Ironically, the uber-rationalist traits I admire in Sherlock make me hesitant to study his creator. Conan-Doyle was a gullible boob at best in many ways. Being taken in wholeheartedly by the Edwardian/Victorian spiritualist craze is really quite discouraging. I'd prefer to engage with Sherlock without any study of Conan Doyle. That said, I like Doyle as a writer and his other works like his proto-scifi "Lost World", one inspiration for Jurassic Park, are great. An author study would undoubtedly be interesting. I just wouldn't tie it too close to Sherlock Holmes.

DS10 earned Arrow of Light and is moving up to Boy Scouts in April. Figuring out timing on this was complicated. DS is in 4th grade and 1st year Webelos but with a very early Sept. birthday. He completed all of the reqs for Webelos and Arrow of Light this year and we were going to move him into BS in the fall at the latest. He had technically finished the AoL adventures and did the Bridging ceremony at Blue and Gold in late Feb. He met the 6mos since 10yo for AoL in early March. He finished doing the last AoL adventures(which he didn't require) with the Venture crew they've been working with last weekend and will do the cool ceremony with them shortly. He's been going to the BS meetings for the last several of months. He's going to officially become a Boy Scout after Pinewood Derby at the end of the month. He is so excited. In April, he'll do the combined Webelos/BS campout as a BS. There might be a couple of Webelos. Then in May, He'll do the council Camporee with the BS instead of the Cub Scout campout. Our troop runs their own 2 week summer camp and DS isn't going to both weeks, but depending on how the April and May campouts go we may send him for the second week.

The three most common sources of tanks are: 1) Restaurant supply 2) Medical (mixed with 02 for safety) 3) Drag Racing(typically mixed trace S02 to help find fuel line leaks) not at all suitable for recreational use due to rotten egg scent.

I have really splayed out toes from going barefoot/wearing sandals most of the time for 25+years and Altras have a nice wide toe box while having a normal heal width that works for me. https://www.altrarunning.com/

63 during the day 57 at night.

In 2007, I was taking some classes at University of Washington to consider a career change into bioinformatics and it was striking how much this could vary within the same university. For instance in Biology or Chem, you'd fail that assignment. In the humanities, you'd at most fail that assignment and might be able to talk your way out of it and resubmit for a penalty. However, in Computer Science or med school departments teaching undergrads like Biochem or Immunology, you'd fail the course. Those departments were very clear. They all had the same talk in the first lecture. They basically said look we know cheating is common, we know the deans office is complicit and doesn't *really* care, but we are crazy vindictive people. We have staff who will diligently follow your case. We'll show up at hearings. We will do everything possible to ensure you fail our course and kick you out of our major over the deans objection if needed. Not surprisingly cheating was shockingly common in the former courses and relatively rare in the later. PS: I have no idea how cheating is dealt with these days.

Minneapolis $56K Metro $71K Our actual neighborhood $31K with a breakdown of roughly 60% under $35K and then 10% each $35-50K, $50-75K, $75-100K, and $100K+ ETA: Actual number for Minneapolis looks like $56K, $71K was minneapolis-st paul metro.

Here's a post from Andrew Gelman, psychology's statistical bete noire, on where the 1980 MOPers, US IMO selection camp, ended up. http://andrewgelman.com/2015/03/17/1980-math-olympiad-program-now/ It is the same usual suspects of Wall St, dotcoms, and academia.

That sounds like a great plan. The rural job seemed like a bad fit for reasons I'll outline below... In DWs experience doctor salaries vary based on 1) region, 2) urban/rural, and 3) work load 1) Region. There is a huge variation in salaries regionally and not the way you expect. Places doctors want to live pay less. So the west coast and New England can end up paying less despite high COL. The south and sunbelt have average pay and moderate COL and the midwest has higher pay and moderate COL. If you look at AAMC salary surveys for academic jobs or Mercer/Medscape surveys for private practice these trends are clear. None of these surveys are free online but someone in your DHs residency program probably has access to them. DW did med school in NC and residency/fellowship in the PNW. We are in Minneapolis because she makes ~50% more than she would have in Seattle and the COL, especially housing, is way less. 2) Within any region rural jobs will often pay ~25-30% better. Because once again docs generally don't want to live in the sticks. This wasn't a possibility for us since the only rural-ish tertiary care hospital with DWs specialty would be Hershey, PA or Hanover, NH. But we know numerous folks in more rural areas who love the life style and higher pay. 3) Case load can directly translate to more money. Sometimes the senior partners or the employing hospital take all this as profit and those are jobs to avoid. But in a good practice longer hours should mean higher pay. So in your case, for the rural job to pay that well you would need a regional bonus plus rural bonus plus high workload. Thats too many things to change at once. However, you can change one or two of those factors and make better money without too many trade offs.

