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- James Madison, “go-to” guy
- Intelligent Design: A pig that does not fly
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- August 20 is President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday
- Happy birthday, President Bill Clinton!
- Science lessons applied for safety, in your car. Do you drink water?
- August 2017: When should you fly your U.S. flag?
- 300 Spartans, led by Leonidas died August 11, 480 B.C.
- Carl Sagan’s “foreboding” of a dumb America; too late to stop it?
- 53 years ago: August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- August 6, 1945: Remembering Hiroshima in 2017
- August 4, 1944: Germans capture Anne Frank and her family
- History and art: Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights, Vietnam, Stephen Stucky, the Dallas Symphony, and “August 4, 1964”
- 2nd Amendment? Don’t forget Article III, section 3; treason still a crime
- Colorado Day 2017! Coloradans fly the flag for statehood
- July 27, 2017: National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, go ahead, fly your flag
- Annals of DDT: Eagles return to Buffalo, New York, in a big way
- July 26, 2017, New York flies U.S. flags for statehood
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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)
- Who said it? 'Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees'
- 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"
- When do we fly the U.S. flag? Flag fly dates
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Who said that?
- News flash: Texas has a second natural lake!
- Misquote of the moment: Magellan didn't say it, but it's still brilliant, "shadow on the Moon"
- How to fold state flags
- John Wooden's favorite poems: They ask me why I teach
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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
- Basil on the Wall (formerly Where's the teacher?)
- 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
- 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 - Law
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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