Author: Kidspeak

For a few glorious moments this afternoon, we had a great distraction from the political struggles of the day:  A corn snow! I’m no photographer. All I have is our old point-and-shoot  Olympus, but I had to take...

What follows is a specific contrast to TeacherToni’s excellent diary on teachers’ unions…with my thanks for all of the excellent series on unions. Before the beginning Teaching is one of our family curses. I...

Promoted by Steven D. The War on Privacy continues . . . The Senate cast its vote yesterday, passing another bill of Orwellian name:  The Child Custody Protection Act.  9 Democrats crossed over and voted for this bill...

The war in Lebanon reaches far beyond that land, in great and small ways. One of my lab members, Thaira (not her real name) is American and Lebanese, a dual citizen. Her situation illustrates how this hits hard here in the U.S.,...

Promoted by Steven D. Every week my grad and undergrad students sit down with me for our regular laboratory meeting. It’s when we discuss the various projects that we are working on, touch base across different projects,...