Brain Research

Discover magazine article on learning and the brain. 

20 Things You Didn’t Know About …

Discovery magazine has an interesting feature providing little known details about people, places, and things.

Potter-mania in Anacortes

It’s a great time to be an English teacher! Here’s a news story from the Skagit Valley Herald about the positive influence of Harry Potter. Some of my students are profiled and quoted in the story. I’m also quoted — they misspelled my name though: it’s “Backman” not “Bachman.”

The Web as Rainforest

Great writers use analogies.  Here’s an article from Discovery that’s trying to help the reader understand the explosion of the Internet.