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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Get in the Encyclopedia

A.J. Jacobs read the 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, A to Z. He then wrote a book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It's a good book: filled with facts and funny comments. It&

Going to Europe?

If so, you may want to check this: > To experience Old Europe, there's no better way than by eating, sleeping, walking, studying, and praying in the houses of monks and nuns. Europe's Monastery and Convent Guesthouses: A Pilgrim's Travel Guide by Kevin J.

Odd Consumer News

This place has devised an alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell and sizzle of cooking bacon. Link [http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php] . > Once the alarm goes off, it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked it such

More Fun with Female Workers . . .

. . . in traditionally-male jobs: > A failed romantic relationship between two pistol-packing guards led to some tense moments inside an armored car at a Slidell bank. > Loomis, Fargo & Co. employee Quiana Anderson, 27, told authorities she was driving to Hancock Bank at 1411 Gause Blvd. to make

Dissin' Sex?

We hear the measure didn't run into very stiff competition: > Impotence drugs such as Viagra would not be covered by Medicaid and Medicare, the government health programs for the poor and the aged, under new prohibitions approved by the House on Friday. > By a 285-121

While You're At It . . .

. . . make them all valedictorians, too: > Today, San Ysidro Middle School will recognize 516 eighth-graders in a ceremony to promote them to high school, regardless of whether they passed middle school. > More than a fourth of them did not. > In today's ceremony, 143 students who

The Oneness of Vice

> A woman shoplifter in Germany abandoned her three-month-old baby after being caught stealing from a supermarket, authorities said Friday. > "When the security man told the woman to enter his office so he could check her identification, the perpetrator took off, leaving behind the baby and

Abelard and Heloise

The Claremont Institute has published a nice piece about the greatest love affair of the Middle Ages. Link [http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2005/bramwell.html]. Excerpt: > Abelard and Heloise inhabited a world that, like our own, was changing rapidly. They saw themselves and their times as modern.

Growing Crack?

Interesting concept: high rise farming complexes in the middle of urban areas. Link [http://www.verticalfarm.com/]. Excerpt: > The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new

Good

> The Chicago Police Department began posting on its Web site on Tuesday photographs, names and partial addresses of people who were arrested on charges of soliciting prostitutes in a move intended to embarrass offenders and deter people from committing such crimes. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/