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26 Dec

Deep Space Webkinz: The Final Frontier

As Star Trek fans and Webkinz fans, as soon as we saw the solar space suits (a.k.a. astronaut suits) in Alyssa’s Star Challenge, we knew we had to make an Astronaut Star Trek Room.  I’ve purposefully put the suits on interestingly shaped Webkinz pets — I love how the suit grows and shrinks accordingly.  I [...]

08 Jun

So You Think You Know What Creates a Crater PART ONE

I’ve recently had the opportunity to view several different craters. Looking at a crater in real life is a completely different experience than seeing photographs; go see one if you have the opportunity. Craters can be created from meteorites (comets, iron, asteroid), salt domes, or volcanoes. Can you guess which crater below [...]

03 May

Space Shuttle and Satellite Viewing

If you live in the United States or Canada, check out Satellite FlyBys to see what times you can view various shuttles. In a different country? Check out this NASA site. There are lots of interesting things to see in the sky every night. Very cool!
Here are more interesting space sites:

SpaceWeather.com
JackStarGazer.com
NASA.gov
Space.com
KEO.org [...]

02 May

“Is today a special day?”

This could have been titled “Are you celebrating something special today?”
Twice in one day last week I was asked something similar to the above - once by a checkout lady and the next time by a waitress. Just what was my family doing? Having fun going about our normal day-to-day activities. We [...]

19 Feb

Science Fiction, String Theory, Star Trek and God

Science Fiction, String Theory, and Star Trek
What do these have in common? God. Yes, God, with a capital G.
I’ve heard the comments directed at Trekkies: “Oh, what geeks,” and “They just dress up and live in a little pretend world, how adolescent.” How banal that Trekkies are mistreated and misunderstood so! [...]

17 Feb

My Unschooled 11 Year Old — Right Now

My Always Unschooled 11 year old daughter is, right now, writing a report. [By the time this posts, this information will be old news, but I'm still going to continue with the story in present tense.]
My daughter has been taking a weekly “Mythology of Harry Potter” class since last September. The class is run [...]

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