by James Heflin | Jul 20, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo makes an interesting, if oversimplified, argument about the right wing's online presence: I'm often asked why the right doesn't have a muscular online news presence that mirrors the reporting-intensive, fact-heavy...
by James Heflin | Jul 22, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
NASA's turn toward endlessly puttering around in low Earth orbit since the heady days of the moonshots irritates the kid in me. (It was, of course, 40 years ago today that Neil Armstrong did his lunar tarantella.) In the late 70s, many of us were drawing up plans...
by James Heflin | Jul 23, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Did they really find a daguerreotype of Phineas Gage, he of the giant railroad-spike-through-head caper? These folks claim it is so, and the photo does match Gage's life mask. He seems pretty stern about the whole thing in the picture.ADDITIONAL: Spaceweather.com...
by James Heflin | Jul 24, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
A UMass-Amherst doctoral candidate, Kathryn Lord, designed a study of dog barks. Some of the reporting that's coming from her study (but not this very interesting article) seems to be missing her point. She says that dogs don't bark to convey very specific...
by James Heflin | Jul 27, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I taught Freshman English at UMass for several years as a grad student. Eventually I taught an Honors class, which was a real pleasure, almost like an upper-level course. Before that, I did have a few (well, 2) good students in those years. Never have I seen a more...
