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Grammar Girl : How Do You Tell If Something Is True? :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™

Thanks for the link, Karissa.

The article begins, “It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.”

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Crazy, Kinetic, Acoustic Visit to the Carnegie Science Center

She knows Vulcans have their hearts where their livers are supposed to be.

A few days ago, I blogged about visiting SportsWorks at the Carnegie Science Center. A couple weeks ago, I brought my son and his friend to see an extended tour of the submarine USS Requin.

This post is mostly about visiting the Exploration Station, part of the fourth floor installation that features more of the [...]

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SportsWorks Adventure at the Carnegie Science Center

Woah!

I confess that I have never been all that physical. I do try to take the stairs instead of the elevator at work. I let my daughter talk me into auditioning for a community theater musical (and while my dancing was definitely in the bottom third, or maybe the bottom tenth, I didn’t humiliate myself). [...]

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The reality of multitasking – Setonian Online

The first issue of the Seton Hill student newspaper comes out tomorrow, but the articles are already online. I’m the faculty adviser, so naturally I’m proud. Way to go, new media journos!

“The human brain multitasks just fine. If you’re paying attention to me at the same time you are also regulating your heart beat [...]

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Mars Panorama — 10yo with iPad Pretends Her Bed Is NASA Rover

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Mars Panorama — My 10yo Pretends Her Bed Is NASAs Curiosi – YouTube.

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Brain Rules: The brain cannot multitask

Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time. At first that might sound confusing; at one level the brain does multitask. You can walk and talk at the same time. Your brain controls your heartbeat while you read a book. Pianists can [...]

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U.S.S. Requin — Extended Tour of the Cold War Submarine at the Carnegie Science Center

This view emphasizes the skyline.

Soon after WWII began, the USS Requin began serving as a training target for sonar crews. After several refits during the Cold War, she eventually came to rest in Pittsburgh as a museum exhibit in 1990. [...]

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An unreal Mars skyline

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That awesome image showing Earth, Venus and Jupiter from Mars? It’s cool, but according to Phil “Bad Astronomy” Plait, it’s from planetarium software. I was about to reblog it myself, but did a quick check first. An unreal Mars skyline | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

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NASA Calls It A Mission As Curiosity Rover Fills Up Whole 2-Gigabyte Memory Card

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More great satire from The Onion.

PASADENA, CA—Barely 72 hours after the landing of its Mars rover, NASA officials announced Thursday that their mission had ended, as Curiosity’s two-gigabyte memory card was now filled to capacity. “Well, that’s that, folks,” said chief scientist John Grotzinger, explaining that after Curiosity’s Mars Descent Imager took an especially [...]

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Flying Saucer Irony

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