You may have noticed that it has been awhile since my last blog.  Like most of you, I was busy dealing with the holidays.  Unlike most of you, I actually was an elf, but that’s another story. Today I share with you some of the useless bits of information that I’ve managed to gather over the last couple of months.  Feel free to share.

The peanut-head bug lives in South America and carries its stomach in its head, a fact Continue reading »

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Do you want the latest, most up-to-date, country information for your student’s report?  The best site I’ve found is the CIA’s World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ As of this posting, the site was last updated on August 7, 2008.  And, here’s the best part: Continue reading »

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Go to martinlutherking.org and you will find offensive and inflammatory material written by Klan sympathizers.  Countless students will no doubt discover this page quite innocently as they prepare to do school reports.  This web-page is a blatant example of why Google is not a replacement for libraries.  Students often think that whatever material they find on the Internet is factual information.  Sometimes adults also fall victim to this kind of thinking and fail to Continue reading »

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