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Plants strip electrons from water, and use them to help store energy in organic compounds. The left-overs are oxygen molecules. Any schoolchild knows we need oxygen, but few educated adults know why. If you hold a flame to cool glass, a small patch of condensation forms, a brief patch of fog. It is unexpected, and often missed, unless you look ...

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered· the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls· bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory. Marcel Proust, The Remembrance of Things Past A couple of ...

Vision: A quality science education fosters a population that...applies scientific knowledge and skills to increase economic productivity. 2009 NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards I am a science teacher, and occasionally a good one. I am certified by the state of New Jersey (Liberty and Prosperity), and paid by the Township of Bloomfield, ...

Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnas Sears and W.R. Harper of the University of Chicago and Edward Thorndike of Columbia Teachers College and other to be instruments for the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be ...

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you - just one word. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes I am. Mr. McGuire: 'Plastics.' A few years ago, when I was still playing doctor, the FDA released a ''Public Health Notification'' regarding plasticizers in IV tubing. Back in 2002, when King W sat on the throne, the ...

NORAD tracks anything that enters our airspace. That's their job. NORAD, therefore, tracks Santa. This cute joke started accidentally in 1955-- NORAD's number was accidentally published instead of a number that was supposed to lead to Santa. Our military came through, and made the most of it. From their site: Over the past 50 years, our ...