Kate Seat
@magistrasedes.bsky.social
Latin Instructor | Provider of Comprehensible Input | NPR Sustaining Member | 👩🏼🦼
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Puzzle #883
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It’s a fun one for Latinists today!
Puzzle #883
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It’s a fun one for Latinists today!
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Connections
Puzzle #883
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
It’s a fun one for Latinists today!
Puzzle #883
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
It’s a fun one for Latinists today!
I am the 12%. 7:20 sunrises this week have been killing me. 4am sunrises in June would also be inconvenient.
Love it or hate it, many will turn their clocks back on Sunday. The debate — whether or not to make daylight saving time permanent — continues. n.pr/4okDSzv
Daylight saving time ends Sunday. Here's what to know
Love it or hate it, many will turn their clocks back on Sunday. The debate — whether or not to make daylight saving time permanent — continues.
n.pr
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I am the 12%. 7:20 sunrises this week have been killing me. 4am sunrises in June would also be inconvenient.
My third declension poster with the forms of REX fell while I was narrating the story of Julius Caesar’s assassination. Sic semper tyrannis!
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My third declension poster with the forms of REX fell while I was narrating the story of Julius Caesar’s assassination. Sic semper tyrannis!
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I started reading The Story of Spanish by Nadeau and Barlow, but a chapter or two in, I am already spotting errors in the Latin, which makes me doubt the rest. Anybody read it or know of a better overview of the history of Spanish?
October 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I started reading The Story of Spanish by Nadeau and Barlow, but a chapter or two in, I am already spotting errors in the Latin, which makes me doubt the rest. Anybody read it or know of a better overview of the history of Spanish?
I started reading The Story of Spanish by Nadeau and Barlow, but a chapter or two in, I am already spotting errors in the Latin, which makes me doubt the rest. Anybody read it or know of a better overview of the history of Spanish?
October 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I started reading The Story of Spanish by Nadeau and Barlow, but a chapter or two in, I am already spotting errors in the Latin, which makes me doubt the rest. Anybody read it or know of a better overview of the history of Spanish?
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I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person
August 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person
I think I’m going to have to use the phrase PUTREDO CEREBRI with my students
August 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I think I’m going to have to use the phrase PUTREDO CEREBRI with my students
Apollo 13 captivated me more than any other movie when I was a kid. Watched it more times than I can count. Ad astra per aspera, Jim Lovell! 💫
JUST IN: Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and electrical supply. The inspiring story of their survival was made into a hit movie.
Famed NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell has died at age 97
Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and electrical supply. The inspiring story of their survival was made into a hit movie.
n.pr
August 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Apollo 13 captivated me more than any other movie when I was a kid. Watched it more times than I can count. Ad astra per aspera, Jim Lovell! 💫
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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.
IG nytimes
IG nytimes
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.
IG nytimes
IG nytimes
Gonna tell my students this was Dido
June 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Gonna tell my students this was Dido
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
It’s summer!!! Some ‘24-‘25 school year highlights:
• My current students recruited 80% of rising freshmen to take Latin
• All juniors who stayed at our school continued to Latin III
• Lecture from local artist birdcap about myth & art
• Pompeii exhibition field trip
• 7 NLE golds, >60% won awards
• My current students recruited 80% of rising freshmen to take Latin
• All juniors who stayed at our school continued to Latin III
• Lecture from local artist birdcap about myth & art
• Pompeii exhibition field trip
• 7 NLE golds, >60% won awards
May 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s summer!!! Some ‘24-‘25 school year highlights:
• My current students recruited 80% of rising freshmen to take Latin
• All juniors who stayed at our school continued to Latin III
• Lecture from local artist birdcap about myth & art
• Pompeii exhibition field trip
• 7 NLE golds, >60% won awards
• My current students recruited 80% of rising freshmen to take Latin
• All juniors who stayed at our school continued to Latin III
• Lecture from local artist birdcap about myth & art
• Pompeii exhibition field trip
• 7 NLE golds, >60% won awards
The Latin movie projects are so good this year! One group recreated an animated short I used for a movie talk and genuinely I have not laughed that hard in at least a month.
