Thomas Ramey Watson

creativity

Public Asked to Sew Pouches for Injured Kangaroos in Australia

A public appeal for people to make mittens for burned koalas worked so well that an animal group is asking for pouches for rescued kangaroos and wallabies. The International Fund for Animal Welfare says it has plenty of koala mittens, thanks to the public, but joeys, or young marsupial animals, like Gabby the Western Grey

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50 Cheap (Maybe Free) Dates You’ll Thoroughly Enjoy

Couples who spend regular time together on “date nights” are happier and less likely to divorce says a University of Virginia marriage study. In fact, the study recommends couples make date night a habit. But with dinner and a movie easily hitting a C-note (don’t forget that babysitter) many couples forego this simple pleasure. Never

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From: The Liberal Arts and the Fate of American Democracy By Scott Samuelson

Twentieth-century America gave birth to a world-class public educational system that, for all its flaws, gave an astonishing number of people a distinctive liberal education. Unfortunately, for a few decades now we’ve been walking with misplaced confidence toward inequality and empire once again. But we should refuse to “sit down fatalistically before the croaker’s picture.”

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