RT @Historiator: “The man who loved alien landscapes” — premier novel by Seton Hill U professor Albert Wendland dogstarbooks.blogspot.com/2013/09/dog-st… Similar:Parallel structure in writing: Use it!These comic panels cover the issue well….HumanitiesJuror's CreedWhile researching my obligations for #ju…CultureWhat kids do when Dad won't hand over the iPod So I’m not being selfish… this is …EducationIn Defense…
The headline made me click the link, and the lead made me blog it. (I confess I didn’t actually read the story, because I doubt anything could live up to that kind of an introduction.) A crackpot Times Square performer who was once busted making anti-Semitic slurs while dressed as Elmo admitted Wednesday he tried…
… but in real life, not every secret held by a private citizen is newsworthy. 2/2 @CordeliaLogan Similar:10 Rules of Internet – Anil DashA very useful, concise summary of web-en…BusinessYes, I do feel rather awesome right now.Lost brand-new earbuds. Reached in pocke…PersonalIn Defense Of Metaphors In Science WritingWe live in an elegant universe. The c…CultureFormer…
Very true! If this were a TV show with a reporter hero, these documents would uncover a huge conspiracy… 1/2 @CordeliaLogan Similar:Jury Duty UpdateI’m a happy, responsible, and no-longer-…GovernmentAnd the girl has succeeded in getting me to wear t…And the girl has succeeded in getting me…TweetsIn Defense Of Metaphors In Science WritingWe live in an…
Attention must be paid. Meanwhile, in the past year, her teaching load had been reduced by the university to one class a semester, which meant she was making well below $10,000 a year. With huge out-of-pocket bills from UPMC Mercy for her cancer treatment, Margaret Mary was left in abject penury. She could no longer…
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“2011 called. They want their meme back,” I teased a student w/ a Nyan Cat T-shirt. (I was NOT actually wearing my fanny pack at the time.) Similar:Judge: Apple conspired to fix eBook prices.Judge: Apple conspired to fix eBook pric…Books10 Rules of Internet – Anil DashA very useful, concise summary of web-en…BusinessProto iPads and Paper…
Then I realized… I’m a guy who gets excited about grading papers in a park. Similar:Am I a Bad Father Because I Let My Daughter Eat M&Ms in Her Mashed Potatoes?[poll id=”2″] AestheticsHow Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free PlayNormally, students and teachers in Finla…Culture'Little Mermaid' brings new music to the Andersen fairy tale -…
I used something very similar to this shoulder-bag mobile phone when I interned at a radio news station my junior year in college. —14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985. Similar:Reuben Klamer, designer of Trek's "phaser rifle" and Milton-Bradley's "The Game Of Life" d…Although more modern-looking rifles appe…AestheticsConfessions of a Former Bastard CopMedium is not…
Where did this idea of parallel universes come from? Science fiction is an obvious source: in the 1960s, Captain Kirk met his ‘other self’ in a Star Trek episode called ‘Mirror, Mirror’, while Philip K Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle (1963) imagined an alternate world in which the US was a Nazi…
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Today the awkward but delightful “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me explain why Shakespeare put the awful “Pyramus and Thisby” play after the main plot has resolved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. http://t.co/WSXD943LpG Similar:Mary Rodgers, Composer of Once Upon a Mattress and Daughter of Broadway Royalty, Dies at 8…Mary Rodgers, composer of Once Upon a…
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When I was interning at a radio station in the late 80s, the power went out. A generator kept the station on the air, but with no computers or phones, we had no news to report. As it happened, I had brought a copy of the university paper with me. The news director pointed me…
For Apple, “change” no longer refers to revolution. It refers to fashion. Apple is becoming more like Prada and less like Edison. This has been the case for some time, it was just harder to notice as the iPhone was undergoing large-scale adoption. But in retrospect, Steve Jobs’s keynotes functioned more like catwalks than like…
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She was a rookie in the autumn of 2001, the first female F-16 pilot they’d ever had at the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D.C. Air National Guard. [….] She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner…
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