Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA's Waterboarding Techniques

Women Listening To Men In Western Art History

Dignified Debate: The United Kingdom shows the rest of the world how to have a wise, honest, eloquent discussion about assisted suicide.

Indefensible: Why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyer is leaving the defense team—and the Army.

Labor Intensive: In Defense of Sex Work
Sex work is not a liability. It is a form of labor and art; its participants don't deserve violence or stigma.

What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's

Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?

After 85 Years, First Gremlin Found Alive

The Supreme Court’s city council prayer decision

18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies

Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings

Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

Between 1968 and 1973, somebody hijacked a commercial airliner nearly every week.

Queens of the Stone Age want your number, but it's not what you think — it's even creepier.

Stay gone, Snowden! Because despite what dumb people think, there is "no public interest exception to the Espionage Act".

The Race to Save Mali's Artifacts

“The Myth of Persecution”: Early Christians weren’t persecuted, says a historian of the early church.

Headlines of the Week (Or Whatever)

History is fun!
 
Olaus Magnus’ 1539 Carta Marina: An interactive Renaissance map filled with strange and wonderful monsters.

"This Misterie of Fucking": A Sex Manual from 1680

The Nazi Anatomists: How the corpses of Hitler's victims are still haunting modern science—and American abortion politics.

By God’s Bones: Medieval Swear Words.

"Vell, Mitt's just zis guy, you know?"*

Dressage. Really. Although I have friends whom are avid riders, I had to search to see for the definition of 'dressage'. Apparently, it's horse ballet**, and is also known as the highest expression of horse training. Regular folks - folks who work and pay taxes and worry about a mortgage - don't own dressage horses. We also don't declare a tax loss of $77,000 for the care and feeding of a dressage horse that qualifies for the next Olympics. An interesting parallel is that in 2010, the same year in which they declared that loss, the mean yearly per capita income was less than $28,000.

But, hey, he totally represents me as a citizen!***

*Zaphod is equally well-suited to be our President, and for exactly the same reasons.

**I'm not being sarcastic. That's really what it's called!

***I am totally being sarcastic.

Photo of the Day

Pioneer children!

So we spent most of Sunday at the Museum of the Great Plains. We're working on early America, so they had alot of good information and exhibits related to our current unit and then I let them loose in the science area. (The space set aside for the traveling, interactive area.)