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So get to work 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
With Labor Day next week, the New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell writes about sports, though it may apply far beyond sports, beginning with an American Scientist paper from Herbert Simon and William Chase:...
Education about severe weather 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Mike Smith passes on Playing with Data‘s interesting map, which shows … … the mean annual number of NOAA Storm Prediction Center Slight/Moderate/High Risks during the “Traditional School Year” as the...
Presty the DJ for Aug. 27 27 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
We begin with an interesting anniversary: Today in 1965, the Beatles used the final day of their five-day break from their U.S. tour to attend a recording session for the Byrds and to meet Elvis Presl...
More Obama successes 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
This list of Obama administration economic failures begins with the Weekly Standard: President Obama likes to talk about income inequality, but what matters far more is the actual income of the typic...
Hurricane Albert III 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Failed presidential candidate Al Gore is opening his mouth again, and when that happens, the truth always loses, as James Taranto points out: Yesterday we noted that in an interview with the Washingt...
Presty the DJ for Aug. 26 26 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Today in 1967, Jimi Hendrix released “Purple Haze”: Three years later, Hendrix made his last concert appearance in Great Britain at the Isle of Wight Festival, which also featured, for your £3 ticket...
Presty the DJ for Aug. 25 25 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Does anyone find it a bit creepy that the number one song in Great Britain today in 1957 is about Paul Anka’s brother’s babysitter? Three years later, the number one single across the sea required no...
Presty the DJ for Aug. 24 24 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Today in 1963, Little Stevie Wonder became the first artist to have the number one pop single and album and to lead the R&B charts with his “Twelve-Year-Old Genius”: Today in 1974 the rock charts wer...
Welcome to Ansel Adams’ nightmare 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
As you know, school starts the day after Labor Day. (If you like or hate that, click here and scroll down a bit to vote in the poll.) On Monday, I went to a school meeting at which Michael picked up ...
’Tis the season 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Though school in Wisconsin doesn’t start for 10 more days, the high school football season starts tonight. I will be on the air in Platteville tonight announcing that rarest of things, a big early-se...
