October 18th, 2011 by Nathan | 4 Comments
Perhaps it is unfair to pin this on Montessori schools. Because we had some of this in our daughter’s preschool, which was without discernible doctrine. And really, I’m happy enough with my boy’s school, beyond a vague wish that we could actually afford it. But still. There is a way of speaking that the Montessori [...]
March 2nd, 2011 by Nathan | 5 Comments
Some studies just shouldn’t be done. We know in the abstract that humans are basically constantly swimming in fecal bacteria. Can’t we leave it in the abstract? No, apparently. “Science” had to go looking for more details. First came reports that iPhone screens are bacteria farms (perhaps because the guys at College Humor keep playing [...]
February 22nd, 2011 by Nathan | 1 Comment
Via the (very tasteful and talented) Seattle-based photographer Kirk Mastin comes the apocalyptic gallery of pixel-pain that is Sasha Snow’s ‘magazine’. The Russians, it would seem, suffer greatly from macrophilia. They are also, apparently, either insane or blind. Remember how, in delving into the whole baby yoga crisis, I used some of my time living [...]
February 4th, 2011 by Nathan | 4 Comments
I had lunch with my cousin in New York this week, and it turns out that friends of his know the father at the center of the most awful thing I’ve ever heard. You might have seen the story: Julie Powers Schenecker shot her teenage son in the head “because he was talking back” (according [...]
