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Wild Violet Patrol

I withdrew from blogging for a while to garden. ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Apr 13 2010 - 10:22am

Americans Don't Want Health Care Reform, But Actually Do, Poll Shows

Despite their vocal criticism of the health care legislation enacted by Congress, the majority of Americans want some kind of reform, according to a new poll conducted by Indiana University's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research (CHPP ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2010 - 10:35am

Morning Science Quote

Biology is entering a period where the science can be underlaid by explanatory and predictive principles, rather than little bits of causality swimming in a sea of phenomenology.- Eric Davidson, quoted in Nature, 1 April 2010 issue, p. 666 Read the feed: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Apr 14 2010 - 6:04am

Arctic Bright

Arctic Bright Another little poem which I hope will be of use to educators and students of EFL. Please feel free to copy for educational purpose or other, similar fair use, with attributions. Arctic Bright I dreamed last night of Arctic white  of Arctic n ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 14 2010 - 7:06am

Star Lego

Star Lego I just came across this excellent YouTube video. Enjoy! ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 14 2010 - 5:51am

One Year Ago I Moved Here

This is just to mention that I have been blogging for this site for exactly one year. During the last twelve months here I have observed a few changes from the old blog which I ran at wordpress. First of all, being hosted in Scientific Blogging extended my ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2010 - 4:50am

U.S. Church Attendance Undergoes Major Changes

If church attendance is any indication, Americans are as religious as they were 30 years ago. But the makeup of the nation's congregations has undergone significant changes during that same stretch, according to a study published in Sociology of Relig ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2010 - 12:08pm

Gasp! Health, Life Insurers Heavily Invested In Fast Food

Life and health insurance companies are greedy, for-profit enterprises that do not care about public health, according to Harvard researchers writing in the American Journal of Public Health. Why such scorn for the insurance industry? The authors of the st ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2010 - 6:04pm

E-Readers Encourage Kids To Pick Up Books

Electronic readers allow children to interact with texts in ways they don't interact with the printed word, encouraging them to read, according to Kansas State University professor of Education Lotta Larson. Since fall 2009, Larson has been using the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2010 - 11:35am

Eyjafjallajökull- Thats Easy For You To Say!

Eyjafjallajökull- Thats Easy For You To Say! Eyja   fjalla   jökull It's not LL as in miller. It's TL as in antler. Stress is on syllables shown in bold. "Eyja"- island- ay uh as in sayer "fjalla"- mountain- f yat le with fy ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Nov 8 2013 - 9:11am