We got Katie’s report card in, and she did in fact get all As! She’s well into the next semester now. Because everybody else was registered for this year last spring, the advanced physics course was full and she’s in…
The Geek Who Understands You
We got Katie’s report card in, and she did in fact get all As! She’s well into the next semester now. Because everybody else was registered for this year last spring, the advanced physics course was full and she’s in…
Katarina went out with me and we drove around, taking pictures of things. OK, that sounds vague, but really, Katarina enjoys taking pictures of things, and these things are highly random yet they all have certain qualities: They’re frequently old,…
Linguists boycott Kansas hearings on intelligent design of English The state board of education in Kansas plans to hold hearings in May on the “intelligent design” theory of the origin of English, which claims that the language was constructed in…
Scientists uncover possible new species of human Dwarf skeleton is 18,000 years old Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Posted: 7:09 PM EDT (2309 GMT) (AP) — In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered…
I still run into people who believe that Bush won the 2000 election fair and square. Katie and I did some math today, using figures from that election. These do NOT consider the number of people who were intimidated by…
The Department of Education destroyed 300,000 parent guides on “How to Help Your Child Learn History” because Mrs. Cheney didn’t like a reference to one of her pet peeves. Big Sister, anyone? Published on Friday, October 8, 2004 by the…
Edit: I meant to post this to nonfluffypagans but I might as well leave it here now. The following post was on the Net-Gold mailing list today—a great source for finding reference materials for any subject. In any case, I…
The White Mouse: World War II’s most decorated woman
The Darkest Days “In the spring of 1944, a group of 38 Ukrainian Jews emerged weak and jaundiced from a cave they’d used for nearly a year to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Nearly fifty years later, one caver…
Space Dust to Unlock Mexican Pyramid Secrets Showers of space dust are helping unlock the secrets of a 2,000-year-old Mexican pyramid where the rulers of a mysterious civilization may lie buried.
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