Quoted: It all began because, about 60 years ago, Bernice Gordon found television a bore, except for Milton Berle.

So instead of watching a box with black-and-white pictures, she started creating her own black-and-white boxes: crossword puzzles.

More than a thousand published puzzles later, Gordon, age 95, is still at it, and the honors keep rolling in.

Quoted: A team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease regained long-term memories and the ability to learn.

Quoted: n a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally acknowledged to exist just five years ago, turns out to have a variety of unique, and potentially very useful, characteristics -- ones several MIT researchers are actively trying to better understand and turn into real-world applications.

Great review of DreamBox Learning K-2 Math from ABC News

Quoted: Math game analyzes kids' responses and dynamically adjusts to their level.

Zach said: The first four or five are good. Then it all goes to crap.

I agree. Very few good ones in the bottom of this "top 25"

Pogue's review of the BlackBerry Storm (touch screen BlackBerry). He hates it and I think he has good reasons.

Quoted: The first sign of trouble for the new BlackBerry Storm was the concept: a touchscreen BlackBerry.

Quoted: John McCain’s strategy, in this final stretch, is based on the belief that Republicans can still pursue plutocratic policies while claiming to be the party of regular guys.

Whatever today’s G.O.P. is, it isn’t the party of working Americans.

Quoted: When it comes to voting, the real threat to democracy is the nonstop campaign by the G.O.P. and its supporters to disenfranchise American citizens who have every right to cast a ballot. We saw this in 2000. We saw it in 2004. And we’re seeing it again now.

In one politically crucial state after another — in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, you name it — the G.O.P. has unleashed foot soldiers whose insidious mission is to make the voting process as difficult as possible — or, better yet, impossible — for citizens who are believed to favor Democrats.

Amazing what some people will do to stop people from voting. Like if your house is in foreclosure, you must voting for Obama, so lets take away your right to vote. Hey, home ownership isn't a requirement for voting!