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Reading List

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB When I was a young person, I read books one at a time, from start to finish. I thought doing otherwise was not allowed. One of the benefits of age is that you get to approach your leisure reading in the full awareness that there are no laws […]Read more "Reading List"
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I Surrender/Akirameru

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press One of the Super Bowl commercials that caught my eye last week involved two rather wimpy-looking guys with cell phones facing two sumo wrestlers. The guys had to use their phones, which had internet connections, to figure out how to say “I surrender” in Japanese.One guy tried to look […]Read more "I Surrender/Akirameru"
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Growing Up in the YouTube Age

[Here’s Anna Cavallo, back with another interesting post on the ever-changing world of learning and content.] On Wednesday, one of the Publishers Weekly blogs, Shelftalker, led me to a YouTube video that I can’t get enough of: Scholar Ladies (Get an A on It). <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_O5xmTWZ5QaY/S3VXV8wSyJI/AAAAAAAAAIU/BPlgq5qifGI/video5bb0fa1c4535%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none;" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('38001ebb-da76-4f5a-bc32-89888305b110'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = […]Read more "Growing Up in the YouTube Age"
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Science and Stigma

There were a couple interesting stories in the news this week that caught my attention. First, as I understand it, Asperger’s syndrome is no longer something doctor’s will diagnose. It’s now part of the autism spectrum, at least as far as the DSM is concerned. You can hear more about it in this NPR piece.  […]Read more "Science and Stigma"
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Love Connection

I have one of the most beautiful aromatic bouquets of flowers in my office—an early Valentine’s Day present. As we cozy up to this holiday, I became intrigued by its origins. They start in the Roman period and became associated with martyred Christians. The “love connection” didn’t get going until many centuries later. Young men […]Read more "Love Connection"
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Econ 101 Goes Rap

<img style="border-style: none;" alt="" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_lqHsy2xLVmU/S2C07GlG7ZI/AAAAAAAAAH8/d8_AQcPpI1k/video47be8a21603a%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('e9426b72-98ca-46da-8e67-63f85cd3ab52'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = " http://hl= By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB Andrew, my office neighbor and editorial colleague, sends me links to wonderfully ingenious videos. This latest one is a rap video in which twentieth-century economic gurus John Maynard Keynes (played by Billy Scarfuri) and F. […]Read more "Econ 101 Goes Rap"