May 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The Latin movie projects are so good this year! One group recreated an animated short I used for a movie talk and genuinely I have not laughed that hard in at least a month.
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After her dreams of becoming a doctor were denied, one California woman is working to make the profession more accessible to those with disabilities.
One woman's fight to remove barriers for aspiring doctors with disabilities
After her dreams of becoming a doctor were denied, one California woman is working to make the profession more accessible to those with disabilities.
www.npr.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
After her dreams of becoming a doctor were denied, one California woman is working to make the profession more accessible to those with disabilities.
Original Sin is such an overblown title for a book about a one-term presidency. Can we save that term for American narratives about, like, slavery and wiping out Native populations?
May 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Original Sin is such an overblown title for a book about a one-term presidency. Can we save that term for American narratives about, like, slavery and wiping out Native populations?
Pretty sure it was Pliny the Younger and not Pl-eye-ny the Elder who wrote about them, but I did enjoy a Roman sacred geese shoutout in this @npr.org story about porch geese.
“Porch geese are making a comeback” one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
“Porch geese are making a comeback” one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
🔊 Listen Now: Porch geese are making a comeback
Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 3:57
one.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pretty sure it was Pliny the Younger and not Pl-eye-ny the Elder who wrote about them, but I did enjoy a Roman sacred geese shoutout in this @npr.org story about porch geese.
“Porch geese are making a comeback” one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
“Porch geese are making a comeback” one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
Wrote a parva fabula about a senior feeling overwhelmed and classmates cheering her up for some more repetitions of vocab from Aeneid I.494-504, where Dido enters Juno’s temple looking like Diana. DM me your email if you want me to send you the Google doc.
April 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Wrote a parva fabula about a senior feeling overwhelmed and classmates cheering her up for some more repetitions of vocab from Aeneid I.494-504, where Dido enters Juno’s temple looking like Diana. DM me your email if you want me to send you the Google doc.
I Rick-rolled my students with a post on Google Classroom today. An April Fools classic.
April 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I Rick-rolled my students with a post on Google Classroom today. An April Fools classic.
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conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind
Wildly, Oklahoma state education officials are adding language in the school curriculum that says the 2020 election had "discrepancies," enshrining Trump's false claims the election was stolen from him.
oklahomavoice.com/2025/03/13/p...
oklahomavoice.com/2025/03/13/p...
Proposed Oklahoma social studies standards suggest ‘discrepancies’ in 2020 election • Oklahoma Voice
State education officials added new language to new social studies standards that suggest there were "discrepancies" in the 2020 election.
oklahomavoice.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind
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Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment.
The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay
The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay
March 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Almost 4,000 years ago during an era we call the Old Babylonian period, a student formed a round tablet out of clay and drew a circle on it for a math assignment.
The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay
The area of the circle (45) was then calculated using an approximation of pi (≈ 3). #HappyPiDay
8:00am and the sun’s not even fully up. For what?
The time change comes too soon. Right now we are at 6:20 sunrise, 6:00 sunset. As God intended. But with DST, for two weeks we’ll have to suffer sunrises after 7:00, waking up in the dark for no good reason. You permanent DST people are unhinged!
March 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
8:00am and the sun’s not even fully up. For what?
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Here's the full #AncientBlackness thread in blog format opietasanimi.com/2025/03/08/a...
March 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Here's the full #AncientBlackness thread in blog format opietasanimi.com/2025/03/08/a...
The time change comes too soon. Right now we are at 6:20 sunrise, 6:00 sunset. As God intended. But with DST, for two weeks we’ll have to suffer sunrises after 7:00, waking up in the dark for no good reason. You permanent DST people are unhinged!
March 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The time change comes too soon. Right now we are at 6:20 sunrise, 6:00 sunset. As God intended. But with DST, for two weeks we’ll have to suffer sunrises after 7:00, waking up in the dark for no good reason. You permanent DST people are unhinged!
My NJCL President 💜💛
If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.
March 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My NJCL President 💜💛
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Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men
February 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men