devant les enfants

almost everything we have done over the last two decades in the area of ICT education in British schools has been misguided and largely fut...

H, R

Piece on the Book Bench about reactions on Twitter to casting of an actress of color as Rue in The Hunger Games. Interesting.  Too slothful...

bargain!

Lightning Rods is available on e-book at Emily Books , $11.99.

I started doing exercises on the Khan Academy about 8 months ago as a way of taking my mind of crazymaking things I can do nothing about.  I...

I went to Meeting this morning at the Society of Friends in Planckstraße.  I got there very early; the woman who greeted me, Gisela Faust, t...

the ‘p' is silent, as in pshrimp

Norton will be publishing a new release of Leave it to Psmith in July.  (The phrase 'pterodactyl with a secret sorrow', another fav...

pa pa pa PAAAAAAAAA pa

n+1 held a panel discussion at Fordham back in late October last year, a reprise of an earlier discussion of "What we wish we'd kno...

Within any education category, richer people vote more Republican. In contrast, the pattern of education and voting is nonlinear. High scho...

hinc illae lacrimae

...the thing about Lightning Rods is that of all the books in the tourney this year, it is probably the one I would be least likely to re...

Quand j'entends Sarkozy qui fait des fautes d'accord du participe passé, je me dis que, moi l'Algérien, fier de posséder le fran...

oops

Made a rare visit to the dashboard and discovered that 20 comments were awaiting moderation. 15 or so were perfectly legitimate comments - I...

rerererereading

 As I've said, a journalist wrote to me back in November asking if I'd reread any books that mattered to me and asking various quest...

more bookses, precioussss

Back in November a journalist wrote asking if there were any books I had reread, why rereading might matter to a writer, a few other questio...

Richard Feynman and the semi-colon?

The novelist’s corrections appear to be more literary than scientific. In addition to suggested some rephrasing, Mr. Krauss, said, Mr. McCa...

the writer's life

...Each stage is easy enough, but it is a combination of all the parts that create the natural-looking, dwarfed, containerized tree in an ar...

Consider the humble punch card. Punch cards had been used in France to control textile looms since the early 1700s; the method was perfected...

if Buñuel had been into dinosaurs...

the discreet charm of Ryan North

will have had gone

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming you...