JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

In his post titled “Women and Leadership”, Michael Williams linked to Eve Tushnet : WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP: Clio writes: You suggest that women have a difficult time with leadership because they are too focussed on “relationships” to keep track of institutional goals, and cannot accept the idea of the “mask of command”. I suspect that […]

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A couple weeks ago I found myself driving through Bellevue, taking the kids to a park. On the way we drove past where I had my first job, working at an independent burger joint, on an intersection of NE 8th Street, not too far from downtown. I was 15 at the time and my work […]

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Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution today linked to a New York Times article Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of Literate Children that tried to explain the success of schools in Finland: Finland topped a respected international survey last year, coming in first in literacy and placing in the top five in math and science What […]

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On Friday, Jay McCarthy linked to this piece but I didn’t look at it closely due to busyness…then Ted came home and while reading through his blogroll sent the link to me: Love Peeks Through Elder Japan’s Curtain of Reserve, which described the romance between Mr. and Mrs. Kudo. The real-life exchange between Chiyoko and […]

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I enjoyed reading this Seattle Times article on the University of Washington Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab in today’s paper: virtual reality meets medicine. I think this appeals to the geek in me and also the woman who didn’t become a doctor but still likes to read about it… Plenty of interfacing is going on […]

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