Archive for August, 2005

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

August 28, 2005This last week was the first week of school for me; S. starts this coming week. I think I’m really going to like this program at UGA—this was a good choice. I have an outstanding opportunity to work in a research laboratory doing educational research and evaluation projects and publishing articles. This is [...]

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

New drug lets us work harder, longer File this (which I read on Slashdot) in the “sometimes scientific advances AREN’T advances” department: Ryan O’Rourke writes “According to a study led by Dr. Sam A. Deadwyler and published by the Public Library of Science Biology, a new drug called CX717 developed by Cortex Pharmaceuticals has been [...]

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Vidstones- a new way to remember your ancestors I thought this was really interesting. Slashdot linked to a story today about vidstones. Here’s what they said about it: “A new company plans to unveil new high-tech tombstones with embedded flat screen monitors that would allow visitors to play memorial videos of the deceased. Joe Joachim, [...]

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Greetings from Athens! (08/07/2005) Hello y’all — yes, we are finally in the South! And yes, it IS possible to travel 38 hours in a car with two children and still love them when it is all done. ☺ We made the trek last weekend, arriving here in Athens on Monday night. We then had [...]