TheEncogitationer

Robert,

The Science Notebook does gives a list of lab supplies and lab safety procedures, so it is a very good primer for a future Nobel.  I’m sure if the Notebooks had Music as a subject, a future Amadeus could be in the making too.  In both cases, immersion and practice are crucial.

Oh, and there are exercises for each chapter, so exploring m…[Read more]

Simon,

The Notebooks are not intended to be exhaustive (no credible book really is) and they recommend you to take your own notes if the teacher mentions something that’s not inside.  However, I learned new things just thumbing through them.

For example, I learned that Atomic Mass in The Periodic Table of Elements is just an average number of…[Read more]

Reg,

Of all the emergency provisions and tools I  have or have ever had, a “dousing rod” has never been among them, nor have I heard of “dousing” advocated in survival manuals as a valid means of finding water, potable or otherwise.  I sure wouldn’t bet my life on it.

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

I checked the shelf again and saw the English Language Arts Notebook.  It is every bit as promising as the other Notebooks.  It includes Parts of Speech, Rules of Grammar, Greek and Latin prefixes and Suffixes, Etymology, Reading Fiction, Reading Non-Fiction, Writing and Composition, and many more specific t…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

Since the Sunday School always has book recommendations and since it is approaching back-to-school time for a lot of people at least, I’d like to recommend a series of books I just recently discovered on the store shelves:

Everything You Need to Ace (Fill In The Blank Subject) in One Big Fat Notebook. The series has…[Read more]

Reg,

I shed no tears whatsoever for the decline of the Christian Right and only regret that it hasn’t happened faster in my own community.  I can’t count the numbers of times people come into the store giving out bible tracts and wearing T-Shirts with thoughtless scriptures like: “Iron sharpens Iron” from Proverbs 27:17.  (Uh, no.  It’s ha…[Read more]

Reg, Davis, and Fellow Unbelievers,

I’ve said before that if a bloodthirsty Autism-spectrum child could write, The Qu’ran would probably be what it would look like.  And that’s no slam against the overwhelmingly friendly children on the spectrum, of course, just acknowledgement of how they often repeat themselves.

The Qu’ran cribbed a lot from…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

Thank you for the well wishes on Independence Day!

(And parenthetically, for many prominent supporters of U.S. Independence such as Edmond Burke, the feeling was mutual for Irish Independence.)

Let us never forget the Founders who were not only shirkers of the world’s biggest Empire of their day, but heretic’s…[Read more]

Davis,

Or we could just let Facebook go the way of MySpace, Friendster, Microsoft, NetScape, AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, and every other “New, New Thing” that everyone claimed was a monopoly that was out to take over the world.

Autumn,

i) My parents had the right to decide where I went to school as well as whether or not I was home-schooled, or went to public, private, or a separate school board (e.g. Catholic school, but let’s not open that can of worms at the moment).

Under compulsory attendance laws, your parents only had the privilege to decide where you would g…[Read more]

Reg,

The funny story from The Onion is actually a refutation of “Critical Race Theory.”  Not all problems come down to “race.”  Some problems are caused by individual psychopharmacology. 🧉🍸🍷🍻🍹🍾