Two weeks after opening its spring state-wide tour in Tupelo, Neil Macdonald’s Mississippi State soccer team travels to the other end of the state Saturday, as it plays Southern Miss and hosts a free clinic at Gulfport High School.  The two teams will meet on the pitch at noon, with the free clinic for ages [...]

A fascinating opinion piece by David Brooks in the February 21, 2012 New York Times describes the rise of the individual, and concludes that this is ultimately a good thing because it allows for the maximization of talent. “People want more space to develop their own individual talents. They want more flexibility to explore their own [...]

A good friend gave me a book entitled The Shakespeare Miscellany by David Crystal, a linguist and author about language; and his son, Ben, a Shakespearean actor.  Together, they put assembled a collection of miscellaneous items about Shakespeare; everything from a comparison of the number of lines per character to a review of English history [...]

According to the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, aluminum “is the third most abundant element (after oxygen and silicon), and the most abundant metal, in the Earth’s crust.” But, prior to 1886, when the smelting process of aluminum was discovered, this copious metal was somewhat of a rarity. In fact, there were probably a very small number [...]