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Babies, Perfect Pitch, and Upside Down Teaching
Google frequently suggests, through my phone, articles that it thinks I might find interesting. Most of the time it's not even close:...
sursumcorda, 15 October 2017 |
What Young People Can Do
Warning: This is an unabashed Grandma-brag—but it has a generally-applicable point as well. One of my recurrent themes here is...
SpaceX Launch
I'm so glad that the ending of the Space Shuttle program did not mean the end of being able to watch launches from our front yard ....
For Math Lovers Only
The article may be a little heavy-going, but I know some of my readers will love it. It's not often number theory makes the...
"Leaf by Niggle" and the Creative Dilemma
J. R. R. Tolkien said that Leaf by Niggle was the only one of his stories that wrote itself. It has long held a special place in...
Elon Musk Is a Visionary and a Potty Mouth
I suppose many visionaries were also potty mouths, and I also suspect Elon Musk's new rocket dream, the BFR, owes its name as much to...
Princess Awesome
I normally don't click on those "sponsored" Facebook posts, but Princess Awesome caught my eye more than once. Pink, purple, twirly,...
The Greatest Generation and Our National Anthem
My father would have considered himself a patriotic man. Even though he never served directly in the military—the government...
Toys Are the Tools
"These are your presents, and they are tools, not toys. " With these words, Father Christmas hands the Pevensie children the weapons...
Climate Change - If I Were the President
"I don't believe in Climate Change." "I can't believe I live in a country where so many people don't believe in Climate Change."...
Another First for Switzerland
Delivery by drone is here —or rather, in Switzerland. Swiss Post and Matternet—which despite the name's similarity to...
One Street Over
When we moved to this neighborhood more than 30 years ago, we considered buying a house on the street shown in the news story below ....
Farming in the Netherlands - EPCOT Come to Life
Our children, who grew up in Mickey's Backyard, and whose favorite of all the Disney World parks was always EPCOT, may enjoy the...
These Also Are God's Creatures
People tell me they couldn't move to Florida because they can't stand our bugs. Me, I'll take our giant cockroaches any day over...
Love Your Neighbor
Contempt is the sulfuric acid of love. This observation by John Gottman—from "The Calculus of Love", ...
Civil War Civility
This wise, and heartbreaking, letter appeared in this morning's Hartford Courant . If you wade through to page A7, you can see it...
Great Courses Fantasy
The Great Courses presented a contest this morning on Facebook: You're stuck on an island with the full Great Courses library and...
The Preservers of Knowledge
From The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien: Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years;...
Shadowed Paradise
Shadowed Paradise by Blair Bancroft (Kone Enterprises, 2011) Those who know me well will be surprised, not to say shocked,...
July 4 Flashback
Our first chair sousaphone player wasn't able to play with the Greater Geneva Grande Award Marching Band in this year's...
Straining Mercy
I can't help it. In the 60's we were taught to "question authority," but I think I was born to question popular opinion. Hence my...
There Are Not Two Sides to That - There are a Hundred
Supposedly—I add the qualifier because I have so little trust remaining for news stories, even from multiple...
Art Heals Sorrow and Preserves Memory
From The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien: Works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their...
O Canada
Here's a warning for those travelling to Canada: I was prepared for the border agent to ask if we were bringing firearms with us into...
Those Canannites
The New York Times story begins like this: There is a story in the Hebrew Bible that tells of God’s call for the...