Real Americans live in small towns like Wasilla, Alaska
Jon Stewart's team explores Wasilla:
Our failure to plan
We no longer have the discipline and intelligence to plan, and that is our biggest problem, according to James K. Galbraith, who wrote a piece called “Plan” in Harper’s Magazine. Our system is not capitalism. Our economy has a large public sector, which at its best was competently concerned with…
People are like Donuts
People are like donuts--topologically, that is. My daughters and I explored this strange statement with a clay figure modeled around a pen (and then I pulled the pen out). What is topology? Topology (Greek topos, "place," and logos, "study") is the branch of mathematics that studies the properties of a…
How Andrew Sullivan blogs
In a recent article in The Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan has eloquently described how he blogs. Reading this article is a chance to see into the mind of a well-established and well published writer who only later discovered blogging, yet took to blogging with great enthusiasm. Sullivan sees blogs as a…
Sarah Palin sings jazz
Impressive musicianship by Henry Hey, the pianist for Rudder. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlwwFZdXck&eurl=http://www.audiogoldfish.com/2008/10/palin-song.html[/youtube]