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Haiti earthquake
The major earthquake near Port-au-Prince has destroyed hundreds of buildings in the Haiti capital, probably killed thousands, and the news looks very bad. The Lambi Fund blog entry is brief and upsetting. If there’s one good thing, it’s that when I attempted to donate to the Lambi Fund, the form is hanging on submission, and I hope that’s […]
Happy Thanksgiving
When I was a young(er) adult, Elizabeth and I would visit her maternal grandparents for Thanksgiving. There were some significant differences between those meals and the Thanksgiving traditions I grew up with. First, Elizabeth’s relatives could cook, and while my mother is a wonderful human being and could make sure that a bird was prepared […]
Don’t exercise: you’ll destroy the world
If you had asked me this morning what I expected from the latest round of NAEP math scores and what was going on in DCPS, I would have told you to expect NAEP math scores to increase at a snail’s pace with loads of arguments about what that meant, that Michelle Rhee seemed to have […]
Galileoscope constructed
It’s been a frustrating week in some ways, so I took an hour off to look at the Galileoscope package that arrived a few days ago. Could a non-science person who is only moderately handy put a $20 telescope with supposedly great optical features together? I guess he could. And then he pointed it at […]
Serious science toy for the International Year of Astronomy: the Galileoscope
Galileoscope (not the ones in my house) I wasn’t going to mention it here until I got my hands on it, but the two Galileoscopes I ordered in the summer finally made their way to my house yesterday, so I can now tell you all: they’re shipping! They’re real! One is for us and the […]