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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.(The Life of Reason, vol. 1: Reason in Common Sense)
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- Robert Redford, for NRDC, on the Keystone Pipeline fight
- Secret life of books, captured on video
- Bathtub myth still haunts the ghost of Millard Fillmore
- Once more: Where do I sign the petition? Ronald Reagan Memorial National Debt
- Rachel Carson in history — great post at Pop History Dig
- Climate change deniers in high dudgeon as leaked memos reveal their deceptions
- No cookies for this misogynist/misanthrope
- Automaton from “Hugo,” alive and well and living in Philadelphia
- Get your Texas Drought Survival Package from Texas Parks & Wildlife
- Presidents Day 2012: Fly your flag today
- Grand Old Tinfoil Hat Party — really?
- Quote of the moment: Abraham Lincoln on job creators, ‘labor is the superior of capital’
- Quote of the moment: “Shoulders of giants” (February 15)
- Duncanville district brags on its teachers
- NAACP, 103 years old today
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- Where do I sign the petition? Ronald Reagan Memorial National Debt http://t.co/KIBlRlUP via @wordpressdotcomSplashed: 1 day ago
- Slacktivist offers some good business and employment advice links: First, the good news http://t.co/azcjjvYvSplashed: 3 days ago
- Tom Peters-style advice on job interviews, sort of. Goblinbooks: Where Do You See Yourself In Five Years After We'v... http://t.co/XusWQ6x8Splashed: 3 days ago
- Grand Old Tinfoil Hat Party -- really? Santorum shows crazies on CBS - http://t.co/RshdcU2T via @wordpressdotcomSplashed: 4 days ago
- Remember Presidents Day 2012: Fly your flag today - http://t.co/7ZfjG916 via @wordpressdotcomSplashed: 4 days ago
- Famous quote + history: Abraham Lincoln on job creators, 'labor is the superior of capital' http://t.co/pQNmkYuy via @wordpressdotcomSplashed: 1 week ago
- Climbing "unclimbable" Canadian tors, women to match our mountains: Women at Work, Parts 1 and 2 http://t.co/bibNR7Hm via @wordpressdotcomSplashed: 1 week ago
- RT @NCSE: The battle over global warming and public perception. An exclusive excerpt from "The Rough Guide to Climate Change". http://t. ...Splashed: 1 week ago
- RT @AGWobserver: Carbon cycle model successfully reproduces CO2 changes through last glacial cycle (open access): http://t.co/u2q4PaNzSplashed: 1 week ago
- RT @AGWobserver: Italian mountain trees are losing their June temperature signal from their rings: http://t.co/XluMY4iESplashed: 1 week ago
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We've been soaking in the Bathtub for several months, long enough that some of the links we've used have gone to the Great Internet in the Sky. If you find a dead link, please leave a comment to that post, and tell us what link has expired. Thanks!- Watch videos at Vodpod.
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Currently warm bathing (top posts)
- 28 poems on living life to the fullest, today
- Based on a true story -- except, not Texas. Not a chainsaw. Not a massacre.
- Quote of the moment: John F. Kennedy, "We choose to go to the Moon"
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Who said that?
- Clay Bennett cartoons
- True story: Yellow Rose of Texas, and the Battle of San Jacinto
- What's in a name? A Texas town by any other name . . .
- "Do you believe in me?" 5th grader Dalton Sherman inspires Dallas teachers
- Lou Pritchett, you make me fear for my nation - an open letter to a former soap salesman
- Taos is beautiful this time of year
- Where do I sign the petition? Ronald Reagan Memorial National Debt
- Obama unchained oil and gas exploration in the U.S.?
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Embarrassing Bubbles in the Bathtub
Faucets of Information - Earth - Environment - Well-being
Faucets of Information - Economics
- Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy
- Adamant
- Arctic Economics
- Baseline Scenario, The
- Becker-Posner Blog
- Cafe Hayek
- Commanding Heights
- Common Tragedies
- Conscience of a Liberal
- Economists’ View
- Grasping Reality with Both Hands
- Greg Mankiw’s Blog
- Marginal Revolution
- Rabett Run
- Robert Reich’s Blog
- SquawkFox
- Unsettling Economics
Faucets of Information - Education
- 2¢ worth
- 3σ → Left
- A Fat Question
- A Shrewdness of Apes
- Action-Reaction
- Alfie Kohn’s blog
- Are we doing anything today?
- Around the Corner v.2 – McGuhlin.net
- blyberg.net
- Building the Teaching Profession
- Class Struggle
- Connecting Through Conversations
- Curricublog, Tony’s
- D-Ed Reckoning
- Daily Hurricane
- Dallas Morning News blog on DISD
- Dana Goldstein, Lady Wonk
- Docere est discere (Teach/Learn)
- Dreamteacher, The
- EarlyStories
- Edspresso
- Education and Technology
- Education Gadfly
- Education with Technology
- Education Wonks
- Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas
- Elementary Educator
- Evolved Homeschooling (webring)
- f(t)
- Farm School
- Fred Klonsky
- From the Trenches of Public Ed
- Getting Things Done in Academia
- Halfway There
- JD2718
- JoanneJacobs.com
- Language Log
- Learning.now
- Leiter Reports
- Living Classroom
- Math Tales from the Spring
- Motivated Grammar
- Motivation Matters (at EdWeek)
- National Council for Social Studies resource page
- NYC Educator
- One Laptop Per Child News
- Our Global History
- Outside the Cave
- Primordial Blog
- S.P.P.D.F.T.
