educational challenges of the 21st century. Nor can private institutions which are constrained by the necessity to earn a profit. The answer lies in the expanding role of civil society."] ARTICLE: The federal government's COVID-19 plan assumes the pandemic "will last 18 months or longer and could include multiple waves of illness." During this period, schools may close then reopen repeatedly requiring parents to be more involved in their children's education. With such uncertainty, conventional schools need to consider "hybrid homeschools" which are designed for just such an environment. In these students toggle between learning in school, 2-3 per week, and at home the other days. At their best, hybrid homeschools are an excellent example of civil society working with families to educate their children. What might interested parents consider about them as we close out this school year and head into the uncertainty of the next one? First, they teach students flexibility. Students ...

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STATNEWS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, epidemiology and population health, and statistics at Stanford University. Respected globally, he has spent his career challenging and exposing bad science.] ARTICLE: Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco. The data collected so far are utterly unreliable due to limited testing to date. The vast majority of infections are probably being missed and we don't know whether by a factor of 3 or 300. The Diamond Princess cruise ship is the only time an entire population was tested. The fatality rate there was 1.0%, but this was largely an elderly population. Even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses have fatality rates as high as 8% amongst elderly people in nursing homes. Projecting the Princess mortality rate onto the the U.S. population, [and adjusting for various sources of uncertainty], reasonable fatality estimates vary from 0.05% to 1%. A fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. However, the most valuable piece of information ...

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SPECTATOR.CO.UK -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: John Lee is a recently retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant pathologist.] ARTICLE: There's another serious problem with COVID-19 UK mortality data: the way deaths are recorded. We don't really test for flu, or seasonal infections. This means respiratory infection deaths are under recorded. However, the list of notifiable diseases on death has now been amended to include COVID-19. But not flu. That means every positive test for COVID-19 must be notified, but not flu or most other infections. If we tracked flu or other seasonal viruses in the same way as COVID-19, they would show similar exponential increases in cases and deaths. For example, the US CDC publishes weekly estimates of flu cases. Since September, flu has infected 38 million Americans, hospitalised 390,000 and killed 23,000. This does not cause public alarm because flu is familiar. Much of the COVID-19 response seems due to ...

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VIDDLER.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Very highly recommended documentary. As you watch reflect on Hazar Imam's 2007 remark at the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa: "A wise observer once said, it's not so much what we don't know that hurts us, but also all those things that we are sure we know -- but which are just not so."] ARTICLE: Darwin's Dilemma examines what many consider to be the most powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution - the Cambrian fossil record. Charles Darwin realized that the fossil evidence did not support his theory of gradual, step-by-step evolutionary development. He hoped that future generations of scientists would make the discoveries necessary to validate his ideas. Today, after more than 150 years of exploration fossil evidence of slow, incremental biological change has yet to be excavated. Instead, we find a picture of the rapid appearance of fully developed, complex organisms during the outset of the Cambrian geological era. Organisms that embody the major animal body plans that exist today. This remarkable explosion of life is truly Darwin's Dilemma and is best explained by intelligence. ...

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FIRSTTHINGS.COM -- The following is the most insightful statement of what is at issue in the evolution controversy that I have ever read from a senior figure in the scientific establishment. For scientific materialists, materialism comes first and the science comes thereafter: "We [i.e. the 'enlightned' elite] take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, ... in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, *because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.* ... We are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." The prior commitment explains why evolutionary scientists ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- TEDX: SALMAAN KESHAVJEE (DIRECTOR, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY)-- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Dr. Keshavjee's TEDx talk was just published, 4 days ago.] ARTICLE: In this enthalling talk, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee takes us through an understanding of how we can stop the spread of infectious disease, like COVID-19, having developed a global platform for eradicating Tuberculosis. By looking at community based health care delivery platforms in vulnerable communities, he helps us to explore how this model is replicable across different geographies and can be used in the future to tackle other health problems. Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM,is the Director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Global Health Delivery since 2014. He is currently leading an initiative at Harvard Medical School on how to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis. In 2005, he became a member of the World Health Organization/Stop TB Partnership's Green Light Committee for MDR-TB Treatment. From 2007 to 2010, he was the committee's chair. He has ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For our many past articles on this subject, please search Ismaili Digest for "homeschooling".] ARTICLE: Parents across the country took a deep dive over the last two weeks as home educators. How ya'll doing? Many others have gone before you and, through trial and error, have grown and picked up many tips to pass along. After 25 years of teaching my four kids, all with very unique needs and learning styles, I'll give you my top 10 suggestions to help you get through this. Maybe you'll even discover some lifelong bonuses for your family, like I did. #2: Don't feel you have to mimic school hours; chances are you will finish in way less time. #9: Study something new to you. The first two weeks are always the hardest. Every year, my kids ...

