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The web site of a local TV station is bragging that the DC Area Tops Index of Fit and Healthy Cities . The article says the metropolitan ar...

It's a term of law and governance from the Nordic, Germanic races. The Early English knew it as a council of elders, a court with its j...

I'm fond of the work done by a guy named Dave on a blog called Shorpy . He recently showed this old photo from collections in the Lib...

Social Leakage Close to a year ago, two scientists reported a serious violation of privacy policies among prominent social networks. They s...

Girl: Aaron! Hi! Guy: Hey! Are you going to the thing? Girl: Yeah, the thing! (guy starts walking away) Girl: Wait, Aaro...

I've begun reading a first-person adventure yarn which begins with the author telling us us what motivated him to sign on as purser on a...

In which I celebrate family and friends. A few months back my sister sent me Rebecca Solnit's River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and ...

My mother believed in early childhood education. When I was three she sent me off to a preschool down by the river in Scarborough. Weekday...

{ Brassai: Paris by Night (Bulfinch Press, 2001) and Paris de Nuit - Brassai (Art et Metiers Graphiques, 1933)} {Brassaï photographing Par...

Facebook and its principle founder, Mark Zukerberg, are taking a good deal of heat lately about changes that affect users' ability to ke...