Quote: “Preschool attendance in Morocco has surged from 23% in 2018 to 73% in 2024 after a nationwide early-education reform.” Dana sez, I was lucky enough to visit Morocco in 2013 and I thought then that it was a place just beginning to go boom. You go, Kalal! Vietnam is reducing poverty through education, too.…
I’d forgotten all about Mary Engelbreit, even though I still have this on my wall, dating from the time I decided to become a writer. Whatever else was no longer an option. And while I was out she started a little diversionary line called “Engeldark.” Click here to see more. Quote: “[T] there has been…
Yep, pretty nerdy. But funny. (h/t Laughing Squid) Quote: “But what if you could just hold onto electricity for a bit and save it for later?” More and bigger batteries, that’s what I’m talking about. (h/t Wired) Quote: “A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the…
[from the stabenow.com vaults, 4/26/2010]
We are lucky in our lifetime to have scientists who are as able with their pens as they are with their petrie dishes, people like Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Lewis Thomas.
# Permanent link to Carl Sagan
My personal favorite is astronomer Carl Sagan, yes, he of the billions and billions. In his collections of essays, this curious and eclectic thinker writes about everything from the sex lives of dolphins to the prehistory of earth to Immanuel Velikovsky’s theories of alien visitation. No subject is safe from Sagan, in print or in life, and he was one of modern science’s great interpreters, even when it wasn’t strictly necessary, vide the following story.
