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Added on: Apr 27th, 2005
Country: Turkmenistan
Language: English

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All Summer In A Day

Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 in video

This year, June has reminded me a lot of the Ray Bradbury story, All Summer in a Day. If you haven't read it, perhaps you've seen the 1982 short film in elementary school. The idea of years of rain broken by a single hour of sunshine seems particular...
Don't say "Sweepstakes" or "Nugget" around me.

Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 21:02 in language

Some people don't have words that bother them. I do, even if my reasons are inconsistent. Sometimes my stomach churns at the mere sound of a word, while other times it's the meaning or logic that upsets me. In spite of that, I have a soft spt Sweep...
Ninja Bees

Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 01:29 in science, Nature

The Japanese honeybee is now my favorite bee, a classification I didn't even know I had until I learned that they use teamwork to bake their enemies to death.American honeybees are defenseless against a seemingly unstoppable foe, the Japanese giant h...
A big house in the country

Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 20:28 in history

Sometimes a house can be a bit too big. While the English manor houses of the 16th and 17th centuries were not “McMansions”, they were certainly popping up everywhere with alarming regularity. Loseley Park is a sprawling manor house in Surrey,...
Grades and Professors and Kids Today

Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 11:07 in school

Inside Higher Ed just pointed their finger at some disappointing (but expected) new data:New research, which may not shock professors, suggests that the reason students protest over their grades is that they associate good grades with simply performi...
Gonorrhea Custard

Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 23:45 in health, history

Stay with me on this one. Recently, while skimming some News Briefs in the L.A. Times, I noticed a running theme (pun!) for the early 1970s: the rise of gonorrhea, aka the whites, drip, a race horse, G.C., clap, Jack, a dose, strain, gleet, morning ...