In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting ...
A few weeks ago, after I wrote about surviving our final family ski trip of the season, a good family friend – a self-described homebody like myself – made a comment that was spot-on: “Being married ...
Recently, on one of those “today in history” moments that are the total of television’s nod to educational content, I discovered that it was the 125th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s invention of the ...
* Illustration: Victor Koen * Newfangled baubles come and go quickly; today's Blu-ray is tomorrow's VHS. Certain technologies long ago left behind by fashion, however, will always occupy a special ...
In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting ...
to this column. Unfortunately, you’re also dead wrong. Last week’s column explored the origin of the expression “ditto” and included a look back to the days when mimeograph machines were often called ...