Thursday, June 3, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
RosFrankie
now has a web page, making the story much easier to navigate:
http://www.rosfrankie.com/
Weekly posts will still continue on both sites.
And
I still marvel at all these technological marvels!
...but don't worry, be happy - you can start the story at the beginning by simply clicking the link under each title below.
After the last chapter title, there is a weekly short blog
The Week That is Now...
blocked in yellow
blocked in yellow
with additional educational links.
And Don't forget to....
check out the many educational links at end of each chapter.
There is an alphabetical list of all at end of this blog.
You can read below the green titles block to learn what you may learn...because you never know what you do not know.....and what you might learn.
Chapter 1 - May 14, 2009 - Tutu Troubles
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/05/tutu.html
Meet RosFrankie who is at the age when nothing fits right....
with links to:
Alaskan sled dogs; Ballet; Horses; Seeing eye dogs.Chapter 2 – Oct. 07, 2009 – About My Friends
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/10/chapter-2-about-my-friends.html
Meet some of RosFrankie’s unusual friends and learn about THE books.
With links to:
Canadian geese; Chemistry; Friendship; Garden fertilization; Lady bugs; Rosalind Franklin; Water properties; X-ray crystallography.Chapter 3 – Oct. 15, 2009 – The Inheritance
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/10/chapter-3-inheritance.html
Find out what happens when strange critters inherit strange things.
With links to:
Castle construction; Gravity; Mathematics.Chapter 4 – Oct. 22, 2009 – Finding Answers
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/10/chapter-4-finding-answers.html
Find out what happens when good friends help each other.
With links to:
Celtic; Mathematics; Salt.Chapter 5 – Oct. 29, 2009 – A New Friend
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/10/chapter-5-new-friend.html
What does a Puffin have to do with an island suddenly growing in the middle of the ocean?
With links to:
Chemistry, periodic table; Geothermal; Iceland; Puffins; Snowflakes; Vampires; Volcanoes, mid-Atlantic ridge; Water properties.Chapter 6 – Nov. 05, 2009 – A Treasure Map
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-6-treasure-map.html
Can RosFrankie read a treasure map written in invisible ink?
With links to:
National Parks; Andromeda; Antarctica; Bernoulli Principle; Colorado River; Dinosaurs; Florida; Geothermal; Invisible ink; Maple trees, syrup; Mesa Verde; Seven Seas; Stonehenge; Sunken treasure; White river rafting; Wolves.Chapter 7 – Nov. 12, 2009 – A Treasure Hunt
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-7-treasure-hunt.html
First RosFrankie goes to school and then she goes on a treasure hunt.
With links to:
Bill Gates, internet; Black Dog; Boston Museum of Science; Chesapeake Bay; Emily Dickinson; Fairies; Garfield cartoon; Guinness beer; Invisible ink; Latitude and longitude; Martha’s Vineyard; Monhegan Island; National Geographic Society; Ospreys; Puffins; Red dye; Sunken treasure; Whales; Wyeth artists.
Chapter 8 – Nov. 19, 2009 – And Beyond
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-8-and-beyond.html
RosFrankie meets Lucy and Lucy meets a Wooly Mammoth named Timmy with a tusk ache.
With links to:
Color theory; Extinct; Languages; Light; Lightning bugs; Morse code; Space exploration, Hubble telescope, Dr. Hubble; Star constellations; Tea; Wooly Mammoth .Chapter 9 – Nov. 26, 2009 – Lost Data
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-9-lost-data.html
What does Beatrix Potter have to do with a Snow Leopard who might not have been?
With links to:
Beatrix Potter; Gödel, Einstein; Herbs; Herdwick sheep; Scandinavian myths and folklores; Snow leopards; Wood qualities, ash.
Chapter 10 – Dec. 3, 2009 – Found Data
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/11/chapter-10-found-data.html
RosFrankie gets entangled with a diary, a diamond and a blue foot.
With links to:
Alan Turing; Beavers; Blue Footed Booby; Charles Darwin; Fjord ponies;Galapagos Islands; Hope Diamond; Horse; Lightning bugs; Queen Elizabeth I England.
Chapter 11 – Dec. 10, 2009 – The Castle Cellar
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/12/chapter-11-castle-cellar.html
RosFrankie and her friends go in a door which they can never come out.
With links to:
Alexandria and Pergamon; Castle construction; Chemistry, periodic table; Computers, cell phones, GPS, modern electronics; Leonardo da Vinci; Space exploration, Hubble telescope, Dr. Hubble.Chapter 12 – Dec. 17, 2009 – Forever Never Ending
http://rf-rosfrankiebeyond.blogspot.com/2009/12/chapter-12-forever-never-ending.html
HOG makes her delicious Cosmological Soup and RosFrankie meets a round yellow ball.
With links to:
Animal Tracking; Edvac, programming; Death, grief, separation; Farley Mowat; Mendel, genetics; Snowflakes; Space exploration, Hubble telescope, Dr. Hubble; Star constellations; Water properties.The Week That Is Now........
May 27, 2010
Okay – one more post before I sail off for the summer. This one comes via my daughter Karynya, who, at forty, is into farming. It’s from the BBC and relates some interesting facts regarding earthworms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8694000/8694377.stm
The question of evolution comes to mind, as does the great little book “The Beak of the Finch’ by Jonathan Weiner. A most interesting read!
May 23, 2010:
School is out and the boat is in the water. It is time to say goodbye for another summer. I will be back in October with a list of sites worthy of a visit. In the meantime, if you have time, type the name of any worldly destination into a search engine and start planning a trip of your own. Explore all the different lands and cultures of this wonderful world of ours. It is a gift.
May 12, 2010:
Spent yesterday at the New York Botanical Gardens, with a group from the Emily Dickinson Museum, viewing and walking and smelling and ingesting the beauty of their poetry display. It was hard to believe that we were in the middle of the Bronx. Lots of smiles on lots of faces…..I guess that says it all:
http://www.nybg.org/
Can you find the Elusive Emily in the picture below?
May 9, 2010
And a Happy Mother's Day to Mother Earth. Nova presents Mt. St. Helens - Back From The Dead:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sthelens/
May 5, 2010:
We just came back from visiting our family in Westminster, Maryland. I bottle fed baby lambs and we helped build a chicken coop. Our granddaughter showed us a fox den with two cubs. Naturally, this weeks blog centers on foxes:
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/red-fox.html
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Vulpes_vulpes.html
May 3, 2010:
Another site worth checking out:
http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/
April 29, 2010:
I think you all will enjoy this great site I just located in which you can find out about some great books:
http://owlforya.blogspot.com/
April 26, 2010:
Earth Day and Space Day…can’t have one without the other. Happy 20th to the Hubble…well worth the visit to NG site just to look at the pictures:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100424-hubble-telescope-20th-anniversary-pictures/#hubble-cloudy-nebula-ngc-602_19426_600x450.jpg
And, speaking of appreciating earth and space, we spent the weekend bottom painting our sail boat. Nasty stuff bottom paint. In spite of generations of researchers and scientists and boaters trying to come up with a better product, none has been found yet. I’m old enough to doubt that one will be found in my life time. Nevertheless I challenge some of you young people to set your minds to the task….oceans are simply too beautiful and too essential to poison. Here are some sites to start with in your attempts to out-think all previous thinkers:
http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/archives/8682
http://www.epa.gov/reg5rcra/wptdiv/wastemin/chrmfina.pdf
http://www.ukmarinesac.org.uk/activities/recreation/r03_03.htm
April 21, 2010
With all the activity in Iceland, I re-post some of the links from Chapter 5:
Volcanoes, mid-Atlantic ridge:
http://staff.imsa.edu/science/si/horrell/materials/Earthquakes/quakes5.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/virtrips/MAR/mar.html
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2394
http://www.exploratorium.edu/theworld/iceland/volcanoes.html
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Thumblinks/mar_page.html
http://revver.com/video/684735/bus-ride-to-mid-atlantic-ridge-iceland/
http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/4_3_1_0.html
http://www.divephotoguide.com/news/scientists_aim_to_unlock_deep_sea___secrets___of_earth__s_crust
www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2492
April 15, 2010
Okay, so I'm a big Emily Dickinson fan, I admit it. And the season is starting:
http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
April 14, 2010
Super interesting supernovas combined with Dark Energy and Dark Matter… 70% of the universe is dark energy while 25% is dark matter. We don’t exactly understand nor know much about this energy and matter but we know even less, actually nothing, about the remaining 5%......it is well worth your space-time to watch:
http://video.pbs.org/program/979359664/
April 6, 2010
Quick note - must tell you all about the great new site National Geographic has for bird identification with sounds and pictures....
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/backyard-bird-identifier?source=email_inside
The sounds alone are worth it!!!
April 5, 2010
I’m busy making plans to take my granddaughter to Disney World in December. She has never been and I have not been for almost 20 years. Lots of things to decide…there is no way we will see everything which we want to see. But we will stay at the Animal Kingdom and breakfast each morning on our balcony overlooking the savanna with many African animals. Naturally, it’s not the real thing. But I think at my age, it may be the closest I will come to actually doing an African safari. However, it will give my granddaughter something to aim for in the future. A place to add to her dreams. Epcot Center intrigued our young children years ago and, as a result of this exposure to possibilities, they have been to Japan and Spain and camping in the Colorado Rockies, among other places. It is indeed a small world after all. Disney World is about making dreams for the future. Kid stuff. And, as a great poet once said in her later years, ‘We are all children still.’
Off to plan…..and budget!!!
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/
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January 7, 2010
One never knows what one does not know…..and one never knows where a path may lead. Over thirty-five years ago when I was a volunteer guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum, I co-authored a booklet on the recipes of Emily Dickinson. Much to my surprise, the booklet is still popular. Yesterday I received an email from The New York Botanical Gardens. They are doing a show in May on Emily Dickinson’s garden and wrote a blog about her recipes using our little booklet. The site is :
http://www.nybg.org/wordpress/?p=4923
One really does never know…..when Emily was born, they did not even have typewriters, much less computers or blogs. And when she died, nobody had ever heard of her. Potential should never be underestimated!
January 10, 2010
Just got an interesting site from my son-in-law, Jeff Samuelson. It's :
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
a very interesting game site. No, it's not a big bust-um-up war game...it's color and physics. It looks neat but don't take my word for it, or the fact that Jeff, a very protective father, only sends good stuff. Instead check National Public Radio's assessment at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99080116
Then, even if you don't like the game, you'll still be on a good site to roam around.
January 11, 2010
For those of you living near the Boston MA area and who love reading the Harry Potter series, you may want to make sure that you visit the Boston Museum of Science before February 21. They have a Harry Potter special effects and the science of magic demonstrations. Web site at: http://www.mos.org/
A couple of 'not nice to read' posts for environmentalists and naturalists which note the effects of war on non-human elements:
http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-cat-tales.html
January 19, 2010
I regret I do not have a new link this week. I have spent the week attempting to assure that sites are kid-safe. Truly kid-safe. I emailed many sites regarding their kid-safe methods of guaranteeing this safety. I received no replies. I searched sites with such names as KidGrid Safe Sites Only. When I went to their Stories link I was led to a Simon and Schuster biz site with a link to Erotica. I tried to google the site’s creator but there were over one million hits and more than one person with the same name. Really, I can only advise, after a frustrating week, that parents REALLY watch over their kids and really ADVISE their kids how to watch out for their own safety. All this with out making children paranoid and fearful of life and new adventures. A tricky situation. ‘Teach your children well’ comes to my old mind…..
January 21, 2010
After last week being so frustrating, I have a wonderful new link to add this week:
http://www.justonemorebook.com/about/
If you love children's books, you will love this site...!!!
January 25, 2010
I spent some time yesterday talking about a red tail hawk which had landed in our back yard. I accidentally referred to it as a white tail hawk. Someone who knows much about the environment had said that she had never heard of a white tail hawk. I thought I had, and in googling it, I stumbled on this great site from Cornell University all about birds. So if you know that there is always much more to learn, and you want to learn some things about birds, check it out at:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/white-tailed_hawk/lifehistory
January 27, 2010
From National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions comes some very interesting blog from research trips. If you want to take a trip to some interesting place and do some interesting things via virtual reality, this is a great site:
http://www.expeditions.com/blog/?gclid=CMbgzc7UxJ8CFWpd5Qodhywy3A
February 2, 2010
Lots of sites to explore about Ground Hog Day....I think one of the most reliable is:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100201-groundhog-day-2010-punxsutawney-phil-prediction-winter-text/
February 5, 2010
I have been teaching Japanese to some 10-12 year old students and I am amazed at how much they know. They have not learned Japanese at school but they have learned it all on their own with the use of Anime, the Japanese comics, and listening to Japanese music. Modern educational systems must re-invent themselves if they wish to keep up with young aggressive learners. Go kids GO!
February 8, 2010
What do the writings of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, and Sarah Palin all have in common? Not much! If they all wrote one paragraph about snow, each paragraph would be very different from the other. Thus is the current problem with computer translation programs. A wonderful concept, a very useful tool, but a tool which must be used with caution. Translation programs have a long way to go before they reach the level which Adobe has reached with art and photography. But we all know it will be done correctly eventually. Such is the way with humans.
That said, I have another great link from my son-in-law, Jeff Samuelson:
http://pbskids.org/lifeboat/
Jeff and I are also trying to improve on the whole RosFrankie story concept, so watch for change. The major motivation of the entire story is for kids to learn how to learn. Now it is time for grandma to learn how to learn…..new technologies are a wee bit more difficult to manipulate than the TV rabbit ears of my growing up days…!!!
February 10, 2010
Via the History Channel I came upon a site new to me. It is a bit ad-heavy, but it is not inundated as badly as television is inundated with advertisement. And it does have some very interesting science and science-type of connections.
http://www.livescience.com/
You might consider it worth the time to explore it. That said, I wonder what the future of knowledge and the web will be. Will it end up as dominated by artificiality and advertisements as television, controlled mainly by people with a financial agenda? In order to maintain standards, will it have to seek the donation request path of PBS? Will unions do to it what they did to the auto industry and what they are currently doing to public education? Sigh…..is there no utopia anywhere anytime? Or is utopia in the eyes of the beholder? I need to go get a cup of strong coffee….too much thinking hurts my brain!
February 22, 2010
Well, it’s been a very busy week. Our granddaughter visited and we went skiing at Berkshire East and we also went to the Museum of Science in Boston. She wanted to see the Harry Potter Exhibit. It was very interesting but science it was not. Not even marketing science, as one had to buy a ‘one time only’ special pass to see the exhibit which was the only access to the Harry Potter gift store. One could not ‘think about’ buying something and then go back later to buy it unless one bought another exhibit ticket. What marketing genius planned that? The MOS can not play along with the ‘you can fool most of the people most of the time’ marketing theory and expect to stay in business very long. Not in Boston! Not at our science museum! After we saw the Harry Potter exhibit, we had lunch at the cafeteria. Well, let’s just say that my idea of lunch does not usually involve fighting with strangers to find a chair. We had the same problem last year…..we will never eat in their cafeteria again, not unless they make some serious changes. The natural habitant displays were pathetic and sadly lacking. Our local Hitchcock Center for the Environment is vastly superior. Of course, the Lightening and Electrical show, and The Science of Magic and the Mars rover et all were their usual great exhibits. But why does the museum have such a hard time coming up with new real science exhibits? And why, oh why, in the Harry Potter exhibit did they have to list the names of all the actors? What has that got to do with science? Who was controlling that game anyway??? Ah, well, the skiing was fun and it’s always good to see our granddaughter. We also saw Avatar in 3-D…..which is an impressive technological demonstration of what Hollywood is capable of doing. But over all, my feeling is that both Hollywood and the Boston Museum of Science need some real lessons in ‘How Things SHOULD be done.’ Including lunch!
March 1, 2010
Sometimes going backwards is well worth the trip. My husband and I re-discovered Myst this week. Myst is a computer game created by brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. Myst was the number-one selling game of the 1990s. Riven and Exile are the game's sequels. It is a beautiful game of thought, reflection and mutual dependence. Although it might be frustrating for an 8-12 year old, it is a wonderful game to play together with parents and children. I’d write more but I have to get back to the game….lots to read in the library on Myst.
March 8, 2010
We've been having much fun playing Myst....but we have also found another web site which is the 'way of the future.' Aka internet providing what one wants to see when one wants to see it, without the need for recording programs or being restricted to the schedule of TV. It's a good start....for good news reporting:
http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/archive.html
March 18, 2010 Yikes!
I missed a Saint Patty's Day Post ....been way too busy. Next year RF will cover the whole history of the wearing of the green and the need for mutual respect between creatures of the Planet Earth and Beyond. Promise.
March 29, 2010
Had a very good but very full week with our visiting Sister City guests from Kanegasaki, Japan. No communication problems exist between men who are standing by the BBQ grill, drinking beer, and grunting. It’s a male thing! Seriously, though, with all the intercultural differences and personality variations in both countries, this relationship has successfully continued for over 20 years. What’s our secret formula? I think it’s a combination of basic good intentions, respect and appreciation for our differences and, most importantly, a high tolerance for error. Everyone makes mistakes. Mistakes are 根回し and get corrected. We all learn and life pleasantly goes on.
Don’t know what 根回し is? Go learn!!! You can do it.
April 1, 2010
What's not to like about a day of jokes? I guess it depends on the joke and the joker and the jokee. But here is a link to an interesting collection of some historical jokes played through the years. As always, check your referances!
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
April 2, 2010
If you want a great freebie, and you like looking at the stars so that you can find yourself if you ever get lost, just go to:
http://www.stellarium.org/
The RosFrankie Blog will keep being posted weekly with a wide range of educational information and links. Although the site may get changed, the original story and links will always be available.
People have asked me which chapter was my favorite chapter to write. This is a hard question to answer. I know that I very much enjoyed painting the castle cellar because it kept leading me in so many unexpected directions, just like life does. And I certainly enjoyed checking out all the links….the information was often mesmerizing and fascinating. Again, just like life. And I know the hardest chapter to write was the chapter when Lucy goes home. I had to reach very far and dig very deep to write that chapter. How does one explain death to a child when one does not understand it oneself? However, I think my favorite chapter to write was the first chapter because it unexpectedly led me to all the other chapters. Just like life. I never intended to write this story. It started out as a very simple exercise in teaching my granddaughter how to draw a simple cartoon character. Of course, a character must have a name. Once RosFrankie got her name, the seed was planted and the story was born……unplanned, unexpected and unrehearsed. Just like life. Some things just grow on their own.
Another question I am often asked is why I named the main character, RosFrankie, after Rosalind Franklin. It is my way of reminding myself of what I consider to be a personal failure on my part. When I was a young and independent-minded college student during the 1960’s, I considered myself far advanced of the lagging woman’s rights movement. My father had taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. And science was making exciting advancements which caused us all to envision a promised world for everyonel. I read such books as ‘The Double Helix’ and was thrilled by the potential of it all. What a great book! It wasn’t until forty years later, when I read a biography of Rosalind Franklin, that I realized what I had missed. I remember the comment about her hair. At the time I first read the book, it did not really register with me how insulting and belittling that comment was. Is! How derogatory. I was angry at myself for my own ignorance. My misjudgment of my own times and my own assumed independence of thought. I was not ahead of my time by any means! I was simply a part of my times. I let the excitement of science blind me to the ignorance of some brilliant scientists. I made the stupid assumption that someone who was right about one thing was usually right about all things. Little gods on big pedestals. But I could not blame the little gods for my ignorance. I could only blame myself. I did not ask enough questions. In fact, much worse, I did not question the heroes. This little story of RosFrankie is my humble and insignificant way of apologizing to Rosalind Franklin and others like her, brilliant scientists who were way ahead of their time, who had to fight and/or ignore, the assumptions of their times. And the ones still fighting today. I did not see all this at the time I read the ‘Double Helix.’ Sometimes society needs questions. Sometimes society needs sledgehammers to tear down the walls imposed on our minds by our own unquestioned assumptions!
All text and images copyright 2009 Jule Dupre
Observe much - Think long - Say little...
[Credited to Oxford professor of C. Darwin]
Except, of course, in an emergency. Then you should
Look quick - Think fast - Yell loud!
[Credited to The Evil Grandmother]
Remember to always check your references!
Always question, but question with due respect.
Even yourself.
Alphabetical subject list of links:
Alaskan sled dog
Salisbury, G.- The Cruelest Miles, WWNorton, 2003.
http://www.workingdogweb.com/
Alexandria and Pergamon
www.uh.edu/engines/epi687.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/libraryofalexandria.html
Andromeda
Darling, David - The Universal Book of Astronomy from the Andromeda Gallaxy to the Zone of Avoidance, Wiley, 2003.
Animal Tracking
http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/nature/trackcard.shtml
http://www.naturetracking.com/
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/nature/track.htm
Antarctica
http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/education/3209
Ballet
http://www.the-ballet.com/
Beavers
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/beaver.html
Bernoulli Principle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHqCkCJbWQ&feature=relatedof
Bill Gates, internet
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/writing/shapingtheinternet.mspx
Andrews, Paul – How the Web Was Won, Broadway, 2000.
Bagnall, Brian – On The Edge, Variant, 2005.
Black Dog
http://www.theblackdog.com/
Blue Footed Booby
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/blue-footed-booby.html
Boston Museum of Science
http://www.mos.org/
Canadian geese
Heinrich, Bernd - The Geese of Beaver Bog, HarperCollins, 2004.
Castle construction
http://history.howstuffworks.com/middle-ages/castle5.htm
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/castle_builder/
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS315US316&q=castle+cellar+image&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=J2ipSd3cN4qhtweSpKTrDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
Celtic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
Chemistry, periodic table
http://www.dayah.com/periodic/
http://chemistry.about.com/
Chesapeake Bay
http://www.baydreaming.com/
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/history.htm
http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/issues/communities/history/
Color theory
http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm
Colorado River
Powell, John Wesley - The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons [1869], Courier Dover Publications, 1961.
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS315US316&q=colorado+river&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=AzWsSanQNcH7tge3o-H7Dw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
Computers, cell phones, GPS, modern electronics
http://www.electronicsandyou.com/Electronics-History-Origin-Development.html
http://www.nps.gov/gis/gps/history.html
http://www.computerhistory.org/
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Charles – Autobiography, [written 1892], WWNorton, 1993
Death, grief, separation
http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Death_and_Dying/
Archer, John - The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss, Psychology Press, 1999.
Dickinson, Emily
http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
Johnson, T, Editor. -The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Little Brown, 1960.
Johnson, T. Ed. -Letters of Emily Dickinson, Belknap, 2007.
Dinosaurs
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
http://dsc.discovery.com/dinosaurs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_College_Museum_of_Natural_History
Edvac, programming
http://lecture.eingang.org/edvac.html
http://www.thocp.net/hardware/edvac.htm
Extinct
http://www.britannica.com/bps/search?query=extinct&source=MWTEXT
Fairies
http://disney.go.com/fairies/
http://www.irelandseye.com/animation/intro.html
http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/700/fairies/index.html
http://www.fairyhouses.com/for_kids.html
Fjord ponies
http://www.fjordpony.com/
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/fjord-pony-jumping/72057608196580055/?icid=VIDURVPET02
http://www.asknature.org/strategy/bf1c1fdfe342ffe4c36629815861f8f6
Florida
http://www.visitflorida.com/maps
http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/facts/history/summary/
http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/kids/
Friendship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/friendship/
Galapagos Islands
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/Galapagos.html
http://www.galapagos.org/2008/
http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/galapagos.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMIltYbSXBg
Garden fertilization
http://organicgardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/manure_in_the_organic_garden
http://www.umass.edu/cdl/CDL/publications/Mass%20horse%20guide.pdf
Garfield cartoon
http://www.garfield.com/
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm
Genetic Adaptation:
www.usoe.k12.ut.us/CURR/SCIENCE/.../genetics/.../adapt.htm
esciencenews.com/dictionary/genetic.adaptation
Geothermal
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/geothermal.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRAQrDduaU0
Gödel, Einstein
Yourgrau, Palle – A World Without Time, Basic Books, 2005.
Goldstein, Rebecca – Incompleteness, W.W.Norton, 2005.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS315US316&q=godel+einstein&start=10&sa=N
http://forum.wgbh.org/lecture/companion-stars-einstein-godel-princeton
Gravity
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question232.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/what-if-zero-gravity.htm
Guinness beer
http://www.ivo.se/guinness/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfOlH4LOxFw&feature=related
Herbs
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/herbs/herbs.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Gardening/Plants/Herbs/
Herdwick sheep
http://www.herdwick-sheep.com/
http://www.visitcumbria.com/bpotter.htm
Hope Diamond
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/hope.htmHorse
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/hope_nav/main_hopfrm.html
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/a/hopediamond.htm
http://www.minerant.org/home.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/category/for-educators/eduby-animal/eduhorse/
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/
Iceland
http://www.visiticeland.com/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html
http://www.iceland.org/us
Invisible ink
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howtos/ht/invisibleink3.htm
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/ch9602.html
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/3844-making-invisible-ink-appear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_ink
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/invisibleinks.htm
Lady bugs
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef105.asp
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/ladybugs.htm
Languages
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855611.html
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=EN
Latitude and longitude
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.htm
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm
http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
www.educypedia.be/education/atlas.htm
Leonardo da Vinci
Bramly, Serge – Leonardo, Penguin Books, 1988.
http://www.mos.org/LEONARDO/
Light
http://www.howstuffworks.com/light.htm
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/
http://www.answers.com/topic/light
http://www.physics4kids.com/files/light_intro.html
Lightning bugs
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/firefly.html
http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/projects/FFiles/
http://www.backyardnature.net/lightbug.htm
Martha’s Vineyard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha's_Vineyard
http://www.mvgazette.com/
http://www.mvol.com/vineyardphotos/
http://www.theblackdog.com/product.php?productid=16437&cat=0&page=1
Maple trees, syrup
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=115
http://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/pdfpubs/7036.pdf
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,maple_syrup,FF.html
http://www.vtonly.com/recipes.htm
http://www.maplemuseum.com/history.html
Mathematics
Seife, Charles – Zero, Penguin Books, 2000.
http://www-math.mit.edu/
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
http://www.teachrkids.com/
Mendel, genetics
http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/mendelian_genetics/mendelian_genetics.html
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/mendel/
Henig, R.M. – The Monk in the Garden, Mariner, 2000.
Mesa Verde
http://www.nps.gov/meve/
http://www.nps.gov/meve/forkids/index.htm
Monhegan Island
Faller, Ruth – Monhegan –Her houses & Her People, Mainstay, 1995.
http://www.monhegan.com/030509.html
http://www.monheganwelcome.com/
http://www.islandinnmonhegan.com/
http://www.monheganboat.com/
Morse code
http://www.wrvmuseum.org/morsecode/morsecodehistory.htm
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/morse.html
Mowat, Farley
Mowat, Farley – Never Cry Wolf, Hachette Books, 1963.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB3IQMZm7CQ
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/05/11/mowat/
http://www.ecobooks.com/authors/mowat.htm
http://www.seashepherd.org/who-we-are/
National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/history-of-national-geographic-magazine-part- 1.htm
National Parks
www.nps.gov/
video.pbs.org/video/1132712651
Ospreys
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Osprey.html
http://www.ospreys.com/
http://www.raptorresource.org/ospreys.htm
http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/elpubs/pdf/EL86_5.pdf
Potter, Beatrix
Lear, Linda – Beatrix Potter, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007.
www.visitcumbria.com/bpotter.htm
www.visitcumbria.com/amb/hilltop.htm
Puffins
http://www.projectpuffin.org/
http://www.mainebirding.net/puffin/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoHD2GxcBMw
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Atlanticpuffin
Queen Elizabeth I England
http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/TheTudors/ElizabethI.aspx
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabio.htm
http://www.tudorhistory.org/elizabeth/
Red dye
Greenfield, Amy – A Perfect Red, HarperCollins, 2005.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/col-221.html
http://www.red40.com/index.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945520,00.html
Rosalind Franklin
Maddox, Brenda – Rosalind Franklin, HarperCollins, 2002.
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html
http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?tip=1&id=1782
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Franklin,_Rosalind@841234567.html#sip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GQDU67ink
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/Views/AlphaChron/date/
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/B/B/H/R/_/krbbhr.pdf
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/B/B/D/P/_/krbbdp.pdf
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/B/B/B/S/_/krbbbs.pdf
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/B/B/F/N/_/krbbfn.pdf
Salt
Kurlansky, Mark – Salt, Penguin Books, 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt
http://www.saltinstitute.org/
http://www.detroitsalt.com/salt-history.htm
Scandinavian myths and folklores
http://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/scand.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_folklore
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/language.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/myth.html
http://www.norway.org/News/archive/2000/200001lights.htm
http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/aurora/folklore.html
Seeing eye dog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_dog
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/guide_dog_schools.asp
http://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr22/fr06sum16.htm
Seven Seas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_seas
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/seas.html
Snowflakes
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
http://snowflakebentley.com/
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Paper-Snowflake
http://chemistry.about.com/od/moleculescompounds/a/snowflake.htm
Snow leopards
http://www.snowleopard.org/catfactsclassroom/catfacts
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/snow-leopard.html
http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/snow_leopard.php
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Uncia_uncia.html
Space exploration, Hubble telescope, Dr. Hubble
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS315US316&q=hubble+telescope&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=8ny2Sc_cE6DOMuXqiOUK&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
http://hubble.nasa.gov/
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
http://books.google.com/books?q=hubble+telescope&source=bll&ei=8ny2Sc_cE6DOMuXqiOUK&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=18&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/edwin_hubble.php
Star constellations
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/stars/attractions/index.html
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~jkaler/sow/sowlist.html
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/constellations.html
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=438
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/st6starfinder/st6starfinder.shtml
Stonehenge
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStonehenge.html
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/stonehenge/stonehenge.html
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/stonehenge-decoded-3372
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/stonehenge-decoded-3372/#tab-game
Sunken treasure
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18736741/
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738445,00.html
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1044.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7634479.stm
http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/toolsforadventure/games/treasure.html
http://www.shipwreckregistry.com/
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1305/features/ship.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6749705945536344056
http://history.howstuffworks.com/historians/treasure-hunting2.htm
Tea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea
Martin, Laura – Tea, Tuttle, 2007.
Gautier, Linda – Tea Aromas & Flavors, Chronicle, 2006.
Turing, Alan
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Turing.html
Leavitt, David, The Man Who Knew Too Much; Norton, 2006.
Vampires
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Vampire-bat
Volcanoes, mid-Atlantic ridge
http://staff.imsa.edu/science/si/horrell/materials/Earthquakes/quakes5.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/virtrips/MAR/mar.html
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2394
http://www.exploratorium.edu/theworld/iceland/volcanoes.html
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Thumblinks/mar_page.html
http://revver.com/video/684735/bus-ride-to-mid-atlantic-ridge-iceland/
http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/4_3_1_0.html
http://www.divephotoguide.com/news/scientists_aim_to_unlock_deep_sea___secrets___of_earth__s_crust
www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2492
Water properties
http://www.uni.edu/~iowawet/H2OProperties.html
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/state.html
http://core.ecu.edu/geology/woods/H2OUNEEK.htm
http://www.chemistry.nmsu.edu/studntres/chem115/notes/ch11.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(molecule)
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Physical_properties_of_water
Whales
http://whale.wheelock.edu/Welcome.html
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/whales/bioacoustics.html
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/cetacea/cetacean.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/2605/
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/KillerWhale/home.html
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/killer-whale.html
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS315US316&q=whales+pictures&revid=742665361&ei=Zl26Se27N5-atwfd-fHiDw&resnum=0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=oF26SYbdBtKCtgfjztziDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
White river rafting
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS315US316&q=white+river+rafting&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=5l26SYG-OeH8tgfW7eTiDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
Wood qualities, ash
http://www.asknature.org/strategy/547dbeb778bd94c5d78eb0d18d39ccdc
http://www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/
http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/menu.asp?id=80
http://www.woodmagic.vt.edu/html/Activities/wid1.htm
Wooly Mammoth
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/woollymammoth/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/mammoth/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0408_050408_woollymammoth.html
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7lo7m_baby-woolly-mammoth-discovered_animals
http://www.nps.gov/bela/historyculture/woolly-mammoth.htm
www.amherst.edu/~pratt/
Wolves
Mowat, Farley – Never Cry Wolf, Hachette Books, 1963.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wolves/
http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/wolves.htm
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolf.html
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wild/pdf/wildlife/WOLVES.PDF
http://www.albany.edu/~knee/wolf.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/05/gray-wolves.html
Wyeth artists
http://urp.udel.edu/scholars/sample/artcst.aspx
http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/
http://studiozz.blogspot.com/2009/01/christinas-world-andrew-wyeth-are-you.html
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/ballet/nw/lessons/teacher_pak/chron_jamie.pdf
http://www.jamiewyeth.com/unsigned.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monhegan,_Maine
X-ray crystallography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallograph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallography
http://www.xray.utmb.edu/
http://www.pitt.edu/~geib/Welcome.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/profiles_franklin_added07.html
http://www.ntanaka.bio.titech.ac.jp/OldVersion/franklin.html
Links from the Weekly Blog
[updated 3 June 2010]
http://www.amnh.org/news/2009/12/the-known-universe/
http://www.bytesizescience.com/
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html
http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=%E3%81%AA&g=&e=+mountain&s=&rt=0&start=1&sid=1260539449_35276
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8694000/8694377.stm
http://www.nybg.org/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sthelens/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/red-fox.html
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Vulpes_vulpes.html
http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/
http://owlforya.blogspot.com/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100424-hubble-telescope-20th-anniversary-pictures/#hubble-cloudy-nebula-ngc-602_19426_600x450.jpg
http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/archives/8682
http://www.epa.gov/reg5rcra/wptdiv/wastemin/chrmfina.pdf
http://www.ukmarinesac.org.uk/activities/recreation/r03_03.htm
http://www.divephotoguide.com/news/scientists_aim_to_unlock_deep_sea___secrets___of_earth__s_crust
www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=2492
http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/
http://video.pbs.org/program/979359664/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/backyard-bird-identifier?source=email_inside
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/
http://www.nybg.org/wordpress/?p=4923
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99080116
http://www.mos.org/
http://www.justonemorebook.com/about/
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/white-tailed_hawk/lifehistory
http://www.expeditions.com/blog/?gclid=CMbgzc7UxJ8CFWpd5Qodhywy3A
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100201-groundhog-day-2010-punxsutawney-phil-prediction-winter-text/
http://pbskids.org/lifeboat/
http://www.livescience.com/
http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/archive.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
http://www.stellarium.org/
December 21, 2009
An interesting link for this week is a video from the American Museum of Natural History:
http://www.amnh.org/news/2009/12/the-known-universe/
It is quite beautifully done! Thanks for the link is given to my son-in-law, Jeff Samuelson.
December 24, 2009
Cool chemistry is what is done in chem. Lab……clink on the link below to make a snow globe and/or use shaving cream to make holiday cards. Science is fun. Even boron comes into the picture…Enjoy and Happy Holidays!!!
http://www.bytesizescience.com/
December 29, 2009
Two years ago, we were visiting our daughter and her family down in Westminster, Maryland, gazing at the wonderfully bright stars in the clear winter sky. There was one that was especially bright, and, naturally we wondered what it was called. We went onto the web and stumbled across a wonderful web site which is much like having a free planetarium on your computer. We even downloaded it to our portable and use it all summer on our sailboat. We are definitely in the ‘old’ category, but not too old to marvel at modern technology and the knowledge which is at our fingertips…or rather at our keyboard! Here is the site:
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
By the way, the bright star we saw is Jupiter. It is one of the brightest objects in the sky, along with the sun, the moon, Venus and Mars. Right now it is visible at twilight. In March 2011 it will be very bright. Why? That is a question which inquisitive people can find the answer to for themselves. Enjoy the hunt!
New Year’s Eve –
Between 7 and 8 o’clock tonight there will be an eclipse of the moon. A Blue Moon!
An interesting site on NOAA:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html
And here is an old statement which people have been fooling around with for a few thousand years:
‘Everything I say is a lie.’
Now for the fun part….if I say that everything I say is a lie, am I telling a liar or am I telling the truth? If I am telling the truth, then the statement means that I have just said something which is not a lie, thus when I say ‘Everything I say is a lie,’ I am not telling the truth. And if I am telling a lie, then I just told the truth which means everything I say is not a lie.
Confused?
Good. You have just recognized a flaw in logic. The logic which we humans use to explain everything. Rather like finding a worm hole in space. Or do I mean a Black Hole?
Ask questions. Check your references. Always leave room in your mind for potential. Why? Because one never knows what one does not know.
Happy New Year, Happy New Year’s Day and Happy the rest of your Life.
January 4, 2010
Some of the most impressive tools on the internet are the translation programs. Way back when I was a kid, languages were often a barrier to understanding and friendship. It is very nice to see these artificial walls come down. Many of the sites cost money, or are full of advertising, or are simply not very good. However, if you search hard enough, and know just enough about the language you wish to translate, you should eventually have success finding a good site. Having lived in Japan, I have an interest in Japanese. If you have an interest in the Japanese language, or an interest in anime, I can recommend the following translation site:
http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=%E3%81%AA&g=&e=+mountain&s=&rt=0&start=1&sid=1260539449_35276
The current page it is set on is for the word ‘mountain’ but you can change the word mountain to any other. So far I anm very impressed with this site.
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