Category: education
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Learn How To Code With Star Wars: The Force Awakens Characters
http://gizmodo.com/learn-how-to-code-with-star-wars-the-force-awakens-cha-1741510958
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These Robots Want Homes
Mary at The Foundary Makerspace showed me a spectrum of robots that want homes. These are all programmable robots, and some are tablet controlled. Contact Mary Keene through The Foundary’s website or Mary’s Facebook page. We’ll start with the classroom robot kit made for programming with SolidWorks. It has a programming book as well. Next…
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Happy new year! This is not halite.
We went for a walk around Squires Lake today. When we got there is was about 29F. It warmed up to almost 36F when we left at about 1:30. The ice we saw was incredible. The kids were fascinated with the crystal lattice expression of water, and the power it had to lift the surface…
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Creating Stop Motion Video
For fun today, Jesse constructed a stop motion scene with legos and a hand-drawn backdrop. Meanwhile, I wrote an animation process. I wrote it as two scripts: one to resize input from my camera, the other to actually animate the pictures. My ImageMagick resize script is reasonably simple, and if you search for other animation…
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Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things — Medium
This so telling about our society: We’ve been conditioned since infancy to ignore most of these fatalities, along with the behaviors that cause them. If you’re a typical American, your first experience of speeding was while strapped into a car seat, and you rode past half a dozen fatal accident scenes before speaking your first…
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NASA reveals the mystery of how stars explode
This is totally fascinating! NASA reveals the mystery of how stars explode.
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Give childhood back to children: if we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less – Comment – Voices – The Independent
I think many teachers and parents would agree. “…a common Chinese term used to refer to the products of their schools is gaofen dineng, which essentially means good at tests but bad at everything else.” via Give childhood back to children: if we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must…
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