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A recent fast food survey reveals nothing new: the food stinks, and the service isn't much better. Nobody orders healthy fare. Sbarro...

With summer commencing, if not weatherly, at least calendrically and vocationally, I was ready to write a series of blog posts on some tidbi...

Whining is more annoying than a buzz saw, says a recent study... In raw numbers, people made more mistakes per math problems completed when...

You aren't.  (And yet you are.) But you aren't.

Whitman U's Jim Hanson sends along word that the NFL has released its slate of potential topics for 2011-12: 1. Resolved: The United Sta...

This wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last : Three women from out of the country drove their car into Mercer Slough in Bel...

The Olympia School District will be able to return all its RIFed teachers this year, thanks to the new contract overwhelmingly ratified by t...

Last Saturday marked the end-of-the-year celebration for CHS's Speech and Debate team. It's a celebration I've come to relish. W...

A while back, while blogging about the juvenile justice resolution, I tried to find a solid definition of the phrase "violent felonies,...

A mix of former global political figures and business executives are calling for an end, of sorts, to the War on Drugs. The Guardian's ...

In a neat little article, Slate's Nina Shen Rastogi asks, " How Would You Do at the National Spelling Bee? " She gives you 14...

Mars rover Spirit is gone for good? Probably . Chronic Fatigue Syndrome caused by a rodent virus?? Probably not. Government funds ri...

Enjoy your vuvuzela, you germ-spreading hooligan, you.

Yesterday's Science Carnival at The Evergreen State College brought a lot of science, and a little bit of carnival, to the public. The ...

The story first caught my attention in November . Now, in a humane and insightful piece, the NY Times magazine gives the incredible, philoso...

One of the bigger surprises of the 2011 legislative session, at least from this board-certified teacher's perspective, is that the bonus...

For this post, I'm not going to focus on the budget deal now heading for the Senate , which includes a 1.9% pay cut for teachers, which ...

After school. The phone rings. I answer it, trepidatious. "Hi, this is [redacted] from Wal-Mart, hoping to talk with you about [reda...

Up until now, negotiations over worker's compensation were the major holdup in Washington state's budget wrangling. No more: A pa...

I. Earlier this year, I recommended Lawrence Rosenblum's See What I'm Saying , which explores the lesser-known aspects of sensatio...