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MINDMATTERS.AI -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2002: The only thing that makes us different from animals and plants [is] our human intellect.] ARTICLE: Have you noticed the remarkable cluelessness in atheist arguments about science and metaphysics? It's really on display in atheist and professor of philosophy Justin E. H. Smith's essay where he argues that reason is inferior to the non-rational behavior of animals. Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Why would he choose an inferior method -- reasoned argument -- when he could simply bash his listener over the head? Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics. It would be funny if it were not so dangerous to our culture and to our souls. Reason is an immaterial power of the soul and is precisely what makes man qualitatively different from every other living thing. Reason has nothing to do with ...

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THEHOMESCHOOLMOM.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For our many past articles on this subject, please search Ismaili Digest for "homeschooling".] ARTICLE: Social distancing requirements, closed school systems, and working from home have combined to bring families suddenly together in a way they may never have experienced. We are seeing lots of parents asking about how to homeschool or help their children learn at home. These resources can help with scheduling, keeping kids engaged, and staying sane during social distancing. Be sure to check out our complete household planner and unit study downloads! Have grace with yourself and your kids--this is ...

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THEHOMESCHOOLMOM.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For our many past articles on this subject, please search Ismaili Digest for "homeschooling".] ARTICLE: Although this unusual situation is being called homeschooling, it's really not. It can be scary to homeschool even after much research and preparation but suddenly finding yourself in charge of your children's learning, without choosing to be, may seem overwhelming or even terrifying. If your child is staying connected with the public school during their time at home, just follow the school's academic plan. But when it comes to organizing your days, homeschool schedules come in all shapes and sizes and it can be confusing to decide how to schedule your child's day when you have never homeschooled. The truth is that there is no typical homeschool day; homeschool schedules are as varied as homeschool families. Sometimes the order of the homeschooling schedule is less important than ...

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INTROVERTDEAR.COM -- We're living in uncertain and even scary times right now. Many of us are stuck in our own homes, unable to go out and do the things we're so used to doing. A coworker was telling me how her extroverted son is going crazy right now because he can't go out and do anything. Since we introverts are wired to handle being by ourselves, we're much better able to handle forced social isolation. The world is turning to us to learn how to best handle this crisis and we have a unique opportunity to show the world not only how to be an introvert, but that introversion is a great thing -- not just during times of crisis, but all the time. Here are five things I believe we as introverts should be showing everyone: 1. Spending time alone helps ...

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EVIEMAGAZINE.COM -- Most of us assumed education could only be done one way: in school. However, besides "normal" schools, some parents educate their children in their homes. And now that coronavirus has put normal day to day activities, like going to school, on hold parents of school kids are getting a taste of what homeschooling is really like. As homeschooling becomes the norm for the next few weeks, it's becoming clear just how much homeschooling moms deal with at home with the kids every single day. Mothers who choose to homeschool are warriors in their own right, giving up much of their own personal freedom for the betterment of the next generation. Watching parents gain a deeper respect for these homeschooling moms is heartening. Homeschooling has been shown to ...

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WATTSUPWITHTHAT.COM -- The most surprising finding of the Italian Government report was that of the 355 people who died (at the time of the report), only 3 didn't have any of the diseases listed above [hypertension, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, etc.]). Three! Consider the people who died: - More were over 90 than under 60. - The average age was 79 years. - All but three had at least one other disease, so basically all were already sick. - 75% had two other diseases, and half of them had 3 or more other diseases. Half! That's not a sample of the people in the street or an Italian family. That's a sample of a totally different population. I was forced to a curious conclusion, both discouraging and encouraging. It is that most of these COVID-19 cases were probably not community-acquired. Instead, I would hazard a guess that most of them go by the curious name of "nosocomial" infections which originate in a hospital. Here's what I suspect. I think ...

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PSYCHOLOGYTODAY.COM -- There are intriguing positives to boredom: "By encouraging contemplation and daydreaming, it can spur creativity," writes Stewart in "The Atlantic". In a couple of different studies people who were bored before being given a creative task did better on the task. Is boredom good for kids? It depends on what happens when they are bored. Do they plug in? Then no. Or does it spur them to creative play? Then yes. Do they get frustrated and have to figure it out? Then also, yes. Your kids can definitely handle boredom. Just wait and see what they do. If you doubt your child's creativity, just hang out in the doctor's office. Ignored, even briefly, kids find lots of creative ways to deal with boredom. They ...

