Waaahhhh! We’re out of the salad dressing I like. The spinach is just old enough that it isn’t very appetizing without dressing, and the dressing curiousmay9 prefers is heavier than I like. Must pick up some raspberry vinaigrette next time…
Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in Quarto The British Library owns 93 copies of Shakespeare’s 21 plays as printed in quarto before the theaters were closed in 1642. Wanna see ’em?
And More!
Remember, you saw it here first: The dark side of homeschooling!
List for Families With Non-Typical Children
I just learned of this list, and thought it might be of interest to some of you AllowYour *Non-Typical* Child to SHINE with Unschooling! I believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that unschooling does nothing less than save the…
Artificial Retinas
Is this not amazing? From Future Brief In the mid-1980s, neuroophthalmologist Joseph Rizzo III was researching retinal transplants to restore blind people’s vision. One day, removing a lab animal’s retina, a tissue-thin membrane that lines the back of the eyeball’s…
For Those With Kids (or Themselves!) Going Back to School
The Conscious Consumer and Back-to-School Shopping I realize the link is a bit late for many people, but it just came across one of my lists this morning. I have to say, one thing I do not miss is the…
DPaul007 is Contributing to My Delinquency
I took my computer into the kitchen, cleared the table of all distractions, and sat down with my textbooks. The first mistake was opening the blinds so I could see outside. The front yard and its squads of tree-rats is…
Interesting Article
We Waste Our Children’s Time Does High School Do More Harm Than Good? Racism, violence, sexual harassment, drugs—everything you encounter in the outside world is in high school. Despite changes in our society and our children, high school has existed…
Talky Talky
Yes, I am a postin’ ho today. I’ve let things I meant to share build up lately, but really, I’ll try to spread the rest of them out over the next few days. I want some new LJ icons. I’m…
35-Year-Old Cutting Edge Science Experiment
NASA Science News for July 20, 2004 A cutting-edge Apollo 11 science experiment is still running today, 35 years after astronauts left it behind in the Sea of Tranquility.