His boss asked him to remove any mention of climate change from his notes.

His boss asked him to remove any mention of climate change from his notes. He said no. Now he's suspended without pay and must complete a mental health review. It's official: the inmates are running the asylum in Florida.

Wow.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/18/florida-suspends-employee-for-saying-climate-change-orders-psych-evaluation-before-he-can-return/

This makes me sad, LEGO...historical and other important ideas, people, places, and things rendered in brick should...

This makes me sad, LEGO...historical and other important ideas, people, places, and things rendered in brick should be valid as submitted projects. 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/03/13/392871323/lego-says-you-can-t-build-that

Just because I haven't posted this in a few years and there may be a couple of people out there who haven't...

Just because I haven't posted this in a few years and there may be a couple of people out there who haven't seen/heard it yet. Do watch...it's hilarious in the way only Eddie Izzard can be. Plus LEGO...because, well, bricks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

LEGO "Shield and Swords" wall art

LEGO "Shield and Swords" wall art

Dimensions: 21" wide by 28" high
Weight: 6 lbs.
No. of bricks: Lots

This is a follow-up to my "Excalibur" post:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/103183570053193175186/posts/bsds4kfMvz6

Sorry for all the LEGO posts today, but this is awesome news!

Sorry for all the LEGO posts today, but this is awesome news!
http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/the-lego-movie-sequel-director-rob-schrab

"I came away from my meeting with this famous climate skeptic feeling pretty depressed.

"I came away from my meeting with this famous climate skeptic feeling pretty depressed. What I had seen was a scientist whose work, in my opinion, was simply not very good."

Or, to paraphrase Hitchen's Razor, "What is asserted without (rigorous) evidence can be dismissed without (rigorous) evidence."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2015/02/24/388682684/my-depressing-day-with-a-famous-climate-skeptic

The kids and I made our first truly from-scratch LEGO Mindstorms EV3 creation today: A robotic gumball dispenser...

The kids and I made our first truly from-scratch LEGO Mindstorms EV3 creation today: A robotic gumball dispenser (yes, the kids' idea). It reads color-coded cards to dispense specific amounts of gumballs. My daughter is demonstrating it in the GIF. It uses the color sensor to read the card and the medium (stepper) motor to spin the dispenser wheel. It also says the color of the card out loud and displays a big mouth on the Intelligent Brick's display while the program is running.