A fossil found in Argentina that is more than 200 million years old suggests the most giant of dinosaurs existed earlier than paleontologists believed.
NYT
When dinosaurs were awful big
I bet they couldn't dance a jig;
at least I bet they couldn't leap.
but on their fat legs had to creep.
If dinosaurs today did plague
our world, they'd go to Jenny Craig.
Handwriting has lost its importance in society. Some schools don’t even teach cursive anymore. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that writing by hand can help you process and remember information far better than typing. A 2014 study found that when students typed notes, they tended to just transcribe whatever the professor said, while those working with pen and paper were mentally summarizing and paraphrasing, which led to better test scores.
WSJ
My handwriting is so unique
it made my grade school teachers squeak.
In block or cursive, twas the same;
it looked like chickens walking lame.
When I take notes today, I fear
to no one else will they be clear.
I'll sell it to the FBI
as code to baffle any spy.
“I felt like a prisoner,” said Diogo De Olivera Filho, a 9-year-old from Brazil who spent five weeks at an ICE shelter in Chicago, including three weeks in isolation after getting chickenpox. When he got lonely and left his quarantined room to see other kids, he said the shelter put up a gate to keep him in. “I felt like a dog,” he said.
Washington Post
Happy are the children who
live in Uncle Sammy's zoo.
They are fed on crusts of bread;
when they cry are sent to bed.
Their folks broke our nation's laws --
we don't play no Santa Claus.
So they're traumatized a bit;
least they're learning how to knit,
cuz we need a brand new crop
working in the old sweatshop.
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