- School Law Blog
- Schools Matter
- Stephen’s Web, by Stephen Downes
- Teacher in a strange land
- Thoughts of the President
- Today’s Homework
- Weblogg-ed
- Where's the teacher?
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
Faucets of Information - Geography
Faucets of Information - Government
Faucets of Information - History
- A History Teacher
- Airline Empires
- American Heritage
- American Presidency Project
- American President
- American Presidents Blog
- Another History Blog
- Bharat Museum
- Boston 1775
- Charters of Freedom (National Archives)
- Chicago History
- Civil War Memory
- Clio Bluestocking Tales
- Cliopatria
- Edge of the American West, The
- Elektratig
- Fake History
- Famous Trials (Douglas Linder’s site)
- Frederick Douglass's Women: In Progress
- Gilder Lehrman Institute
- Got Medieval
- Great American Things
- History 128: U.S. history through the Civil War
- History is Elementary
- History News Network, Teachers’ Lounge
- History on Trial
- Holocaust denial on trial
- Houstorian
- Lone Star Junction
- Musings from Sumigirl
- National Archives of the US
- National Center for History in the Schools
- National Constitution Center
- Old News
- Our Global History
- Patriots and Peoples
- Public Historian
- Slavery trials, Library of Congress
- Student of History
- Texian Web Ring
- Uncovered History
- World History Blog
Faucets of Information - Science
- A Quantum of Knowledge
- Afarensis
- Anti-Climage Change Extremism in Utah
- Astrobiology Magazine
- Austringer
- Austringer, The
- Bug Girl
- Center for Conservation Biology
- Climate Change
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Darwin Report
- Deltoid
- Farm School
- Geo.Sphere
- Global Warming: Man or Myth?
- Greenfyre
- Highly Allocthonous
- M@narch's Nature Blog
- Naught Much
- Neighborhood Toxicologist
- Open Mind
- Pharyngula
- Planet of the Apes
- Quantum Diaries Survivor
- Questionable Authority, The
- Rabett Run
- RealClimate
- remote central
- RNA Underworld
- Sandwalk
- sciencegeekgirl
- Skeptical Moth
- South Carolina Birder
- Talk.design
- Texas Climate News
- Universe Today
- Urban Science
- Why Evolution Is True
- Women in Planetary Science
- Women in Science
Faucets of Information - Texas
- Best of Texas
- Blog of the Airtightnoodle
- Bluedaze
- Brains and Eggs
- Burnt Orange Report
- Californian in Texas
- Capitol Annex
- City Limits
- Daily Hurricane
- Don’t Mess With Taxes
- Eye on Williamson
- Fabulous Geezersisters’ Weblog
- In the Pink Texas
- Jobs Anger
- Kerr County Conscience
- Left of College Station
- Lone Star Junction
- Margaret and Helen
- Mug Shots
- Musings
- Oak Cliff Yesterday
- One Hundred Monkeys in Texas
- Planet Pooks
- Political Teen Tidbits
- Post Cards from San Antonio
- Real Live Preacher
- Ruth Pennebaker
- So Far From Heaven
- So Much Food, So Little Time
- Somervell County Salon
- Spanish-English Word Connections
- Texas Blue
- Texas Bookshelf
- Texas Climate News
- Texas Forums
- Texas Less Traveled
- Texas Progressive Blogs
- Texas Weekly
- Thoughts About Things
- Will’s Texas Parlor
- Young Texas Reader
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Come clean with the world
Flu in your school?
CO2 bubbles?
Birds chirping underwater?
- Where do I sign the petition? Ronald Reagan Memorial National Debt http://t.co/KIBlRlUP via @wordpressdotcom 1 day ago
- Slacktivist offers some good business and employment advice links: First, the good news http://t.co/azcjjvYv 3 days ago
- Tom Peters-style advice on job interviews, sort of. Goblinbooks: Where Do You See Yourself In Five Years After We'v... http://t.co/XusWQ6x8 3 days ago
- Grand Old Tinfoil Hat Party -- really? Santorum shows crazies on CBS - http://t.co/RshdcU2T via @wordpressdotcom 4 days ago
- Remember Presidents Day 2012: Fly your flag today - http://t.co/7ZfjG916 via @wordpressdotcom 4 days ago
- Famous quote + history: Abraham Lincoln on job creators, 'labor is the superior of capital' http://t.co/pQNmkYuy via @wordpressdotcom 1 week ago
- Climbing "unclimbable" Canadian tors, women to match our mountains: Women at Work, Parts 1 and 2 http://t.co/bibNR7Hm via @wordpressdotcom 1 week ago
- RT @NCSE: The battle over global warming and public perception. An exclusive excerpt from "The Rough Guide to Climate Change". http://t. ... 1 week ago
- RT @AGWobserver: Carbon cycle model successfully reproduces CO2 changes through last glacial cycle (open access): http://t.co/u2q4PaNz 1 week ago
- RT @AGWobserver: Italian mountain trees are losing their June temperature signal from their rings: http://t.co/XluMY4iE 1 week ago
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