NASA Breaking News

I am ever fond of NASA’s open information policy with the public and press. Every new discovery is posted quite clearly on their website. Editors “dumbing-down” all the technical talk into layman’s terms allow the public to easily understand the going-ons of our country’s space program.

Yahoo! News: Political News

I was very disappointed with this feed. While it gathered an excess of information as USAToday’s feed had, I found myself staring at an endless stream of statistics that my self-diagnosed ADD couldn’t concentrate on for more than a few fleeting minutes.

USAToday.com News - Top Stories

This feed, while extremely informative, left me somewhat overwhelmed. Reading a couple times a week, some days I would find my Google Reader filled with over a hundred stories from this single feed. Engulfing myself in the plethora of information at my finger tips, I did my best to skim the titles and weed out the less interesting/important stories.

Alice in Wonderland

Like Alice found herself wandering around in the confusing world of Wonderland, after reading the summer assignment for AP English class, I was whisked away into the wonderland of the blog world. I found myself intrigued by some people’s thoughts and ideas but also repelled by others. Page after page, blog after blog, I delved into the minds of more experienced bloggers and reveled in their opinions.

Spirits and Demons: Decreasing the Drinking Age

Throughout history, there have been many attempts at “cleansing” the country of the “evils” of alcohol, but has anyone noticed that the cure is worse than the disease?  Drunk-driving stories haunt the papers.  Alcoholics tear families apart.  College students flock to dorms and secret meeting places to binge on illegal drinks, many of them dying from over intoxication.  These problems, although still present, were not as prominent as they were before the legal drinking age was raised to age twenty-one.  Decreasing the drinking age lowers alcohol abuse.  Not all spirits are demons.