Today's Caldecott book: Nonny Hogrogian's One Fine Day. Which is about a fox! I like books about foxes.

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On a completely different note, lycoris linked me to this glorious video of Jurassic Park, High Heels Edition, which has everyone in the original Jurassic Park trilogy click-click-clicking around in heels. EVERYONE. Just look at those little tiny ( Read more... )

This week's Caldecott winner is May I Bring a Friend?, but before we discuss it, a pause for Caldecott related business. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is having an exhibit called Make Way for Ducklings: The Art of Robert McCloskey, an artist who won the Caldecott twice (most notably for, well, Make Way for DucklingsIf only I had a teleportation ( Read more... )

This both is and is not a War and Peace post. I’ve gotten to the part of the book where Natasha falls ill following her broken engagement, and I was feeling a bit smug, as modern people are wont to do when confronted with the medical incompetence of the past, while Tolstoy snipes about the fact that doctors are useful purely for their placebo ( Read more... )

One of my friends linked this article on Facebook, and I thought it was fascinating: The War on Stupid People, about the downside of meritocracy - I almost want to put the word meritocracy into scare quotes, given that one of the article's main points is that meritocracies define merit as intelligence and intelligence as academic success, which is ( Read more... )

One of my Facebook friends linked to this poem about old age: Old Age Requires the Greatest Courage.

It's awfully good.

Because I just can't resist lists of forgotten women's novels: Eight Classic Female Bildungsromane You Should Know About If You Don't Already.

I daresay that most everyone who is interested in this sort of thing has probably heard of Louisa May Alcott's Moods (this list finally cracked me into going to Amazon and getting a Kindle copy; it's free ( Read more... )

I just had to post this link: 16 Amazing Pieces to Celebrate World Origami Day. The fox! The unicorn! The black rider! The dragon!

Take a Virtual Reality Tour of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

I want this.

Hopefully they'll put it online eventually.

Well, this is cool: Pyrografie, the art of drawing portraits with sparklers.

Looking for something adorable to brighten up your evening? How about A Tiny Valentine's Date for Tiny Hamsters?