Category: education
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Pipes: Everyday Plumbing with Shell Script
A pipe redirects output from one program or file to the input another program or file. This makes scripting Unix commands possible and incredibly powerful. But like anything powerful, it takes time to develop the skill to get there. It is so useful, it is sometimes hard to express to people only used to looking…
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begun learning about solar power
i have begun learning about solar power. Solar power is electricity converted from light by solar cells. I want to power a small computer using a solar panel. I need to figure out: how much power the computer needs how big my batteries need to be how to charge the batteries using the solar panels if…
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Young minds understand coding and logical deduction easily. The fact that young children can manage such elaborate tasks should be no great surprise, given what we know about their knack for acquiring languages. Five-year-olds trump their elders at learning Spanish or Mandarin because young brains are better (so the theory goes) at formulating “procedural” memories—that…
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Bellingham Air Museum
I like the phrase “starter crank.” I loved planes as a boy, but now I’m bitter about the symbolism. Is this an attempt to poke at jingoism? I love the tone of the shiny metal, truly. HIgher res available.
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Pacific Northwest Eclipse Times, Dec 10
My sister passes along the OMSI planetarium manager’s useful local timeline: “For the Pacific Northwest viewers, the penumbral eclipse begins at 3:33 a.m. PST and the umbral shadow takes a small, dark bite out of the left edge of the moon starts at 4:45 a.m. PST. For 66 minutes of the partial phase, the darkness engulfs…
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Moving Planet – Bike Bellingham – Sat Sep 24
Who wants to join us at Columbia School? [Copied from ride event http://facebook.com/350bellinghamRide Event Page ] 11am – Ten city bike rides from 10 schools in Bellingham, to converge downtown at City Hall and Library. Meet in front of: Happy Valley, Sunnyland, Kulshan, Shuksan, Fairhaven, Columbia, Larrabee, Silver Beach, WCC (meet in front of Laidlaw…
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Can We Teach Independence and Fear Simultaneously?
Good post. Bruce Schneier probably has something similar to say on a lot of these topics. Teaching our kids to be afraid of everything definitely has consequences. A lot of things we casually do – like eating while driving, are far more likely to have severe consequences than letting them walk to school. Post on…
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