“Mr Wilczek is awesome!”
Frank came home from MIT the other day puzzled. All of a sudden he’s getting many more requests for autographs than usual, and he couldn’t figure out why. This morning, GoogleAlert probably told me...
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Making fiends and carving pony-tailed pumpkins
Frank decided to carve a Vendetta pumpkin Originally uploaded by betsythedevine. Frank, a big fan of Making Fiends, modeled his pumpkin on the Vendetta Tshirt that he’s posing with here. For...
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Do you want your two-year-old forced to wear Manolos?
Paid for by Ohio Republican Party Originally uploaded by J. Star. Another GOP last-minute mailer, this one in Ohio. The target of all these seems to be what Bill Clinton calls “the diving-board...
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The tiny pudu deer has a big fanblogger
Lots of photos, lots of fun prose, enjoy! …the pudu (actual species name: pudu pudu) is the world’s tiniest deer, a two-foot-tall little ungulate with big wide eyes and a body that resembles a Vienna...
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View of a Foucault pendulum..
View of a Foucault pendulum Originally uploaded by betsythedevine. Ahhh! The Centro Estudio Cientificos is well and truly launched, with a wonderful party, some short but poetic speeches, and the...
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A TV studio is an adventure itself…
Jim Clash of The Adventurers" with Frank and Betsy Originally uploaded by betsythedevine. …and even more so when hanging out with Jim Clash for his Forbes TV show The Adventurers. Another adventurer...
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Wow–this morning I’m Polish! Who knew?
Well, maybe not totally Polish, but now I’m *in* Polish, and so is Frank (who was half-Polish to start with) in a new translation of our book Longing for the Harmonies. More on my newly discovered...
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My role model? The exaggerating Elizabeth Jordan
I was born just a couple of months before she died. My godmother and namesake, Elizabeth Jordan–a tiny woman, well-known in her long-ago day for her writing and editing, for her ostrich-plume hats and...
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Ronni wants your stories and so do I!
My great-grandfather is smiling here because Ronni Bennett posted his story today over at her Elder Storytelling Place. Well, maybe he’s smiling also partly because he was a sweet good-humored man,...
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Baby delivered this morning by UPS!
Baby delivered this morning by UPS Originally uploaded by betsythedevine On our doorstep before 8 a.m. this morning — Frank’s brand new book, The Lightness of Being! I decided that our family cradle,...
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