2025: Science in Texas and Montana

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Tuesday December 09, 2025 · 7:13 PM PST

2025/12/09 · 19:13

This week, we’re helping two classrooms get materials they need for a variety of science investigations: a Texas first grade, and a Montana sixth grade in the Blackfeet Nation. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science, math, and literacy projects for public schools in low-income neighborhoods. As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.

Inoculation Project lower banner with Neil Degrasse Tyson quote, with caption.

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Tuesday December 09, 2025 · 7:13 PM PST

2025/12/09 · 19:13

Hello, my sanity-starved friends!

ICE has become so bad it's threatening the reputation of actual ice. I'm starting to order my drinks with temperature-reduced geometric H20 blocks.
— Dave Blazek (@loosepartsguy.bsky.social) 2025-10-14T15:31:21.983Z

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Friday December 05, 2025 · 12:00 AM PST

2025/12/05 · 00:00

Hello again, “gem” lovers! Here is today’s collection.

We wanted to understand why so many young liberal New Yorkers love Zohran Mamdani. So we talked to three reactionary Free Press contributors at a yoga studio in Los Angeles.
— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) 2025-12-03T16:36:11.348Z

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Tuesday December 02, 2025 · 11:00 PM PST

2025/12/02 · 23:00

Hello! I’m among those filling in for the intrepid Oz Perspective while he’s indisposed. Here we go!

I love this one from Tim Thavirat (Manchild Manor)
— Eric McKay (@ericmckay5.bsky.social) 2025-11-22T18:50:24.255Z

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Tuesday December 02, 2025 · 5:30 PM PST

2025/12/02 · 17:30

Exhibit of a historic kitchen at the Polson Flathead Lake Museum, a museum of the history of Polson, Montana. With a population of a little more than 5,000, Polson is located on the Flathead Indian Reservation at the south end of Flathead Lake. The city was incorporated in 1910 and named for David Polson, one of the pioneer non-Indian ranchers.

^{Harald Sohlberg: Autumn Landscape (1910)}

Good evening, Kibitzers!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I was unusually organized (maybe because I’m retired now and I don’t have to cram every single thing into a few “days off”), so now I have a ton of food made from Thanksgiving leftovers, including a giant pot of soup made from holiday-bones chicken stock, and I will not have to do anything but reheat for a while.

You probably saw that reggae legend Jimmy Cliff had passed away last week at 81; there was at least one diary at the time with lots of his songs, and of course the gold standard, Black Music Sunday, covered his life and work this weekend (including embedding the entire film The Harder They Come along with, separately, the soundtrack album). If you’re a Jimmy Cliff fan and you didn’t see all that music go past, by all means circle back to this link.

So, I’d like to recognize Jimmy Cliff, but without just posting the same videos yet another time. Luckily, it turns out that more people than I had realized have covered the numerous songs he wrote and co-wrote. So this is a diary of Jimmy Cliff covers by other artists. I was assisted by a site called SecondHandSongs, that lists all a songwriter’s songs with who has covered them.

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Sunday November 30, 2025 · 7:00 AM PST

2025/11/30 · 07:00

Banner for The Inoculation Project series, with added caption "Solid science education is the best inoculation against ignorance."

This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured projects.

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