Westmoreland County Arts and Heritage Festival: Wacongo Dance Company

My daughter (in pigtails) joins the Wacongo Dance Company in an audience participation segment… then joins her cast waiting to perform her own show. Similar:Academic Writing BluesTwo days ago my problem was that I had n…AcademiaAnother visit to downtown Pittsburgh with my history-loving son.CultureBehind the art: The Westmoreland's 'Death of Elaine' beloved of staff and…

Justin Bieber, Hollywood drawn to steampunk movement

Do we really need Justin Bieber to make this story relevant? They’re steampunks, part of an international movement that’s a mashup of do-it-yourselfers, ahistorical recreationists and science fiction aficionados who are happily reliving a past that never was. The Victorian era was “a wonderful era when people were still being surprised by the world,” says…

Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

Despite the lopsided drawing and grey shading around the eyes, these are not the zombies, these are the protagonists of a government-issued graphic novel designed to teach general disaster awareness. Similar:Teenage Usability (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)Teens often work on laptops with track p…CybercultureIt's Friday night in July, and I'm jamming with my fall course preps.The dean…

I suspect my cupcake-fiend 10yo has been using my iPad again

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Too Hot? No Cooler Time To Honor The Steve Jobs of A.C.

Despite iPod-strong sales, air conditioning remained a luxury for many years. Newspapers in the ’20s and ’30s were still filled with headlines about thousands of deaths and “prostrations” linked to summer heat. It would be decades before most newly built single-family homes in the United States had A.C. — hard to believe today, when Census…

Atari tries to stay relevant at 40

It’s a stretch to say Atari has turned 40, since there isn’t much left but the name, but this is still an interesting read. Companies began collapsing and Atari was soon sold to a man named Jack Tramiel. Over the next decade, Atari made computers, a game console called Jaguar and a handheld game machine…

U.Va. board reinstates president Sullivan and prepares for strategic planning effort | Inside Higher Ed

Great writing, introducing the backstory while simultaneously focusing on current events. Back then, the faculty called for the resignation of two prominent board members, and many on the campus called for the entire board to resign. Tuesday, crowds applauded when the name of Helen E. Dragas, the rector, or chair, of the board, was called…