Susan Wise Bauer [Official] - Best Selling Author, Historian, & Publis...

Apparently The Story of Western Science offers readers an unusually good chance of winning at their local pub’s Trivia Night. Or, you know, Jeopardy.
” This easy-to-read, incredibly well-researched history tells the tale of Western philosophy and medicine from the days of Hippocrates to the rise of Earth science in the 1970s all the way to the present day. Anyone who’s enchanted by the nature of progress...

Yesterday, I didn’t know what to say, so I said nothing.
Today I do.
This country has got to change its mind about guns.

I’m spending most of today on planes, heading to Seattle and then SoCal for book business. Which puts me in the mood for something random.
When I was young, my mother used to take us to the library to check out huge amounts of books, every week. She had rules. We had to choose one nonfiction book, one play, one book of poetry, and one novel. The rest could be anything we wanted....

When I was a home schooled student, thirty years ago, no one really argued about what it “meant” to be a home educator: You either were, or you weren’t.
This is no longer the case, of course. Now, arguments flourish about whether you’re “really” a home educator if you make use of your local public school, or take online classes, or put together some sort of hybrid program to meet your child’s particular...