December 2011
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Anonymous asked: are you shy?
Dec 31st
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What Caused the 4th Mass Extinction?  →
Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth,the most famous of which is the extinction of the dinosaurs. A plethora of research has been conducted to determine how the dinosaur era ended, generating theories of massive volcanic eruptions, catastrophic climate change and giant impactors from space. However, much less is known about another...
Dec 30th
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Seanier learns Icelandic
I think I may have mentioned a while ago that I decided to make a point this Christmas break of learning as much Icelandic as I could. It seems to be going well, seeing as I just read my first paragraph in Icelandic without relying on a translator, vocabulary list, or dictionary! Granted, it was very repetitive and largely consisted of place names, but at this point I will cherish the small...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Disappointed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
meredithwhiteisstupid: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reflects
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Say it with flowers.
I got a bouquet from my boyfriend today. Old-fashioned, I know, but nobody I’ve dated has ever given me flowers before. It consists of Irish Bells, a pale rose tinged dark pink around the edges, tundra cotton, and red orchids. So in addition to looking festive, it shows me that he really has been paying attention to the finer details of my strange assortment of interests. This one’s...
Dec 22nd
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lostsplendor: One thing that both the new Sherlock film and studying Russian History has taught me: family photographs rarely end well
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