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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Mind & Society|| History|| Connected Worlds|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Germany, Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace
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Red rocks.

The Library Has Landed! Phoenix Takes Books to Mars

June 11, 2008

Human interactions with the Red Planet have long been a blend of wonder, science, imagination, fear, longing & engineering. In honor of this interplay, The Planetary Society has placed a DVD among the scientific instruments on board the Phoenix Lander that touched down on the Martian south pole this last memorial day. And it carries books.

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Shelved with: Science & Technology
Tagged With: Gene Roddenberry, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Holidays, Mars, Memorial Day, NASA, Phoenix Mars Mission, Planetary Society, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, Space, University of Arizona
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Homeschool Moments: Dishing Out BOF, Dealing with Prejudice

June 1, 2008

Overcoming prejudice and distrust is not a one-time attitude adjustment, but a continuing journey in the company of people who are not like us, but who may become our civic friends. Such a strategy might go a long way toward more important goals: building a supportive environment for homeschoolers, and reinvigorating the varied practices of education & learning in America today.

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Shelved with: Education|| Hearts & Minds|| Continuing Stories|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Parenting, Politics, Prejudice, Race, Ralph Ellison, Memorial Day, BOF, Civil Rights, Community, Danielle Allen, Democracy, Education, Elizabeth Eckford, Food, Homeschooling, Lifelong Learning, Martin Haberman
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