Saving the Children from Science

16 years ago

There's another of those scary science stories in today's NYTimes: Split Outcome in Texas Battle in Teaching Evolution. The real…

Stephen Colbert hears the Mermaids

16 years ago

What's the difference between a metaphor and lying? With a president who reads Derek Walcott and quotes June Jordan it's…

The frozen Hudson River

16 years ago

Last year I bought some of those ice grippers you can velcro onto your boots. This year I put them…

New Furniture

16 years ago

As if on cue, the moving truck with the new furniture or Kenyon House arrived  right as the Peacemakers Assembly…

“Stony the road we trod” The inauguration of President Barak Obama

16 years ago

PDS marked the inauguration at its Peacemakers Assembly on Tuesday.  Entitled "Stony the road we trod" the event began with…

PDS is a a part of it.

16 years ago

More about our assembly later but here is a screenshot from the NYTimes website. The middle school Photo Journalism class…

Nice photographs

16 years ago

There’s a rather nice set of photographs by Karl Rabe on- line at the Poughkeepsie Journal. This one shows the…

Winter Festival Delayed

16 years ago

The weather played havoc with the  Winter Festival and instead of an all-school event it was presented in segments. We  managed…

In the microscope

16 years ago

PDS has new science laboratories. Time for a poem from the Czech poet-scientist Miroslav Holub. In the Microscope Here too…

A Children’s Manifesto for Creativity

16 years ago

Question: What do you need to be creative and succeed in the future? Point number one: We want less formality…