Alasandra’s Homeschool Blog is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling.

In Lost Promise, Corn and Oil remembers computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who was homeschooled as a boy.  In his teens, he helped develop RSS, then co-founded Reddit. A crusader for Internet freedom, Swartz was threatened with 35 years in prison for publishing scientific papers without authorization. He committed suicide at 26.