FWIW: Your discussion of beer costs inspired me to check what I had paid for a six pack of 14 ounce bottles, recently. It was on sale, so I paid just 12 dollars. Have no idea how that compares to pri… (View Post)

Too fun not to share:His signature issue was sounding the alarm about the national debt. The MIT-educated engineer designed, and frequently wore, a digital badge that shows in real time how much the … (View Post)

One of the greatest surprises of my life:The Mississippi Miracle is the rapid improvement of K–12 student performance in Mississippi since 2013, widely attributed to a series of policy, curriculum, a… (View Post)

From the previous thread: That Guardian list does not include Huckleberry Finn, or any book by Asimov, Clark, or Heinlein. Which reminds me of a conversation I had with a good friend, recently. We ag… (View Post)

Smart kid: CHERNIHIV, Ukraine — On a cool evening last month, 12-year-old Anatolii Prokhorenko was up in a pear tree, cutting off a damaged branch for a neighbor, when he heard the buzz of a drone. A… (View Post)