Pictured above is not a work of art, but it should be thought of so as such. It's a rendering of surface ocean currents by NASA. That's right, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Wow. In an article brilliantly titled Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World’s Ocean Currents by Mark Wilson, [...]

Marcus is my cousin whom I grew up with in Flint, Michigan. Great guy. Congrats, Marcus! Share

In the Sunday New York Times a great article on new teaching standards, something called "common core." I like where these are going, having read the goals: The new standards give specific goals that, by the end of the 12th grade, should prepare students for college work. Book reports will ask students to analyze, not [...]