Posted in Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on November 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Research Triangle Park leaders unveiled plans today to update “mom and dad’s research park.” The 68-page document lays out steps for denser development of the park and the creation of a wider range of amenities. The plan is a response to concerns that there is little land left for development in the 7,000 acre park [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History on November 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Flipping through some issues of the Roanoke Beacon (Plymouth, N.C.) from 1898, I found their endorsements for the coming election, which were given entirely in verse. I don’t recall see anything like this in other papers. What a shame that it didn’t catch on. From the Roanoke Beacon issue published November 4, 1898.
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged blackout babies, hurricane sandy, richard udry, unc chapel hill on November 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“ ‘It is evidently pleasing to many people,’ said Richard Udry, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina who studied post-blackout birth rates, ‘to fantasize that when people are trapped by some immobilizing event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation.’ “Udry’s [1970] study found that the blackout babies [...]
