"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." - Emilie Buchwald It was clear to me that there are benefits of reading to young children. Many of the benefits are hard to quantify, but they exist nonetheless. If a parent is taking the time to read to a...
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon"Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I'm not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I'm...
"Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight." - Alysha Speer"It's not enough to say you want to lose fifty, seventy, or a hundred and twenty pounds. Because once you hit those magic numbers,...
"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms." - William Powell"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today." - Ralph MerkleThese free ebooks...
"You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get." - Haruki Murakami"Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness...
"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory." - Ed Viesturs"It's a wonderful feeling to push even a tiny piece of the planet down beneath one's feet. If it's overhanging plastic, it's going to pump your arms like bloated sausages; if it's a steep...