http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/10/flying.lawn.chair.ap/index.html
Yet another homeschooler won the National Spelling Bee this year. Which proves that if you get to choose how to spend your time studying, you too might just win $35,000 cash, a $5,000 scholarship, a $2,500 savings bond and a set of encyclopedias. I never was good at spelling. Fortunately, about the same time I needed to start writing intelligible papers, the blessed SpellCheck arrived on our home computers. (For instance, I just guessed at “intelligible” back there, and Firefox told me how to spell it. Firefox! A web browser! It’s still having conniptions–again, pure guess–about “homeschooler,” which I consciously…
Here’s a fascinating article about how we die and what might be done to reverse death in the near future.