Memories from Childhood (by George Arnaldo)
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RUGRATS: Teaching kids that it’s okay to marry someone of the same gender since 1999.
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When Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon in 1969, the spacesuit they were wearing was made not by a military-industrial conglomerate, but by Playtex—makers of women’s underwear. Nicholas de Monchaux, author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, explains how the Apollo spacesuit holds crucial lessons for how we approach technology, and our own human nature. (Image via boingboing.net)
It’s a widescreen iPod! No, wait, it’s a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email! Best of all, it comes with Cingular phone service and Google’s groundbreaking maps!
It was six years ago Wednesday that Steve Jobs strode on stage…
It could be so simple — you just leave your house and your Internet-connected T-shirt will tell your social networks where you are going.
At International CES 2013 on Tuesday, one of the creators of the Internet, Vint Cerf, gave a talk about the future of the…
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is Not Standard English with Mistakes
Items covered in this link:
- Languages, Dialects, and Rules
- The African American Vernacular Dialect of English
- Myths about ‘Be’
- Negative Concord: Don’t Want No Double Negation
- Negative Inversion
- Dropping Consonants Right and Left
- Somethin’ Bout Nasals
- Dialect Switching
- Not All African Americans Know AAVE
AAVE is neither the language of the uneducated or slang of the streets. It is a language. A true language just as Italian, Spanish and British English are true languages. To imply otherwise is both factually incorrect and a sign of your own ignorance in a subject you know nothing about.
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RUGRATS: Teaching kids that it’s okay to marry someone of the same gender since 1999.

When Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon in 1969, the spacesuit they were wearing was made not by a military-industrial...


Tricycle House | People’s Architecture Office
IfWhen an overpopulation crisis occurs, I’m grabbing one of these!
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We drool over and treasure beautifully illustrated children’s books, but are...

A fun way to introduce cursive that helps the students become engaged in the topic.