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Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson are two iconic Australian poets. Clancy of the Overflow is one of Paterson's more famous poems and know...

From Daniel J. Levitin's review of the book Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga in the August 22, 200...

A poem from For All the Lost and Lonely by Edward Dixon Garner. Reader He draws the curtain and turns out the light, Throws to the coals the...

I love Norman Rockwell's work but only just discovered this painting from early in his career: Crackers in Bed (1921). In our house the...

As far as I know, Norman Rockwell only wrote a single children's book (a pleasant little story Willie Was Different about a talented bir...

Pareto was an Italian economist and sociologist back at the turn of the last century and is most famous for the development of a technique t...

A wonderful essay by E.B. White of summertime, Once More to the Lake . Sample: I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his...

A pdf document by Dr. Todd R. Risley describing the results of the in-depth research he and his co-researcher, B. Hart, conducted in order t...

In this month's edition of The Atlantic, there is an article by Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, worrying about the impact Go...

From the National Center for Education Statistics - Real per student expenditures for public elementary and secondary education has increase...