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Pam from Michigan

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I've done HS Algebra, Geometry, & Chem tutoring. One thing that has always stuck out for me is that teachers must re-teach the Metric System every year. We should have switched to the MS 50 years ago.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11d

An increasing number of college students are arriving on campus with math skills that don't meet middle-school standards. Rose Horowitch reports on what’s behind the national decline in mathematical ability: theatln.tc/imf3VB6o

November 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Pam from Michigan

@pgtk.bsky.social

Search the Detroit Historical Society Collections

"Our collection contains over 250,000 artifacts representing over 300 years of our region’s unique history. About 47,000 of these are available in our Online Collection!"

www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM

Pam from Michigan

@pgtk.bsky.social

#GreatChicagoFire #genealogy #history #ancestry

chicagocovenants.bsky.social @chicagocovenants.bsky.social · Oct 16

The Great Chicago fire was 154 years ago this month🔥

"The 1871 fire destroyed almost all of the county's real estate records as City Hall burned [...]. There was uncertainty over how the rights to ownership would be upheld."

Read more from Maura Fennelly📖

www.chicagocovenants.com/research/mai...

November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM

Pam from Michigan

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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...

After 167 Years in New York, a Priceless Coin Collection Heads to Toledo

www.nytimes.com

November 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM

Pam from Michigan

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Interesting read. This explains why my Penn relatives moved to NW Ohio in the early 1800s. The powerful wanted a straight road from Chicago to NYC, without the circuitous trek around the swamp. Sounds about right. #genealogy #history #LakeErie

www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-...

The history of taming the Great Black Swamp | Great Lakes Now

Before farms and suburbs, the Great Black Swamp thrived. Restoring it could help curb Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms today.

www.greatlakesnow.org

November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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Library of Congress

@librarycongress.bsky.social

On this day in 1883, precisely at noon, North American railroads switched to a new standard time system for rail operations, which they called Standard Railway Time (SRT). Almost immediately, many American cities enacted ordinances, thus resulting in the creation of time “zones.” 🧵

November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Pam from Michigan

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I've listened to baseball, tennis, and hockey but listening to the Detroit Lions on the radio is strange. They've said Tush Push way too many times. Go Lions!

November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM

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Spiro’s Ghost

@antitoxicpeople.bsky.social

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM

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Detroit Free Press

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Detroit Lions and Eminem to partner on Thanksgiving halftime show through 2027

The Lions and Eminem agreed to a partnership for the team's Thanksgiving halftime shows at Ford Field through 2027, but is he performing?

bit.ly

November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Barack Obama

@barackobama.bsky.social

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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The New Yorker

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A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM

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Carl Quintanilla

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(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates ..

@bloomberg.com #Challenger
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Chicago Tribune

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The median age of first-time homebuyers in the U.S. has climbed to a record of 40 as soaring prices and mortgage rates over the last few years delay homeownership for millions of Americans.

US median first-time homebuyer age now at record-high of 40

The age at which people purchase their first home has climbed rapidly since 2021, when the median was 33, according to a National Association of Realtors survey.

trib.al

November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM

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Adam Serwer

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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Mr. P. Explores

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"There was a light, blue as a welder's torch; it used to shine over the fields, and all the wise men, strong men were drawn for miles; followed a star to Bethlehem Steel..."
- Grant Lee Buffalo - Bethlehem Steel (1997).

Bethlehem Steel HQ; Bethlehem, PA.

#abandoned #urbex #industrial #steel

November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM

Pam from Michigan

@pgtk.bsky.social

"The days were stacking up like dirty dishes, each packed with moments like this; the kind where you look around, wondering how you got here and why you haven't left yet."

Mick Herron #SlowHorses #SloughHouse #books #MickHerron

Cover art for audiobook Clown Town by Mick Herron

November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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Aaron Rupar

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Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"