Today is Lock Up Your Gun Day

Not really. But it is World Suicide Prevention Day. And, one way YOU can help prevent suicides is by keeping your gun locked up, separate from the ammo, and keeping the ammo locked up as well. Why? Here’s why: Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens and young adults and the 10th…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/10/today-is-lock-up-your-gun-day/

OpenOffice May Close The Door

The history of what we call “OpenOffice” is complex and confusing. It started as a project of Sun corporation, to develop an office suit that was not Microsoft Office, to use internally. Later, a version became more generally available known as Star Office, but also, a version called “OpenOffice” soon became available as well. The…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/10/openoffice-may-close-the-door/

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited Review

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited is a subscription service that covers children. I normally avoid subscription services of any kind. But, I have a six year old, and suddenly it made sense. Huxley is very tech savvy for a newly minted first grader. Last night I was reviewing a new tablet that had multiple operating systems on…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/07/amazon-freetime-unlimited-review/

Phyllis Schlafly Is Dead

You may have heard the name, you may have an idea of who she was. This recent item on the Rachel Maddow show (long, but worth every second) puts her in context. Watch it: Schlafly was one of the key architects of the modern right wing movement. She is one of the worst people in…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/05/phyllis-schlafly-is-dead/

Happy Labor Day. Who’s Not Doing Their Job?

Laborers generally do their jobs, because if they don’t they get fired. But there are entire professions where people are not doing their jobs and the rest of us suffer. Jacob Wetterling was abducted and murdered two and a half decades ago. The guy who did it was known to the cops then, and he…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/05/happy-labor-day-whos-not-doing-their-job/

The Guts Of Mythbusters All Over!

What I mean by that is that the real guts of the defunct TV show Mythbusters, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara, are all over this new thing they are doing for Netflix! Apparently this is a thing: Network TV shows almost all die a certain kind of death. They get more and more…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/03/the-guts-of-mythbusters-all-over/

Electronics for Kids: Great new book for kids and their adults

The simplest project in the new book Electronics for Kids: Play with Simple Circuits and Experiment with Electricity! by Øyvind Nydal Dahl is the one where you lean a small light bulb against the two terminals of a nine volt battery in order to make the light bulb turn on. The most complicated projects are…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2016/09/03/electronics-for-kids-great-new-book-for-kids-and-their-adults/