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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
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- Mt. Timpanogos and the U.S. flag
- How to tell testing is a monster in your local schools: “Test Menu”
- Hold teachers accountable? I don’t think that word means what you think it means
- ObamaCare in 90 seconds – from nurses, so you know it’s right
- Animated Maurice Sendak: How do you keep from being eaten and mauled by a monster?
- June 15: Magna Carta anniversary, #798
- Flag Day poster from 1917, remembered 96 years later
- Flag Day 2013 – Fly your flag today!
- Quote of the moment: Rachel Carson, on why her nature writing sounds so much like poetry
- Do Nothing GOP Congress
- Time lapse at Everest – Elia Saikaly
- Exxon-Mobil’s Rex Tillerson urges Scouts to get on with the “main thing,” Scouting, after historic membership policy vote
- Holes in the wall, Glen Canyon NRA
- Flag day June 14? Heck! Fly it all week!
- Seen on the street: Where do gays come from?
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- Mt. Timpanogos and the U.S. flag (Perfect patriotic photo from Central Utah) - wp.me/p1dDS-6KxSplashed: 1 hour ago
- How to tell testing is a monster in your local schools: "Test Menu" wp.me/p1dDS-6KK via @wordpressdotcomSplashed: 5 hours ago
- RT @JenGranholm: On 30th anniversary of Sally Ride's Historic Journey, NASA selects a record number of female astronaut candidates http://t…Splashed: 5 hours ago
- RT @JenGranholm: You cannot be what you cannot see. Thank you to Sally Ride for inspiring this new generation of female astronauts. http://…Splashed: 5 hours ago
- RT @JenGranholm: This just in: added benefit of immigration reform -- it reduces the federal deficit by $175 B, per CBO, b/c more ppl in la…Splashed: 5 hours ago
- @GregAbbott_TX Sylvan Learning Centers are not public schools, unaffected by CSCOPE -- why were they quoted in the story?Splashed: 5 hours ago
- @GregAbbott_TX Can you name a teacher who celebrated the end of CSCOPE's lesson planning aids? There may be some, but I can't find 'em.Splashed: 5 hours ago
- RT @TexasTribune: End of CSCOPE means hardship for some Texas schools, @MorganSmith reports trib.it/ZzdDJi #txlege #txedSplashed: 5 hours ago
- RT @Region6CSCOPE: Come Catch the CSCOPE Wave with us at Region 6 on June 26 & 27. Register at this link: goo.gl/wIugzSplashed: 5 hours 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!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"
- What's in a name? A Texas town by any other name . . .
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Who said that?
- Starbucks controversy: The Way I See It #289 (global warming)
- True story: Yellow Rose of Texas, and the Battle of San Jacinto
- "Do you believe in me?" 5th grader Dalton Sherman inspires Dallas teachers
- Newsmax turns to medical quackery?
- ObamaCare: Making stuff up to complain about
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Tub construction (pages)
Down the drain (archives by month since 2006)
Administrivia
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
- Conversable Economist
- 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
- Alltop Education
- Are we doing anything today?
- Around the Corner v.2 – McGuhlin.net
- blyberg.net
- Building the Teaching Profession
- Class Struggle
- Connecting Through Conversations
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- Curricublog, Tony’s
- D-Ed Reckoning
- Daily Hurricane
- Dallas Morning News blog on DISD
- Dana Goldstein, Lady Wonk
- Diane Ravitch's Blog
- 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)
- Eye on Education
- 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
- Golden Oldie Ads
- 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
- Northwest History
- 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
- Beagle Project
- 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
- Bill Chance – This Is Not Going to Turn Out Well
- Blog of the Airtightnoodle
- Bluedaze
- Brains and Eggs
- Burka Blog
- 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
- Pegasus News
- 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
- StandDown Texas Project
- 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
Faucets of Information, miscellaneous
- Cagle’s Political Cartoons Index
- Coyote Crossing, formerly Creek Running North
- Dave Does the Blog
- Digital Cuttlefish
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- Dying Man’s Daily Journal
- En Tequila es Verdad
- First Morning, The
- Gurney Journey
- Harris Polls
- Motivated Grammar
- On the Mark: Social Commentary from a Reflective Perspective
- Pseudo-Polymath
- Talking Points Memo
- WIST
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