This lizard makes a great spy — and a better read
Craig Brownlie
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“The Pirates in an Adventure with Communists”
More kid-friendly wackiness by Gideon Defoe
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Cracking the Agatha Christie case
Where did the legendary mystery writer disappear to in 1926?
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Museum of Kids Art
A new place for kids to learn the colors and the shapes
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The RAW facts
And then I saw the fnords… Between Adam Weishaupt and Dan Brown at the conspiracy banquet table sits Robert Anton Wilson (www.rawilson.com), keeping the conversation lively. (He and Umberto Eco provide the best banter all night long.) In the wake of the Da Vinci Code, you might think that a few of the conspiracy classics […]
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The mystery of Nikola Tesla
The prestigious Nikola Tesla Tesla is a rock band. Tesla is an electric car company. Tesla is the unit of measure for the strength of a magnetic field. And it all springs from Nikola Tesla (1856-1953): inventor, Edisonian clay pigeon, and dead guy. Now, David Bowie, naturally, portrays Tesla as a steampunk scientist in the […]
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Who is Jerry Spinelli?
Literature=Books We here at the Family Valued journalism school, typesetting pool, and ink refrigerator have randomly selected a 10-year-old from among the one immediately available. Who is this Jerry Spinelli guy? He’s a guy who writes cool books about school-age kids like in college, in fourth grade, et cetera. The books are funny. They have […]
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Visiting Toronto Youth Theatre
Toronto Youth Theatre A few years back, my son and I sat adrift in a Toronto hotel restaurant, considering our respective breakfasts. He was of an age when our interests did not necessarily intersect. And we were tired — not exactly up for a day at the museum or the zoo. Unaccustomed as I was […]
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The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
On top of Spaghetti So rarely does pop culture send out tiny, brilliant flares that I want to hide the ball for a moment. So let me begin with this e-mail: “I have recently read your article to the [Kansas] school board. You seem to be arguing that the FSM created the earth. I believe […]
