A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos. But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn. Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.
What I do is, each week, search for the tags 'teaching' and 'learning' and go through jotter's lists for diaries that teach. Then I'll post the list, with perhaps some brief comment, and open the floor to people who want to learn something specific.
You can help me by tagging diaries with 'teaching' or 'learning' when you see diaries that merit those tags, by reminding me of what I've missed, by recommending this diary, and by commenting.
OK.....here we go, alphabetically by diarist
Asinus Asinum Fricat tells us how to make Thai fish curry
boran2 has Volume 137 of Saturday painting palooza
chingchongchinaman writes about music in UDKCJ 13: Alfred Brendel edition
claude has Volume 2.32 of Saturday home repair blogging
davidwalters tells us Why we need a liquid fluoride thorium reactor
EugeneF gets a bit satirical in the Byzantine solution
fizziks tells us about apostrophe use for Kossacks
Frankenoid has Volume 4.5 of Saturday morning home and garden blogging
gmoke talks about community gardens and tells us Ladies and Gentlemen, start your gardens
juliewolf talks about the Pileated Woodpecker and also continues Sunday puzzle blogging
Land of Enchantment had the helm at Friday night at the movies for Blacks in film
lineatus takes us birdblogging with Kestrels: What's not to like?
Not the usual DKU fare, but certainly educational is mommyof3's 4 part report on a report about Saddam and terrrorism: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
ranger25 talks about getting widespread biodiesel production from algae
In this week's Frugal Fridays, sarahnity talks about the economic stimulus
Stranded Wind tells to build our own damn wind farm!
Translator continues his Fun with Nature series, with two diaries on energy: the first, and the second
What's for dinner? Well, last week, TX Scotia gave us A wee bit of stew
Going a little out of alphabetical order, we had several tributes to Arthur C. Clarke; not only are the diaries educational, but reading Clarke is very educational: dmsilev wrote RIP Arthur C. Clarke; David Brin (yes, the one you've heard of) wrote: A tribute to Arthur C. Clarke; Devilstower wrote Childhood's End, nwreader wrote thank you, Arthur C. Clarke