Laura A Snyder

Laura Snyder is the author of the Laura On Life humor column. She is a professional humor writer who writes for many newspapers, magazines and on-line websites. Thousands of overwhelmed mothers and wives, harassed fathers and husbands, desperate single parents, and self-satisfied bachelors and bache...

1862 Oregon passed the homestead act ! Free land to homesteaders! The John Tibbs Wagon Train leaves in 10 days! Folks say Tibb’s is the best there is. 'Be sure you have a man to drive though, women won’t be accepted by themselves'. That’s one of John’s rules and he don’t take no discu...

The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.”  It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy—including the philosophy of science—they could effe...

The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones.  Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday morni...

The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek―a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher―gazed through a tiny len...

A Woman's Fulfillment takes a fresh look at woman's preeminent, vital role. In indicating how to bring zest and enjoyment to familiar activities and how to promote true interests of both home and homemaker by a creative, positive approach, the book will prove a boon to wives everywhere.

Seven essays explore issues of scientific methodology in various episodes of science from Newtonian physics of the 17th and 18th century to quantum mechanics in the 20th. Addressed to scholars of the history and philosophy of science, but also accessible to general readers. Annotation copyright Book