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  • Thoreau Only Had Walden

    I’m watching a new generation of goose leadership develop – or fail to develop, as the case may be.  With Gander gone, it’s the first season when two geese nested on the island – for 8 years, he made sure that the only goose nesting on the island was his consort. His last consort returned, Read more

  • A Low IQ Isn’t a Learning Disability

    I was a beginning teacher – and I had a student who just couldn’t get it.  He’d done a tour in the army, where he’d been a Gama Goat driver.  A Gama Goat is about the closest the military gets to a rubber tired skidder, so I figured that his problems with math were something Read more

  • Remembering Flo

    I was a freshman at MSU when I encountered Manny’s – formally Manny’s Burger Inn.  It was one of these old diners built into the space of an old railroad car – less than a dozen stools, usually all filled. I’m remembering Manny’s because I’m seeing items resembling his menu offered in Eureka – steak, Read more

  • A Few More Charts and Graphs

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  • Ancient Mars may have had a carbon cycle − a new study suggests the red planet may have once been warmer, wetter and more favorable for life

    Elisabeth M. Hausrath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and is not too much farther out from the Sun. Because Mars and Earth Read more

  • Replace the Outlaw Board

    I’ve had some questions brought up after I pointed out that the composition of the LCHS board has been in violation of state law for the past 37 years.  The first question, repeated several times is “How did it happen?” In 1988, there was an election to unify Lincoln County High School and Eureka Elementary.  Read more