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As you traverse the crowded streaming landscape, you may just have forgotten about good old Netflix. If, like me, you've lapped up pretty much everything Hollywood has tossed to us streaming peasants, you might be more tempted to see what's up with the newly launched Max service, or what movies Universal has prematurely yanked from theaters and added to Peacock.But just because Netflix might have lost some of its appeal (and a ton of subscribers) amid the intense cascade of streaming offerings, that doesn't mean it should be overlooked. In fact, the OG streamer is gearing up to ensure you...

"He couldn't fit a whole woman in his head," a tear-stricken Siohban "Shiv" Roy (Sarah Snook) divulges to hundreds of her father's mourners. As the only daughter of the ruthless and scheming media CEO Logan Roy (Brian Cox), an octogenarian who met his end with cardiac arrest, Shiv had it tough under the thumb of her domineering father. Like her brothers, she has to straddle the line between "King Lear"-levels of groveling and disobedience to acquire control of their father's company, Waystar Royco.After four seasons, the penultimate funeral episode "Church and State" shoves the "Succession" opening into a gutwrenching full...

  TW: This article contains frank and detailed discussion of violent death. It’s weird how the dead have taught me more than the living ever could. As a police officer, I saw more dead people than I can count, and everyone left a mark. It’s how I got PTSD. But behind the grotesque horror and the tragic loss lay a person with a story and a message. Today I give voice to them. . . . 1. Life is precious—a lesson from an overdose. Before I became a police officer, I used to work in a liquor store. This particular...

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In workshops I offer on the science of learning, I often ask participants to take a short online quiz based on one developed by Ulrich Boser. The quiz focuses on common myths and misconceptions around learning. One of the questions asks “To which of the following should you NOT tailor your learning? Question from quiz by Ulrich Boser The correct answer here is the first choice. We should NOT be tailoring our teaching and learning around students’ so-called learning styles. [this is where I pause, duck under the table, or behind my Zoom screen and wait for the barrage of tomatoes…] Let’s look at the...