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Peter Mark Roget , inventor of the slide rule but most famous for his thesaurus , boon to poets everywhere, was born on this date in 1779. ...

Look what I have -- over there on the right. It's a widget with all the Cybils Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction nominees . I found...

"Over the coming year, an international panel chosen by The Globe and Mail will select the 50 Greatest Books ever written. Each week, ...

Sophie Gee, an assistant professor of English at Princeton University and author of The Scandal of the Season , wrote in yesterday's NY ...

Yesterday I quoted this section from a New York Times article about the tragedy of the Jacks family in Washington, DC, Mitchell L. Stevens,...

Kate at I Think Therefore I Blog hits the nail on the head about The New York Times 's misguided and insufficiently researched article ...

Kris Bordessa, who blogs at Paradise Found , home schools, and writes nifty nonfiction for kids, says it's Delurking Week so I believ...

No. 668, c1863 by Emily Dickinson "Nature" is what we see – The Hill – the afternoon – Squirrel – Eclipse the Bumble bee – Nay – N...

rendered in Lego by MicahBerger at Brickshelf . Click each thumbnail for a larger view. This turned up in my "Beowulf" GoogleA...

Canadian teenagers, from bad to worse. Much, much worse. A Good Samaritan became a victim of crime himself as he went to save a woman from...

The current issue of New Scientist reports on new American Speech . To which I can only add, sure, why the hell not? may i feel said yo by...

The last TedTalk to make a big impression on the home education blogs and groups was Ken Robinson's , on how schools educate children t...

The New Year's edition of the Learning in the Great Outdoors Carnival is up, hosted by Terrell at Alone on a Limb . Terrell writes, Lea...

The official announcement has been made over here , at the Cybils blog . You can find the remaining short lists up today, too, including No...

Twelfth Night in Historic Camden County Illustration from The Granger Collection, New York And it's always nice to have a holiday excuse...

I picked up The National Post while in town on Saturday afternoon, and found this article about a blog created by Bill Lamin of Cornwall, u...

Not all of them, just the ones the publishers were kind enough to send along, because with the short list ready to be announced tomorrow, I ...

my true love gave to me, twelve lords a-leaping. At first I considered the Lords of the Dance. Like the Nicholas Brothers, Or Russ Tamblyn i...