Announcing, the Keywords “Pinky and the Brain” Competition. Cheney: “George, are you pondering what I’m pondering?” Bush: “Wuh, I think so, Brain Dick, but…” Complete Bush’s sentence! Use the comments to submit your entries. For those who don’t know the show, Pinky and the Brain are lab mice who escape their lab every night in [...]
American’s top man in Baghdad, L. Paul Bremer, last week fired 28,000 Iraqi teachers as political punishment for their former membership in the Saddam Hussein-dominated Baath Party, fueling anti-U.S. resistance on the ground, administration officials have told United Press International. If true, this is truly, truly, stupid. My understanding is that almost anyone who wanted [...]
I never knew, but Helen Keller had meningitis when she was 19 months old. Why is this so important? Because, … she probably had 19 months of normal exposure to language … (by 18 months, some children start to express structured sentences, showing that they had been understanding them even earlier). So she probably soft-wired [...]