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QUILLETTE.COM -- "In Praise of Boredom" was Joseph Brodsky's 1989 Dartmouth College commencement address. Here is his opening sentence: "A substantial part of what lies ahead of you is going to be claimed by boredom." As a child I was well acquainted with boredom. It was there when I woke up in the morning and it stretched out over the landscape. Boy, did I feel small. But I learned humility and curiosity. I recently heard a friend planning a few days her daughter had off school. Barricade after barricade was erected against boredom. A tight schedule of activities, each more stimulating than the last. I have friends who, when they drive their small daughters half an hour across town, plug them both in to separate iPads. I quite often travel long distances on trains. I don't think ...

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NYPOST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For our many past articles on this subject, please search Ismaili Digest for "homeschool".] ARTICLE: "To be honest, I didn't really have a clue what I was doing, but we muddled through," says Falik, 41. "It wound up being a fun, successful morning." Muddling through -- at least during the early days of home education -- is exactly what expert Courtney Ostaff, recommends to parents considering that option. What about simulating that classroom experience? Do kids really need a separate learning space? Ostoff says parents shouldn't worry about it. "All you really need is a flat surface like a kitchen or dining table," she says. Her general rule of thumb regarding time spent homeschooling is 15 minutes for each year of a child's life. Therefore a 6-year-old would receive tuition for 90 minutes, while an 8-year-old would get two hours. For established homeschoolers ...

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DISCOVERY.ORG -- VIA THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason: The major animal groups appear abruptly in the rocks over a relatively short time, rather than evolving gradually from a common ancestor as Darwin's theory predicts. When this conclusion upsets American scientists, he wryly comments: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin." The reason evolution is so controversial is that it is the main scientific prop for scientific naturalism. All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy. Richard Dawkins exults that Darwin "made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist" ... Here's just one example of how real science is replaced by flim-flam. The standard textbook example of natural selection involves a species of finches in the Galapagos ...

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DISCOVERY.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1956: "The young Waezin should each try and find new arguments based on the discoveries in all branches of science for keeping the human soul like [sic] the ocean with the Divine wisdom and power."] ARTICLE: Although naturalistic dogma has dominated public education for a half century, its mandarins have failed to convince. I receive regular inquiries even from some of the world's most thoroughly secularized nations that indicate skepticism toward evolutionary naturalism. Clearly, reports of the death of God have been greatly exaggerated. That Darwinist authorities find public scrutiny of their theory so threatening indicates to me that there is a hidden insecurity in their intellectual position which will eventually become so visible it can no longer be concealed. One early sign of that came in December 2004 when the famed atheist philosopher Anthony Flew announced that he had converted to philosophical theism [and then published "There is a God: How the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind"]. Scientific discoveries and related reasoning had convinced him that there is an intelligent designer of the natural universe. A genuinely confident scientific culture ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- As schools across America close to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, those of us in the homeschool community are a little giddy over our sudden mainstream status. Let me give you a few simple ideas, informed by decades of homeschool experience, that will help you and your kids make the most of your weeks at home together. 1. Don't Think You Have to Fill Your Day with Academics. 2. Make the World Your Classroom. 3. Read, Read, Read. Aloud. 4. Use This Time to Teach Life Skills. 5. Channel Your Inner '80s Parent One of the first things I tell new homeschoolers often surprises them: for young children, homeschooling doesn't take much time. When my kids were in kindergarten through ...

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EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- The very idea that cells proofread their genetic information makes intelligent design intuitively obvious. One doesn't proofread gibberish. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 went to three scientists who discovered DNA repair mechanisms. Cells inspect and correct their informational macromolecules at every stage: at transcription, at translation, and during post-translational modification. Roving molecular machines inspect other machines at work in the cell. When a cell divides, molecular machines check every letter as DNA strands are duplicated. Cells are in the "quality control" business. Does the cell check for typos? Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden found not just one, but two independent proofreading steps in the ribosome beyond the one that was already known. They occur ...

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EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- Repair systems and error-correction strategies exhibit backward monitoring: the ability to detect that a failure has occurred and take appropriate action. This assumes the ability to see what *should* have happened. There are numerous repair mechanisms in the cell. One was recently described in news from Lomonosov Moscow State University which explained that "during the transcription of information (its rewriting into RNA) the RNA polymerase enzyme 'rides' on the DNA chain, and stops when it finds the break. Like a proof-reader of a text, RNA polymerase after it is stalled, triggers a cascade of reactions, resulting in the repair enzymes fixing the damaged area." Damage response is a backward strategy for robustness, as we know by analogy from error-correcting algorithms in software. Entities don't have to ...

