A second child of mine will be out in the world in 9 hours if all goes to plan ( Read more... )

I tell William a story every night at bed time.  I usually make them up on the spot and place them in some fantasy world that he is interested in, batman, star wars etc ( Read more... )

What we have is a system wide failure; Market, Corporate, Government, Consumer.. how ever you want to slice and dice the system it allowed a bubble to occur and it put itself(the system) in jeopardy ( Read more... )

"The Bush administration, moving to prevent an economic cataclysm, urged Congress on Friday to grant it far-reaching emergency powers"

The scariest half sentance I have read since 9/11.  The second half does not make me feel better.

"to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in distressed mortgages despite many unknowns about how the plan would work

It all starts out innocently, teaching our children to manipulate ( Read more... )

I think Hillary will make the best president of the 4 likely candidates ( Read more... )

I am going over neurogirl's Inovation Academy Petition, which lead me to look up the California State Science Standard.

Kindergardners are supposed to know the following about physical science:

Physical Sciences:
1.Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted. As a basis for understanding this concept:
    a. Students know objects ( Read more... )

Caustic article on Facebook in the guardian ( Read more... )

100 years ( Read more... )

In response to> http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/01/supporters-of-science-must-adapt_22.htmlRead more... )