Teach Your Teachers Well

In a recurring feature that SHOULD recur more often, here are a few things I learned from my high school students recently:

1) chameleons do NOT change color to camouflage themselves, their color indicates their emotional state or can be used for social signaling-- so they are more like reptilian mood rings than reptilian spies;

2) Bill Belichick (72) is dating a slender 24-year-old named Jordon Hudson and he poses for some very silly pictures with her, including doing some athletic "beach yoga" and dressing as a fisherman and "catching" her while she is dressed as a mermaid;

3) "brain rot" phrases such as "the Balkan rage" and "the German stare" and "the rizz";

4) the slangy subjunctive hypothetical "Would you still love me if I were a worm?"

5) Several US coins have a front-facing presidential face instead of a profile, including the 1861-65 Lincoln dollar.