Skateboard Acrobats

Skateboard Acrobats

If you love skateboarding and if you love Venice, and if you are curious to see how a skater can live there regardless of the cronic absence of sporting structures (no skate parks, no way), have a…
Rapture This

Rapture This

Folks went apeshit over Stephen Hawking speaking his belief that heaven is a fairy tale. Some crazy fool insisted the rapture was today. And the world turned on. And on it will turn.…
The Progressive War On Science Education

The Progressive War On Science Education

The need for more science education is so ingrained in the science lexicon it has practically become a mantra.   This makes sense; without question America leads the world in science output,…
Who Would You Pick To Play Marie Curie?

Who Would You Pick To Play Marie Curie?

First, a cultural fact: The NFL Draft can be seen for three solid days by every cable subscriber in America.   This is hours and hours of nothing but 30 seconds of reading out a name punctuated…
Schedules are better than plans

Schedules are better than plans

Just a quick note today, on getting DIY stuff done.  Schedules are better than plans.  Just blocking out the time during which you will tackle a task is more important than figuring out how…
Conflation of Ignorances

Conflation of Ignorances

An interesting bit that came my way, which I will let stand by itself:    So it is sometimes hard to browse through a popular bookshop without encountering the kind of volume that takes UFO…
Could Facebook Erase Your Memory?

Could Facebook Erase Your Memory?

I have trouble keeping my appointments. I didn't use to, but one day my parents told me to buy an agenda. They thought they were doing me a favour. So I started writing down all my appointments in my…
The New York Times War On Stay-At-Home Mothers

The New York Times War On Stay-At-Home Mothers

The 1950s were a golden age in America economically - a huge chunk of the middle class had a car and a house and a good life with only one parent working; a pipe dream in today's economy, but income…