I’ve been reading Games and Songs of American Children by William Wells Newell, a Dover reprint of the 1903 edition. I find it fascinating how games are transmitted from generation to generation, games like “Tag”, “Button button who has the button?”, … [Continue reading] about Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
The Most Dangerous Idea
The Edge Foundation’s 2006 question is framed as: WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian … [Continue reading] about The Most Dangerous Idea