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.
(mommyof3 will be your substitute teacher today in plf515's absence)
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.
For a list of some series and diarists that might appeal, see my diary What are you teaching/learning? and the comments to it.
This week's teaching/learning diaries, alphabetically by diarist:
azindy encourages us to read Dan Quixote's diary about evolution (see below) and then continues the discussion in Evolution is, in fact, not a theory, but a law (or maybe a tautology)
cfk has Bookflurries, this one about Wisdom.
claude has version 2.2 of Saturday Morning Home Repair
ClimateLurker gives us information about nitrogen pollution in Drive-By Extinction, Health, and Global Warming: The Many Faces of Nitrogen
cskendrick gives us a lesson in Promoting Civic Culture in his latest Solving the World's Problems
Dan Quixote clarifies some assumptions about evolution in Evolution is, in fact, a theory, not a fact.
electric meatball sets up an interesting discussion about sentience and intelligence...
Frankenoid gives us volume 3.27 of Saturday Morning (Home And) Garden Blogging
gjohnsit gives us a history lesson in an adventure story called Into the Unknown Heart of America
kate petersen has version 2.2 of What's for Dinner?
lconly gives us a well researched look at the Peace Corp in Merits of the Peace Corps (?)
lightnessofbeing gives us In My Experience - Camping Edition II
lineatus takes us on a trip to Cuba with a group of ornithologists in Dawn Chorus - Birdblog: Cuba
LithiumCola gives us a philosophy lesson in The Future of the Nation-State
LunkHead bring us the latest Iron Chef Kos Wednesday ...secret ingredient--barley!
mkfox has the latest Forgotten Founding Fathers Tournament
Munguza examines the relevance of Sacco and Vanzetti in 2007 while unearthing some interesting family history in My family, Sacco & Vanzetti: 80 years ago today
pastordan announced a progressive group bible study in Open-Source Religion
pico has the latest Literature for Kossacks: a fascinating look at Leopold Senghor, poet and chief executive of Senegal...
sarahnity's latest Frugal Friday is Step 1 - Make a Budget
ShawnGBR alerts us to an interesting scientific discovery in There's a hole in our Universe (dear Eliza...)
tryptamine has a different sort of lesson for us in Kossacks Under 35: How to Flirt
x pens this week's History for Kossacks...Golden Age of Piracy
PLEASE... add diaries I may have missed down in the comments... the more learning opportunities, the better! Also let us know if there is a specific area you'd like to learn more about...