Pocahontas County Fare

Some people who live on remote mountain ridges worry about the government tracking their movements and infringing their rights. I assume tha...

I was excited to read this last week: Udacity and the future of online universities by Felix Salmon. Speaking of Sebastian Thrun, Salmon wr...

Earlier this week, Terry blogged about a Princeton study showing that All sweeteners are not created Equal . (Thanks, Terry!) The press rel...

For the past 18 months I've been working on a digitization project for local history materials. (Hence my unhealthy co-dependent relatio...

How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel--This is chapter 3, "Schrodinger's Dog." It's wonderful. I can't t...

I don't use Microsoft products myself, but I recently put together some training sessions on Excel spreadsheets. Here's the list of ...

I've finished grading chemistry exams and otherwise preparing for the classes I'm teaching tonight in Beckley, and, on an apparentl...

The last few days, I've been converting an OCR'ed text of William Price's Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County into sensib...

I've never been great at shifting gears mentally, so my current work configuration offers me a real challenge. I'm teaching courses...

I'm not sure when the Washington Post started doing this, (I read it using RSS feeds, so I miss things), but they've assembled thei...

I'm not surprised by stories detailing how our government spies on citizens. It was going on when I first learned to read the newspapers...

Reproduction of 2,100-year-old calculator deepens mystery: The model of the Antikythera Device is based on the latest discoveries of the mys...

I don't know where I got the wrong idea, but somehow, I thought that "Ponzi" was a mathematician or economist who described th...

She's remembered as a nurse, public health advocate, and career-minded woman in a patriarchal society, but I was fascinated to learn tha...

I've intended to post these amazing links for some time now: Seeing in four dimensions by Julie Rehmeyer in Science News describes a n...

This cartoon made the rounds at the middle school this past spring. I traced it to Johnnie Moore's Weblog on marketing and other busin...

Recently, our local TV news has been reporting a new study indicating that life expectancies for rural Appalachian women have decreased in t...

I found this amazing set of data anamations via Dvorak Uncensored . I wasn't profoundly surprised by the carbon dioxide production pat...

Crawford Killian has an interesting book review, Rich as Hell: Richistan: A Journey through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the N...

I read this article earlier this week: New Figures Show High Dropout Rate Federal Officials Say Problem Is Worst For Urban Schools, Minority...