Countdown’s Bushed!: You Gotta Be Kidding Me Edition: Next is an update on the Orwellian No Child Left Behind program, which has resulted in graduation ratios going down and schools hurting for funding country-wide. Turns out that the cornerstone of the program, Reading First, a program emphasizing literacy administered by the president’s brother, Neil Bush, has not proven to be effective whatsoever. So the reality is that NCLB is actually leaving children behind in favor of lining the pocket of the Bush family.

'Turn on, tune in, drop out' 1943 Discovered the first acid trip! I saw lights and beautiful colors that lasted for hours! Albert Hofmann discovered the substance while working for a pharmaceutical company in 1938. Hofmann was also the first scientist to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms, in 1958.

Virus writers selling software with a detailed licensing agreement. The CHUTZBA is hilarious.

Discovery Channel Canada is scouting for new, sexy, cool science or technology that's in the works -- not products already available - and (sorry folks) not internet-based.

fonolo is a new way to call large companies.Use Deep Dialing to avoid dealing with phone menus.Use Intelligent call history to track your calls like never before.

One commentator calls today's decision 'Another bad day for the RIAA.'"

After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters now says she had a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant."

Amgen and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals informed healthcare professionals of revisions to prescribing information for Enbrel.FDA MedWatch- Enbrel (etanercept)-Prescribing Information Revised To Include A Boxed Warning Regarding The Risk Of Infection, Including Tuberculosis

Generation YES is proud to announce TechYES Science, a new technology literacy certification program based on science projects for students in grades 6-9. TechYES Science Student Technology Literacy Certification Through Science Projects Meet STEM And NCL also Generation YES.

Dresscode Etiquette for Proms and Weddings. Learn why a cummerbund is worn the pleats up.

From Stolen Life starring Betty Davis Apple Jack - the natives call it Jersey Lightning - Heritage Tradition. Pennsylvania Taxes

20 Billion in Federal Investment in School Infrastructure Would Provide Major Boost to Education, Economy ‘Sick,’ Crumbling Schools and Lack of Modernization Hurt U.S. Students’ Global Competitiveness, Study Suggests

Music Quotes From the Educational CyberPlayGround

No limits. That's the Net mantra. Enable free transferability. Just hope that you reach a ton of people, just hope that your project lives on.

Bob Lefsetz

Friday night is singles' night at the city's main library.