Almost a million dollars for potato research!

By Valerie | March 27, 2009

No wonder our economy is in trouble. This kind of thing just makes me shake my head. $900,000 to fund potato research. Last I heard potatoes were farmed for profit… so why is the government paying for the research? http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=46134

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Ice Cream & The Election

By Valerie | January 17, 2009

Excellent analogy! (I got this via email from a good friend I used to work with.) From a teacher in the Nashville area. Who worries about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream? The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was…

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