“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” - Plato.

“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge, that is curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known ( Read more... )

Things that went wrong today:

• Dentist appointment: need to get a crown.
• Crowns cost a lot of money out of pocket
• Ding-ed a car which zoomed behind me as I was backing out
• Rice cooker overheated, throwing dinner plans out of order (Followed by burning rice on stove)
• Lost every hand of poker except 2 pity hands

So I apparently contracted the flu over the weekend, not sure which flu exactly, but as far as I can tell, I am recovering slowly but surely. So while I sit in my apartment temporarily ignoring my bed (which I have spent so much time in the last 2 days), here’s some news of the world:

Ice Skating Bear Kills Circus Hand

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A ( Read more... )

A tradition that has grown with the popularity of Halloween is the “Haunted Trail” or “Haunted Maze,” a sort of expansion upon the age old “Haunted House” concept that had been so popular long ago until people realized that a house, or usually rather, a part of a house, was too short for the amount of terror one wanted to inflict upon somewhat ( Read more... )

The year before I entered high school, a group of seniors at my high school to be misinterpreted the word “prank” for “vandalism.” The day before graduation, they broke into the school and used frozen fish to break glass trophy cases, causing what apparently amounted to thousands of dollars of damage. The students, unsurprisingly, were expelled and ( Read more... )

a retelling

Once upon a time, in a village far away in the realm of fantasy, there lived a young man with a beautiful heart. Smooth and flawless, the bright red organ kept a perfect rhythm; the young man was very proud of his heart. Every chance he had, he would enjoy opening his chest for others to admire his heart, and they would all agree that ( Read more... )

Hi there. You must be the new guy. Welcome to our lab, let me show you around. We share the floor with three other labs. To your left is the Hong lab. If we are ever out of anything, feel free to ask any of their lab members, they're usually a lot more organized than we are. But don't mention this to Dr. Hong or our boss. If you let on, you will be ( Read more... )

The white and grey windowless building was quite generic, save for the plexiglas doors and a neon green sign shining the word “Epicentre” into the late afternoon sun. The Epicentre was a city-sanctioned teen recreational center, a term so broad that it essentially provided no description at all. This particular incarnation of a teen holding ( Read more... )

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So if you haven’t heard, Alaska redneck governor Sarah Palin is resigning her post at the end of the month. This move came as a surprise to just about everyone, considering she doesn’t have that much longer in office anyways. Immediately people began speculating about the real reason she’s stepping down, including suggesting that Palin was under ( Read more... )