Controlling weather

Here’s an article expressing a view I can’t say I’m familiar with. I had no idea the military and a slew of corporations have already been intentionally and successfully impacting local weather. It seems there are various ways to control local weather phenomena, but what’s more difficult to predict or control is the [...]

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Disbilities and politics

A couple days ago I was packing my daughters’ lunchbag in preparation for dropping them off at a friend’s house for babysitting while I had coffee with a friend.  Right on the cover of L’s Brown Cow chocolate cream top yogurt snack, was this endorsement:  “Add a Brown Cow to your gluten-free diet!”  So, gluten-free diets [...]

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What do they need to know?

There’s a movement within the home school movement that emphasizes completely child-lead learning.  No curriculum, no textbooks (unless the child wants one), and from what I can understand, no structure beyond the normal routines of the family.  This approach to education is called unschooling.
I’ve gone back and forth over how I feel about unschooling.  I’ve [...]

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