Recent content by Louanne Learning

Beer

If I recall correctly, your wife hasn't been gone that long. Your mourning is fresh. You haven't found your "new normal" yet. Give yourself time to grieve, and when you are ready to take on new experiences, and adopt a new schedule, you will know. I am a retired teacher, and a widow, with a...

Oktoberfest

Fair

Peeping Tom

Monster

That made me wonder whether the accent marks are ignored or not in French Scrabble, and it seems they are, but in Francophone Scrabble the letter distribution is different to account for the relative distribution of the letters in the language.

I will have mine up by early next week, and then you're up next in the rotation! :)

From the PISA results: Globally, in mathematics, boys outperformed girls in 40 countries and economies, girls outperformed boys in another 17 countries or economies, and no significant difference was found in the remaining 24. In reading, girls, on average, scored above boys in all but two...

Shout out to Canada, who ranks up at the top of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ranking. The results are based on evaluating 15-year-old students from 81 countries in the areas of math and science.

He won again.

What a good question! I guess it includes anyone/anything with sentience, human or otherwise believable?

Talking about the imperfections of the human mind... I just now finished reading an article from Nautilus entitled Flat Earthers on a Cruise - a fascinating read. It ends with this sentence (referencing Primo Levi): Distrust all the prophets that manipulate the imperfections of the human mind.

But we have to write them as if they were.