Final Friday Five

First link pack of 2015–enjoy!

1. A new method for teaching math to people who think they hate math
2. I took a snow day on Tuesday, but some weren’t so lucky.
3. How to sleep in productively
4. Faking it ’til they make it: Charles Simic and Mark Strand thought they were “short-order cooks who kept trying to pass themselves off as poets”
5. How to ruin a date with an academic