Summer Vacation

Show Notes

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With the exception of primary students, summer vacation is (still) upon us. On this episode I cover the history of the summer vacation, how different countries and states address instructional time, how daylight savings figures into it (spoiler: it doesn’t), and how to actually enjoy yourself on vacation (and, perhaps, why you might want to skip it, anyway).

• Music: Snerly’s “Canadian Summer Groove”
• A brief history of summer vacation
• The myth behind the origins of summer vacation
• Should my college student consider summer classes?
• The psychology of vacation
• Daylight Savings history
• School days: How the US compares with other countries
• Episode 5: Thermoception (Summer with The New Professor)

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