Month: January 2006

Open Quote

Be they pretty, witty, long or pithy, post your quotations here, prithee.
An answer to Sphinx’s question — and I quote: “Will you ever make a quotes thread?” Sphinx, Jan. 20, 2006. The long-awaited thread is open.

Be they pretty, witty, long or pithy, post your quotations here, prithee.
An answer to Sphinx’s question — and I quote: “Will you ever make a quotes thread?” Sphinx, Jan. 20, 2006. The long-awaited thread is open.

Ask the GAPAs

Rosanne and Robert are in the question-and-answer business, after all. So go ahead–fling your questions their way. They promise to answer honestly and/or entertainingly, or not at all.

Rosanne and Robert are in the question-and-answer business, after all. So go ahead–fling your questions their way. They promise to answer honestly and/or entertainingly, or not at all.

(Thanks to Em for this brilliant idea for a thread.)
(And to randomrohanfreak, who proposed the idea back before R&R were ready to step into the spotlight.)

15 States Flunk School Science

How does your state measure up?

Last month the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a nonprofit education-research group in Washington, D. C., gave letter grades to public school science standards and curricula in 49 of the 50 U.S. states*. Here’s how they stacked up. (You can read the full report here.)

A: California, New Mexico, Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina, New York, Massachusetts
B: Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia
C: Washington, Utah, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island
D: Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Maine
F: Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, New Hampshire

* They skipped Iowa because it doesn’t publish school science standards.

MuseBlog RPG*, version 2006.1

*Role-playing game. To keep it interesting, the administrators are laying down a few rules and restrictions:

*Role-playing game. To keep it interesting, the administrators are laying down a few rules and restrictions. Characters may include

  • the Muses (from Muse magazine or ancient Greek mythology);
  • people or animals featured in the magazine (for example, tenrecs);
  • Muse editors and other staff members;
  • famous real people, living or dead; and
  • fictional characters first created before the year 1900.

Within the above restrictions, the choice of locations and adventures is up to you. This may require a little research, but we’re sure you can handle it. Fair enough?