Tag Archives: Learning

Year in Cool – 2012

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Cathy LaGrow

I’ve been MIA here, lately. Turns out, writing a research-heavy historical memoir is massively time-consuming. Who’d have thought? However, there’s no way I’d miss our annual Year in Cool post, because writing this post is more fun than spending a … Continue reading →

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Quiet Time

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Cathy LaGrow

I saw a woman at the park the other day who held forth to a group of her friends, no kidding, for at least an hour solid. I kept looking up from my book, in astonishment – Yep, she’s still talking. … Continue reading →

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Death By Molasses

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Cathy LaGrow

Evidently, part of this blog’s mission is to bring you weird wonderful bits of history that you may not have learned about in school. Paul Revere’s midnight dash, Mrs. O’Leary’s pyromaniac cow, and Boston’s tea party? The U.S. Department of … Continue reading →

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The Year in Cool

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

I apologize – you’ve been misled. The title of this post is not The Year in Cool; it’s actually (in the spirit of Christmas) The Twelve Days of Physics. But if I’d said that up front, one or two of … Continue reading →

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Fiction in a Flash

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

I few weeks ago, my Twitter buddy Jay DiNitto told me he’d just published an e-book of Flash Fiction. My first reaction was, “What kind of fiction?” I’d heard the term before, but had no idea what it meant. I’d … Continue reading →

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The Mountain

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

On the third Saturday of May, in 1980. a thirty-year-old scientist named David Johnston headed up the gorgeous Toutle River Valley in Washington State, one of the prettiest places on God’s green earth. Johnston, who worked for the United States … Continue reading →

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Objects in the Mirror…

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

It goes far beyond the familiar warning about objects in our rearview mirrors, by now. I hate to tell you this, but all sorts of objects, everywhere, might not be anything like they appear. I’ve been reading a book that … Continue reading →

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A Magnificent Mind

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

It would have been so, so easy to dismiss him as useless. And many did, at first. His father died when the boy was still in the womb, and his grieving mother gave birth to him early. He was a … Continue reading →

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Into the (Not So) Deep

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

Hollywood has a long and fruitful history of making disaster movies that feature large quantities of humans being wiped out by “off-planet” forces: asteroids, solar flares, aliens, and so forth. From Armageddon to Deep Impact to War of the Worlds … Continue reading →

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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis – a Q&A

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Cathy LaGrow

Last night, I read this statement on CNN’s website: “A nation on the brink, Japan is coping with three disasters at the same time: a major earthquake, a sweeping tsunami and a deepening nuclear crisis. Any one of these would … Continue reading →

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