As a public school teacher, I spend time with young children who are learning their alphabet, vowels and consonants, and how to pronounce words. Of course, they don’t need to know this to talk. We don’t learn to talk by studying consonants. We learn to talk by being around talking people. But to write and [...]
Attached is the .mp3 from the Forward of my upcoming audiobook, “Got Gumption! Survival Skills for the Financially Desperate.” Scanning the bookshelves at Hastings, I saw that there is not a single resource for people who are in a desperate situation. People who are choosing between food or rent; gas for the car, or keeping the [...]
Five years ago, I was the odd parent who was texting his teenagers. Today it is the rare parent that doesn’t. Five years ago, I had an account at Myspace, which I believed was one of the ugliest websites I’d ever seen. Now, thanks to the graphic below, we have a picture of a much [...]
Whenever I substitute teach in High School or Middle School, I survey my classes by asking “Do you use Facebook?” The answer is usually everyone. But when I ask “Do you use Twitter?” the unanimous response is “No. Why would I?” Twitter appears to most people to be a vanity tool used to announce what [...]
If we’re going to get a new Earth, God must have some pretty serious TNT up his sleeves. Sam Hughes at Things of Interest says at http://qntm.org/destroy “You’ve seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You’ve heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting [...]
“Stupid risks are what make life worth living.” – Homer Simpson
Are We Losing Our Memory? How ever-changing technology is causing us to lose the visual record of our history.: Rising over the battered surface of the moon, Earth loomed in a shimmering arc covered in a swirling skin of clouds. The image, taken in 1966 by NASA’s robotic probe Lunar Orbiter 1, presented a stunning [...]
In the Winter 2000 issue of Whole Earth Magazine I came across an article about Long Now Foundation’s work to create a 10,000 year clock. (shown above) The following comment in the article caught my eye. “Danny Hillis’s idea was that by slowing down the usual speedy movements of a clock, he hoped to slow [...]
Today, while driving to Ephrata, we were listening to the classic rock station. I looked at my 12 year old daughter and asked “who is this band?” She gave me a sheepish look and said “I don’t know.” I threw up my hands in despair and said “U2!” I’ve been on a path to try [...]
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