In the new Girl Scout curriculum, one of the Journeys is focused on energy conservation and global warming. The girls are supposed to calculate their carbon footprint, among other conservation goals. Global warming is in the majority of secular curriculum and educational products on the market to day in some form or fashion. And it’s [...]
The human body is a marvel and thanks to Science! and technology (“Technology!”?), we are becoming aware of how much more marvelous it is than we had ever imagined. The complexity of the design truly is awe inspiring. Mathematician Alexander Tsiaras recently gave a TED Talk presenting human life from conception to birth. It is [...]
Because I’ve told this story twice in the past week and I’m too tired to blog anything that makes my brain work: a story about Sprite, my 8 year old daughter. (That’s so you can skip this if you’d rather not read a mommy blogging post.) Last fall I was taking Sprite to something softball [...]
Both my boys have been sick this week. They think the best way to inform me of said sickness is to come into my room and vomit on my bed. Or, as 3 year old Satchmo said, “I burped.” I have a post about social conservatives and small government banging around in my head (making [...]
It’s not Monday, yuck Monday. It’s not humpday. It’s not Thursday, YAY Friday’s almost here. It’s not TGIF. It’s not the hip, happening weekend. It’s just sad, pathetic Tuesday. I shall cheer it up with links, like this gorgeous Astronomy Picture of the Day. And this wonderful post by Ali. If you’re looking for people [...]
My children have been struck with a very strange virus: vomiting and general tummy ickiness for approximately 12 hours, then *poof* all better. Which is really not bad, except they’ve decided to overlap. So instead of 12 hours, we’re heading into 36 hours. Little Miss has not yet been struck with the vile bug(nor have [...]
O Lord, how manifold are your works!In wisdom have you made them all;the earth is full of your creatures.Here is the sea, great and wide,which teems with creatures innumerable,living things both small and great.There go the ships,and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.Psalm 104: 24-26 This image is from an October 2007 Smithsonian [...]
My blog is entitled “Question the Culture” based on the premise that I will, indeed, question the culture. And I’m actually working on a post on what we do when cultures clash. Really. I’ve been working on it for over a week. But it’s not done yet. So I’m going to link to people who [...]
No, this has nothing to do with the Subway kerfuffle. This is what has freaked me out. Smart sharks. Smart Great White Sharks. Great. The article explains that Great Whites rarely attack human. We’re aren’t their kind of food. So what’s the worry? They’re “intelligent, highly inquisitive creatures.” Scientist Leonard Compagno explains, “They feed on [...]
This is just fantastic. There is a tunnel under the Atlantic and people in New York can see people in London. (And vice-versa) It was supposedly started a hundred years ago. More here. I find it interesting that it is being marketed as an art project. I guess since there are much easier ways to [...]