No Country Should Be Left Behind Why does my child’s homework keep getting harder and harder? Why are the education standards set so high? Kids should have a social life also. Shouldn’t they? The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide evaluation of 15-year-old school children’s scholastic performance, performed first in 2000 and repeated [...]

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Connecting The Dots Between The Blue Spots I have been aware about Congenital dermal melanocytosis, or commonly called Mongolian spot for some time now. I am fascinated by this and I’m curious to know just as to how many other people are aware of Mongolian spot. Were you aware? Mongolian spot is most prevalent among Mongolians, East [...]

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Reunion with Hagar. Reunion with Roth. What’s Next? Okay, so the gossip going around about Eddie Van Halen and one of the  best-selling bands  of all time is just rumor (a new album) for now. Will there be a new album in 2011? The reunion with David Lee Roth has paid off. The tour grossed $93 million. [...]

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Education Needs Accountability Not Excuses What is the primary purpose of education? Is it to promote job security for teachers? To promote political power in organizations across America? Shouldn’t the sole purpose of education be to educate children and to give them a chance to compete in today’s highly competitive environment, as well as to [...]

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TwitPic Comes Up With A New Look And Popular Users List The very popular photo website has come up with a new look and and a search button. I’ve sometimes wondered what would happen if they added a search button. Well, I never noticed one there before if it was there. Did you? Also at the TwitPic site [...]

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Mike walks across America from New York to San Francisco Man walks across America in his Levi blue jeans. The shooting is done using pixilation. The trip began June 17 in New York and ended July 1 in San Francisco. For the actual photography, the crew used a Canon 5D. More >> here Listen to [...]

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The American Crisis: The Degeneration Of Democracy Into Government Trend forecaster Gerald Celente has spoken again. Celente calls the current political system in the United States not communism, or socialism, but pure facism. Which is a merger of  corporate and government powers. State controlled capitalism is called facism, according to Celente. “Fascism, which was not afraid to [...]

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Jay Pasachoff and Williams College Astronomy team on Easter Island Solar Eclipse 2010: Finished Solar Eclipse 2010: Under 10 minutes remaining Solar Eclipse 2010: 30 minutes until the solar eclipse finishes Solar Eclipse 2010: Moon moving off the sun (Easter Island) Solar Eclipse 2010: Just the human eye view (Easter Island) Solar Eclipse July 11, [...]

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Ah, Family Enjoys Air Conditioning In The Dollar Store… Today’s economy is very different than economies of the past several decades. We are seeing complexities that dominate our family financial structures. For the first time in America, our purchasing power has stagnated and the signs are there to prove it. We are becoming thrifty out [...]

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Conan Is Now Star Of… Twitter Conan O’Brien tells CBS longtime correspondent Steve Kroft about his Twitter debut: “It’s technically not a performance and it really appeals to the comedy writer part of my brain. You’re limited to 140 characters. So, if you wanna say something funny, you really… it’s a great editing tool. It [...]

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