1. NYT Sunday Routine feature I love this weekly feature in the New York Times. It spotlights a random New Yorker and lets them walk the reader through a typical Sunday. I like that it illuminates the lives of everyday people and I have also found that I enjoy seeing both what people’s the inside of peoples’ homes look like and how they spend their time. It is behind the NYT paywall.

  2. Short documentary The Evolving Mind of Neil Peart This video showed up in my feed because I love Rush. It was published in early September 2025 but is evergreen if you are a Rush fan or interested in their amazing drummer. This short documentary takes a look at some the philosophical ideas that are often associated with Peart, especially his early song writing.

  3. Ghost Rider book Thinking of The Professor, I immediately thought to recommend his wonderful book Ghost Rider. Peart’s wife and only daughter both died in the same year and in order to cope with the loss he jumped on his BMW motorcycle and drove all over North America, from Alaska to Mexico and all points in between, both east and west. It is part travelogue and part meditation on death. Five out of five stars!

  4. Book Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking This is a recommendation for those in education. For years, the dominant view in teaching is that we should be doing ‘higher level thinking.’ You know, ‘synthesis’ and ‘analysis’ and ‘evaluation.’ Well, yeah, those are practices we want our students to be familiar with and to be comfortable engaging in. However, sometimes students don’t have the foundational knowledge to engage in these ‘higher’ levels of thinking. You can’t connect the dots, if there aren’t any dots. This short book is a breath of fresh air in its advocation for a curriculum that is deeply rooted in factual knowledge.

  5. Peps McCrea’s teaching email newsletter Mr. McCrea is a British educator with a great, research-based newsletter for teachers. The emails are short and sweet with links to the research.