I shouldn’t be surprised to find that there’s a forum to discuss Google and its competitors, and today discovered Search Engine Roundtable. One of its members here discusses the following Google quirk, initially reported in a Google forum: I just typed in “slavery and fatherhood” in Google, looking for a book of that name. On …
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The Second-Best Parenting Blog I Know
Just want to point readers in the direction of Accidents Will Happen, a mommyblog by a Midwestern grad student who is witty and wry, and won me over for life by using the phrase “cultural zoning” and quoting Milton Waddams in the same headline. (Also, her son turns out to have been born exactly the …
One More Thing to Worry About
Mumps is back, in New York City and its environs. About 400 kids have got sick, most of them from an Orthodox Jewish summer camp where one child arrived bearing the virus. It appears that the large majority of infected children had been vaccinated. How can that be, you say? Because the mumps vaccine (according …
Congratulations! Now, When Are You Coming Back to Work?
I’ve been meaning to post about this news for the past few days: In Great Britain, there’s a push to require that employers offer mandatory paternity leave. New dads will be able to take three months off, with much of their salary guaranteed. Do I even need to say that I’m in favor of this? …
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