In a large proportion of the surface of our planet, people are not supposed to go to work today. Not here, though. Eh, the good old days back home when my parents would go off for a ten-day vacation on May Day and leave my brother and me to rule the house and host parties...
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Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared in the first volume in the series We Survived published by the Jewish Historical Museum…
Technically, this is my 500th post at Scienceblogs, although I believe that includes a few I wrote but never published. So, 500 within a slight margin of error. Let us now celebrate this arbitrary milestone!!!!!
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September Scientiae is up at Lab Cat's place.
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As DrugMonkey reminds us, it's time for the year-in-review meme.
The rule: post the first sentence of the first post for each month.
January
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February
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