America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.