By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This is a story about words and a woman who understood the power of words properly used to motivate adolescents, some of the toughest customers on earth. It is the story of Holly Hickler, proud to be a teacher, exhilarated by the challenges of her profession, a model …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Fellow citizens of the Internet, one of our Founding Fathers, Paul Baran, has died, at 84, in Palo Alto, California. Pray, take a moment from your busy day online and have a kind thought for a man, a brilliant man, so far in advance of his times that he was written …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Ever hear of Dr. Harry Coover? Probably not. Know what cyanoacrylates are? Probably not. Yet both of them have a place in your life — under the commercial name Super Glue. You’ve surely heard of — and used — that! And now you’re about to learn the story about a smart …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant In 1984 a streaked-blond, peanut-butter-and-jelly-making mom made history… before she became an object lesson in unwittingly hurting the candidate and political party she was there to help. Her name was Geraldine A. Ferraro, and now she is dead at 75, March 26, 2011 of complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer …