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Your Carbon Footprint
Your carbon footprint says a lot about you, and how you use or abuse the natural resources around you. If you’d like to calculate your impact upon mother earth, there are several online resources to help you do so. (Image … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, carbon footprint, CFL bulbs, climate, conservation, earth, ecology, energy, Infotoon, plants, pollution, science, thermostats
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Black Holes, and Friends
The nucleus of our galaxy (the Milky Way) is a bit of a mystery. Astronomers are aware that it’s packed with older stars and that it mysteriously gives off an enormous amount of energy, and these facts give rise to … Continue reading
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Tagged black hole, collapse, event horizon, gravitational, Infotoon, mass, radiation, relativity, Schwarzschild, singulariity, stars, supermassive
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Faces. What Learning is All About
Kids Discover (with whom I’ve worked for many years) have created a video that shows what real learning is all about using speech therapy assessment, visuals, and sound among other things. “Change your perspective.” That’s my mantra, and I’m sticking … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, ipad, kids discover, learning, perspective, science, space, video
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How Dibble Was Doodled
Penguin Young Readers has just released the first two books in the Doodles of Sam Dibble series (Judy Press, author), and I thought it would be fun to show you a bit of the process with a little explanation of … Continue reading
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Tagged doodles, drawing, Judy Press, michael kline, Penguin Young Reader's Group, Sam Dibble, sketching
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E-Waste and Friends
So, where will that phone you have stuck to your thumbs be in 5 years? 10 years? A new term has recently found its way into our vocabulary, that of E-waste, or electronic waste. It is used to describe discarded … Continue reading
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Tagged E-waste, electronic recycling, landfill, lead, mercury, recycling, salvaged computer, used computers
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Twin Telescopes… On the Moon?
There has been talk of using twin telescopes on opposite sides of the Moon that could be linked together, so that they are pointed at the same target at precisely the same time. Combine the information from each, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, astronomy, infographic, Infotoon, lunar exploration, moon telescope, twin telescopes
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The Nothing Days
Of the sacred calendar year (not to be confused with the solar calendar) that the ancient Aztecs followed (13 months of 120 days, or 260 days total), the five days at the end year were known as “nothing” days. Children … Continue reading
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Tagged aztec, calendar, glyphs, Maya, nothing days, sacred calendar
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Hair We Go Again!
Which type are you? Straight or curly? Or like me, just losing it? The “attitude” of your locks is actually based on chemistry (tell that to your stylist). Because hair is largely protein, and each protein contains atoms of the … Continue reading
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Tagged chemistry, curly hair, Infotoon, michael kline, straight hair, sulfur
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Malapropisms or Malaprops
In Richard Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals, a character named Mrs. Malaprop often uses a comically incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, hence the word malaprop. Here are a couple of contemporary examples: “Alien visitors … Continue reading
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Tagged malapropism, malaprops, Norm Crosby, Richard Sheridan, The Rivals, wordplay, Yogi Berra
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Where Does Oil Come From? Think back…
Plants and animals come, and plants and animals go, but our sun keeps right on working. It heats up the remains (ick) and helps the dead matter to decay. This makes food for other plants (and animals that eat those … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon cycle, coal, decay, dinosaurs, gas, infotoons, michael kline, oil, pressure
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