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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- So far, six states and several city school districts have closed K-12 public schools for at least next week, affecting approximately 5 million children. So, what do the parents of these kids need to know to make the best out of a bad situation? 1. The most important factor is motivation. You can lead a child to learning, but you can't make him learn. A resistant, lazy, or distracted child in the best classroom will not learn anything. Teaching your child is ultimately about shepherding their soul. A true education equals moral formation. If your child is not generally obedient, or doesn't have a good work ethic or disposition, the best use of your time will be character training. 2. The second factor is content. If your child is ...

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[H/T SIMERG] -- GOV.SG -- GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE -- A collection of useful posters and videos on COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) ...

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FACEBOOK.COM -- CRISTINA HIGGINS -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: This post has been confirmed by NBC news as legitimate and by Cristina Higgins in Bergamo.] ARTICLE: I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. Each of you, today -- not the government, not the school district, not the mayor -- each individual citizen, has the chance, today to take actions that will deter Italy from becoming your own country's reality. *The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today.* Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities. For those who say that this is just something that happens to old people, starting yesterday the hospitals here are reporting that younger and younger patients - 40, 45, 18, are coming in for treatment. There are 2 reasons why Coronavirus has brought Italy to it's knees. First ...

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APKMETRO.COM -- VIA THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- More and more we see a harmful and antiscientific pattern towards the outright denial of organic intercourse. In people, as in most animals or crops, a person's reproductive anatomy corresponds to one of two distinct varieties that manufacture small or massive intercourse cells: eggs and sperm. In people, reproductive anatomy is unambiguously male or female at delivery greater than 99.98% of the time. The evolutionary function of those two anatomies is to assist in replication through the fusion of sperm and ova. No third sort of intercourse cell exists in people, and subsequently there isn't any intercourse "spectrum" or extra sexes past female and male. Organic intercourse is binary. There's a distinction, nevertheless, between the statements that ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- MEDIUM.COM -- NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1986: "For me the most important word is accountability. We must be accountable at all times to the organisations we serve and to the people we serve."] ARTICLE: Skin in the Game is about balancing incentives and disincentives: people should be penalized if something for which they are responsible goes wrong and hurts others. Skin the game provides a clear answer to the current riot against self-congratulatory "experts": the public has viscerally detected that some "educated experts" have no skin in the game and will never learn from their mistakes. Until very recent times, owning one's risk was an unescapable moral code for past four millennia. War mongers were required to be warriors. Fewer than a third of Roman emperors died in their bed (assuming those weren't poisoned). Status came with increased exposure to risk. Courage is the only virtue that can't be faked (or gamed like metrics). This primacy ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- FS.BLOG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2008: "An important thing is looking forward across time ... The reactive mode is a tremendous liability. Being in an anticipatory mode changes the whole nature of things ..."] ARTICLE: First-level thinking is simplistic and superficial, and just about everyone can do it. All the first-level thinker needs is an opinion about the future. First-order thinking is fast and easy. It happens when we look for something that only solves the immediate problem without considering the consequences. Second-order thinking is more deliberate. It is thinking in terms of interactions and time. The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order. Second order thinkers ask themselves the question "And then what?" This means thinking about the consequences. The road to out-thinking people can't come from first-order thinking. It must come from second-order thinking. Extraordinary performance comes from seeing things that other people can't see. Often when we solve ...

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EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah,1956: "The young Waezin should each try and find new arguments based on the discoveries in all branches of science ..."] ARTICLE: Parents and educators might feel the safest way to take shelter from claims by scientists and other academics that undermine faith is to just dismiss or hide from those claims. However, that just sets a trap for young people. What happens when they become immersed in university or secular cultures, and realize how unprepared to handle arguments against their family's religious tradition they are? The yearly Westminster Conference on Science and Faith exposes parents, teachers, and students to the responsible science that increasingly supports faith. The 2020 conference will be held Friday and Saturday, April 3-4, in the Philadelphia area. The deadline for the early-bird discount ends today, March 1st! Register today to save! Adult: $70 Student (with valid ID): $35 Youth (under 18): $20 ...

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MACLEANS.CA -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For those unaware, Macleans is Canada's "Time Magazine."] ARTICLE: Not long ago, Dr. Leonard Sax was at a restaurant and overheard a father say to his daughter, "Honey, could you please do me a favour? Could you please just try one bite of your green peas?" To many this sounds like sophisticated parenting -- gentle coaxing formed as a question to get the child's co-operation without threatening her autonomy. To Sax the situation epitomized something much worse: the recent collapse of parenting. The scene is a prime example of parents relinquishing authority, losing confidence in themselves and defering to kids. A rule such as "No dessert until you eat your broccoli" has morphed into "How about three bites of broccoli, and then you can have dessert?" The command has become a question capped with a bribe. "When parents ...

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