Guaranteed full rides have always been rare. 25+ years ago the only full ride at UNC was the Morehead, which requires school nomination of a single kid and the offered like ~12 scholarships total. State had no university wide full ride scholarship. Since then State has added the Park and UVA has added the Jefferson. So there are more scholarships out there now but they are insanely competetive and by no means guaranteed. Here in MN, as a NMF you *might* get full tuition or a bit more. When we lived in WA, UW was stingy and didn't really have any meaningful scholarships. States that have guaranteed scholarships are more the exception than the rule.

You could go for a cyberpunk theme with Ada LoveRace. or do something with a Tank Girl theme.

That advice looks dangerously old-fashioned to me... Back in the day, I applied to Duke, Wake, UNC, and State... but UNC and State were both rolling admissions schools then... very much unlike now. So, if you didn't get in you'd know in the Fall and could still apply at branch campuses... or if you got in could aim higher with a sure back up plan. These days I think 3 is way too few. In NC, assuming I could afford my EFC, with a normal bright kid, I'd apply to a branch campus like App and/or ECU as a safety, UNC and State as a fit, and one or two private schools with the possibility of aid. So 4-6 schools as a minimum in most cases.

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You often don't need the books in class but more to get work done between classes. In that case, it is worth checking if professors have the textbooks on reserve at the library. Then you can check them out for an hour when you need them and leave your copy at home.

Everything we listen to here is either folk, post-punk, or alt-country. DS10 *really* likes classic Midnight Oil. New Model Army's "The Charge" is completely classical right... DS would also be *really* into some Scandinavian death metal symphonic stuff but we haven't gone there yet.

Physics is sort of a weird case. Walter Lewin's very good OCW scholar courses and videos which covered all of intro physics got pulled after he was removed from faculty for alleged sexual harassment of online students. If you look at either the HS page or https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/ocw-scholar/ you will find full intro courses for the other sciences and some social sciences.

Have you looked at any of the Project Lead the Way textbooks. That's what local schools use around here.

In fairness to this kid, I know ex-pats who find also found the funding contrast "strange" . Usually there is a degree of incredulity towards both systems. I have a couple of friends who went to Oxbridge schools and the did humanities grad school in the US. They definitely describe it as an odd situation that in England you could go to undergrad basically for free(in those days) but grad school funding was very hard to get whereas in the US undergrad cost an arm and a leg but academic PhDs were generally funded even at state schools.

Unless something has changed recently, DC residents don't get in-state tuition everywhere. What they get is a DCTAG grant of $10K to *help* offset the difference between in-state and OOS tuition. That probably isn't going to cover the difference most places. A few samples in-state:OOS UNC 9Kvs33K Michigan 14Kvs45K Cal 13Kvs40K. So, I can easily believe that private schools with better aid are competitive with publics with poor aid and a 10K discount off much higher OOS tuition. :(

I would say societal expectations would be the antagonist... in opposition to Mr Popper's dreams. There is one "Hey, you can't do that bub" moment after another until Mr Popper overcomes them all and sails off into the sunset.

If I walk around our block; There are 3 front yard gardens, 1 garden in the curb strip, 3 front yard rain gardens/butteryfly gardens/ restored prairie, and one neighbor who grows 6 foot high sun flowers in the curb strip.

You could do higher level stuff meant to be read aloud and let the youngers take what they can from it. Poetry is fun that way... maybe Heaney's "Beowulf" or Fagle's, or your favorite translators, versions of Homer. We've also enjoyed longer works like Scott's "Lady of the Lake" and Longfellow's longer poems as read alouds.

Neil Stephenson riffs on this idea in "Anathem". Interestingly, other common examples like hygge and schadenfreude also refer to slippery primitive emotional states. ETA: Fey might be another good one... I could see translations into European languages, but the whole thing is so culture bound wider translations are likely to have different connotations.

At least for my copy of volume 1(k-5) the booklist is all nonfiction... so not novels which is what the OP asked for.

This article from UCSF is a little light but the second half summarizes and has references to 45 studies on the ketogenic diet and cancer. http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/patient-care/self-care-resources/cancer-and-nutrition/frequently-asked-questions/low-carbohydrate-diet/