I really like good podcasts. Meet the Press is my favorite (a commercial-free, audio-only version of the Sunday morning NBC news show moderated by Tim Russert - perfect!), and I enjoy NPR’s Science Friday. But I got a jolt today while listening to the Science Friday episode from 10/14, “Engineering Better Humans.” […]

Excellent article by Mike Adams about recently-vetoed legislation to east North Carolina’s teacher shortage:
Fortunately, the North Carolina Legislature understands there is a crisis and recently passed a measure that would designate out-of-state schoolteachers as “highly qualified” in North Carolina if that distinction was earned in the teacher’s home state. Removing the requirement that new teachers […]

For anyone like me who was disappointed when the New York Times hid Thomas Friedman behind their Times Select subscription service, I’ve hacked together a Google News RSS Feed of Friedman’s columns carried by the San Jose Mercury News (here’s the search I used to created the feed).
HT: Micro Persuasion via Lifehacker

Provocative column by Thomas Friedman:
A delegation of Iraqi judges and journalists abruptly left the United States today, cutting short its visit to study the workings of American democracy. A delegation spokesman said the Iraqis were “bewildered” by some of the behavior of the Bush administration and felt it was best to limit their exposure to […]

John Wooden is one of my heroes. And ESPN has a great in-depth feature about Wooden at age 95.

The LA Angels got robbed tonight. Here’s the story from ESPN. Angels catcher Josh Paul caught the ball cleanly, the home plate umpire called the batter out (the closed-fist-punching-motion), then only after Paul rolled the ball toward the mound (since that was the third out of the inning) did the umpire indicate that […]

We have babies during the baseball playoffs. It’s just the way things have worked out.
Kierstin was born October 31, 2001 during the Yankees-Diamondbacks series that was played late because the week-long break in the season after September 11th that year. The World Series was full of pitching mastery (Schilling and Johnson for the […]