Archive for February, 2014
I went to the most poorly designed high school in the history of humankind. I think it was considered “state of the art” by some but, from the perspective of a student, it was just dumb. North Kingstown High School (NKHS) was built as a campus. From what I’d heard, it was modeled after a […]
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Tags: NK, NKHS, North Kingstown
Rethinking My Love of Baseball
I can date my love of baseball to spring training 1968. That’s 46 seasons ago. As a Red Sox fan, the recent years have been good to me. I don’t want to talk about 1972, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1990, or 2003, thank you. I feel great sentimentality towards the game. Like most kids, my Dad […]
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Tags: Baseball, Fenway, Major League Baseball, Red Sox, spring training
It’s All About Scale
A single speck of dust is half way in size between an atom and the Earth.
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Tags: dust, neutrino, quark, subatomic particle
Death of the Hardy New Englander
By reputation, New Englanders are made of tough stock. We bear the worst Winter can throw at us with barely a second thought. Snow? Give us all you have and then pile on some more. We’re New Englanders and we know what to do when it snows. We know how to drive and, most importantly, […]
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Tags: Blizzard, Blizzard of '78, New England, Snow
