The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards, often called the "American Nobels," will go this year to three scientists who he...
Crock pot apple butter
All-Day Apple Butter Time: 15 minutes prep; 12 hours in the crock-pot. Yield : 4 pints Ingredients: 5 1/2 pounds tart cooking apples, peel...
'Labor was there, leading the way'
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's speech to the AFL-CIO convention over the weekend was even better than we reported yesterday . She...
Jaw-dropping pay package for McKesson's CEO
John Hammergren makes so much money that his company, McKesson, pays him an extra $17,000 for a financial planner to count it all. McKesson...
U.S. House schedule for Tuesday, September 10, 2013
From Majority Leader Eric Cantor.... TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH On Tuesday , the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. ...
Today's Teamster News 09.10.13
Teamsters, Paratransit Services management reach tentative deal Lake County Record Bee ...Teamsters Local Union No. 665 and Paratransit...
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/10/2013
Wolfram Technology for STEM Education: Virtual Conference for Education 2013 This September 17, Wolf...
SBC Church Hosting an Ergun Caner "Call for Discernment" Presentaton on the "Great Evangelical Cover-Up" - Right in Caner's Back Yard
" English was not my first language ....and I walked into that little church, my English was very poor ...they didn't make fun of m...
One Lucky Bastard
Quick reflexes too. They probably had to pry his ass off that seat. Pucker factor 10.
Microsoft Surface 2: Taking Place on September 23
According to rumours Microsoft is going to launch the second version of Surface with the tag of Surface 2. The event of Microsoft will take ...
The Google in Education K-12 summit and an optional pre-summit one day workshop are taking place this month. Join us!
In a couple of week's time, on 26th and 27th September , SchoolNet and Parklands College are hosting the first Google in Education K-1...
Stoves!!
Can you believe that it is that cold that we are looking at buying a stove by the end of September?! We even put the thermostat on the unde...
Elkanah Superstars return from the Microsoft Office Specialist Worldwide Competition held in Washington
This is a guest post from one of our SchoolNet members, Linda Foulkes, from Elkanah House High in Cape Town. Two of her students were chose...
Let's Get Random Y'all
Hola y’all! I don’t have shit for ya so it’s time for some random thoughts… When are acid washed jeans gonna come back into style? I always ...
The eve of 9/11
It's the day before September 11th. This year marks 12 years since that beautiful September day when terrorists attacked America, killin...
Long-Term Promise: More Cash! Less Work!
The following chart shows the 12-month moving average of real currency in circulation per American nonfarm payroll employee (July 2013 dolla...
The Consumer: New Concerns on Robotic Surgeries - NYT
In early March 2009, Erin Izumi, a woman in her 30s from Tacoma, Wash., underwent robotically assisted surgery to treat endometriosis. The o...
Hard Cases: Penicillin Allergies Overblown - NYT
The woman with the swollen red leg was selling us one bill of goods after another. She said she had stopped injecting drugs years before; th...