Annual Quilt Show a Winner
Over 100 quilts were on display for Scraps & Threads annual quilt show. In addition there were several special displays including Quilts for Cops, PIGS, Veteran Quilts, and the Star Baby Quilt Class. Quilts for Cops is a project spearheaded by Melody Casey. The guild is providing “small quilts for cops to keep in their…
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” -Robert Frost
Frog Eggs and Toad Eggs
Spring seems to have finally arrived, and soon the pond will be full of little frogs. As it turns out, frog eggs and toad eggs are different, and far easier to tell apart than the tadpoles. Frog eggs typically form nice clumps. -this years batch are particularly muddy. Toad eggs, however, will generally be in…
The Power Elites
About the time I was learning to read, C. Wright Mills was writing the sociological classic The Power Elite. Like his The Sociological Imagination, it is a text that remains insightful 60 years after his death. Mills was a conflict theorist, strongly influenced by Weber and Marx . . . and I suppose it would…
Thatch Ants
Our mound-building ants in this part of the country are Western Thatching Ants, Formica obscuripes.These ants are rather special because they generally have multiple active queens in a single colony – the young queens often help out and reproduce at home, instead of founding their own new colonies…
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An IQ Too Low for the Military
Jordan Peterson has a brief video on youtube describing the IQ cutoff the US military uses in recruitment. (Jordan Peterson | The Most Terrifying IQ Statistic) He explains that the army doesn’t recruit for people who score below 83 because they can’t be trained. I think he has simplified the explanation – the ASVAB is…
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Non-reproducible research
About 20 years ago, I realized that I had a fairly unique opportunity to test the hypothesis that 4-H was strongest where it was multigenerational – 4-H members grew up to be 4-H leaders, and the program was strongest where the multi-generational membership was the most common. I was working with 22 counties, and 4…
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