Famous Works of Art Made Out of Vegetables

These concoctions are amazingly creative! Click here for more.

February 17, 2008 – Kosovo Declared Independence from Serbia

As journalist Michael Totten reports in City Magazine, Kosovo is one of the most unusual countries in the world. Although most of its citizens are Muslim, Kosovars are overwhelmingly pro-American, and Kosovo’s relations with Israel are excellent. Totten observes “No Arab countries have recognized the new nation’s existence yet, and only Saudi Arabia has said [...]

Hachette Publishing Group Giveaway Winners

Randomizer.org, that aleatory source of joy and pain, has selected the lucky recipients of these two books. The five winners for The Terror are: Velocibadgergirl Brian Angela C. Judith V. Paula The five winners for The Italian Lover are: Irene Y. mj Annie Marta Megan I will email you for your mailing addresses to forward [...]

Live Online Interview with Ben Sherwood, Author of “The Survivors Club”

Mark your calendars for February 19, 2009 at 11 a.m. Ben Sherwood, author of “The Survivors Club” will be featured in a live online interview at Hachette Book Group Radio. I’m listening to this audiobook now, and I am really enjoying it! Description of the interview: “Join us as we interview Ben Sherwood and members [...]

Who Believes in Evolution?

Read more about this survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life here. The Pew Research Center also provides a quick guide to the terms of the debate:

Sunday Treat – Richard Feynman on Bongos

On this sad day that we lost Richard Feynman in 1988 (see our post on the significance of this day here), we can remember happier moments of the Nobel Prize winning physicist. Below are two videos of him playing the bongos. The first shows him as a young(er) man. The second (from later in his [...]

Sunday Salon – February 15, 1564 and 1988: Important Times for Science

February 15 is a big day for science. It marks both the anniversary of Galileo’s birth and the anniversary of Richard Feynman’s death. Much of the way we understand the universe came from these two men. Galileo Galilei was born February 15, 1564. He has been called the father of observational astronomy, and father of [...]

February 14, 1818 – Birthday of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on February 14, 1818. As the Oxford African American Studies Center tells the story, “Despite his situation, Frederick managed to learn to read and write, sometimes by bribing white boys into teaching him in exchange for bits of bread. At the age of about [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Good Magazine has a humorous review of which terms to choose when introducing or identifying the object of your love to other people. Should it be “partner”? “Lover”? “Significant Other”? Alas, they forgot to analyze the worst of all: “friend” (said with quotation marks not pantomimed, but evident nevertheless). See how they analyze the words [...]

One Hundred Free Online Classic Books

Links to one hundred free downloadable classics (including such works as The Iliad, The Prince, Moby Dick, and Frankenstein), can be found here.