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Won't work , I taught my kids how to get out of zip ties, got any steel ones ...
The louder ones might need a little duct tape too.
Marsh, you have compiled a great collection of resources here. Good Job!
...but I just couldn't help myself.
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You guys are really over doing it.
Just give your kid a large spoon, and tell them to get outside. (Don't let the screen door slam!!!)
They'll figure it out.
For teenagers wanting to be all adult and stuff give them a choice, a baseball in one hand, and a broom in the other. Choose.
And don't come back until dark. (Don't let the screen door slam!!!)
Kids have been playing in dirt since Adam. Just get them outside. Give them some rules, and the consequences on breaking those rules (be sure to follow up on those consequences), and they will figure it out.
Make them wash their hands when they come in.
My job here is done.
Just give your kid a large spoon, and tell them to get outside. (Don't let the screen door slam!!!)
They'll figure it out.
For teenagers wanting to be all adult and stuff give them a choice, a baseball in one hand, and a broom in the other. Choose.
And don't come back until dark. (Don't let the screen door slam!!!)
Kids have been playing in dirt since Adam. Just get them outside. Give them some rules, and the consequences on breaking those rules (be sure to follow up on those consequences), and they will figure it out.
Make them wash their hands when they come in.
My job here is done.
How does that work with "shelter in place"? Sure, WE could do it... our "back yard" is a half mile square. But some folks are stuck in a suburban house on a tiny lot, or worse, in an apartment. They have my profoundest sympathies.
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While shelter in place doesn't necessarily mean "indoors", so anything within reason, in this day and age should be considered. Meaning NOT on the block.
Considering those in apartments: Give them a spoon and a pot and send them to their room. Or a blanket and their room. I've built monster castles in my room with a blanket. And I've lived in Apts. most of my childhood.
Give the kids a chance to use their imaginations, parents don't have to come up with entertainment choices for the kids. They are well equipped to do that for themselves. The parents job is just to make sure they don't get hurt.
How many parents just don't have a clue as to keeping kids productively occupied?
Normally, that's what school is for.
On weekends, it's video games.
Normally, that's what school is for.
On weekends, it's video games.
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Yeah well I use to listen to the Lone Ranger on the radio, before TV. Would straddle the back of the sofa and think I was on Silver. Hit my dad in the head with the butt of my gun while he napped on the sofa. Well, I did that one time anyway. He then used his real life belt to have a teachable moment.
And if you'll notice on the TV show it says the show is based on a radio program.
What is hilarious is our grandsons' favorite winter occupation when they visit... boxes! Empty boxes. I always kept "good" cardboard boxes from Amazon and other mail orders, but now I've got stacks of assorted shipping boxes for my business as well. They fold them up, and use them as building blocks for all sorts of forts, castles and tunnels. I did have to ask them to not crush them (at one point there was a vigorous king on the mountain game going on!) but otherwise, I don't mind at all. I do sometimes have to go on a scavenger hunt for the size I need to pack an order, but that's a small price to pay for their laughter.
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My mother still has a picture of my two younger brothers and me sitting in boxes - we were playing ‘train.’ None of us had ever seen a real train, so they were pretty exotic to three little kids on a homestead in the Bush.
We didn’t have TV when I was young, and my girls didn’t have one growing up, either (that was by choice - I wanted them to grow up reading, not watching TV). One of my older daughters’ favorite Christmas presents was a box full of fabric scraps, yarn, and notions. They got years-worth of fun out of that box. A box full of wood scraps, and some nails and screws and a few basic tools would be another good gift.
Kathleen
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Virtual tour of the Winchester Mystery House
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A spoon and some dirt, a box and a blanket are fine, but kids are missing 3 months of schooling and it is going to be difficult for them to catch up in the fall if they don't at least continue studies in math and English.
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A spoon and some dirt, a box and a blanket are fine, but kids are missing 3 months of schooling and it is going to be difficult for them to catch up in the fall if they don't at least continue studies in math and English.
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We generally limit our 9 year old DD's screen time to an hour a day. That usually ends up being TV, sometimes the laptop, no computer games.
But talking about cardboard boxes, I have to show off a couple of her recent creations. She's making props for a dragon play. She attached the legs of the top dragon with red yarn, it looks very realistic when it flies
And here a couple staffs and a bow. The staffs are made from sunflower stalks. (Cameo appearance by her sidekick Reo).
But talking about cardboard boxes, I have to show off a couple of her recent creations. She's making props for a dragon play. She attached the legs of the top dragon with red yarn, it looks very realistic when it flies
And here a couple staffs and a bow. The staffs are made from sunflower stalks. (Cameo appearance by her sidekick Reo).
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Stretching exercises for us older codgers.
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Patrick Stewart is posting a Shakespeare sonnet a day until this horror is over
A lot of Britain’s greatest stage legends have gone to ground during the present coronavirus pandemic: what would make this shitshow even worse would be Covid-1
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By Andrzej LukowskiPosted: Monday March 23 2020, 2:48pm
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A lot of Britain’s greatest stage legends have gone to ground during the present coronavirus pandemic: what would make this shitshow even worse would be Covid-19 claiming any of our great knights and dames, many of whom are clearly in the more vulnerable demographic. Dame Judi Dench has published a couple of funny videos, apparently from self-isolation with her daughter, while prolific tweeter Sir Ian McKellen has been plugging away on the ol’ retweets. But it’s his BFF Sir Patrick Stewart who may emerge as top dog theatre legend from all of this. Furloughed from ‘Picard’ and whatnot, yesterday the seasoned Shakespearian did a self-broadcast reading of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ (‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom’).
Perhaps not unexpectedly, it went down pretty well, so Stewart – no stranger to an apocalyptic scenario, albeit usually a fictional one – has decided that he’ll post a sonnet a day until this nightmare is over – he followed up today by going back to the start and posting his reading of ‘Sonnet 1’.
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1. I was delighted by the response to yesterday's posting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows...
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2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1.
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There are 154 sonnets, which would allow for approximately five months of self-isolation – which is in fact depressingly in line with many approximate estimates of how long all of ‘this business’ will last. Hopefully he’ll have to finish the series ‘on the other side’.
Check out the top ten Shakespeare plays of all time.
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Important Update in the Forest – March 20, 2020
A lot has changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in these past few weeks. For our registrants, our readers, and our authors, this has been an incredibly challenging time.
Now more than ever, it is crucial to keep the love of reading alive and to support our writing, publishing, school, and library communities. Many of you have asked us new ways to engage with readers and parents virtually, and the Forest of Reading will do what we can to support you.
We made a number of changes to major aspects of the program and we wanted to update you on these changes:
PASSWORD WEBSITE: The Forest of Reading is a paid program, however, in these unprecedented times, it is important our children, educators and library staff to have access to our program. The password website, which was previously only accessible to current registrants, is now open to the public for free at forestofreading.com. With over 500 resources for this year’s nominated titles and virtual author visits previously recorded, there is so much content for people to use. Please share it widely across all of your networks. We have also created images you may use on your social media channels. Please find them under “Resources.”
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A Message from Rick Steves - free travel videos
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It’s dinner time for fifty famished hunting hounds at a French château! Are your kids stuck at home, climbing the walls, wishing for something fun and enriching to watch? Or are you a teacher (or a parent suddenly homeschooling), looking for creative ways to facilitate online learning? Take those kids to Europe! "Classroom Europe" offers 400 quick, free, and easy-to-search teachable moments on video. To be right there with Rick with all that yelping and disappearing red meat at Cheverny, check this clip out. If you’ve used this program in your teaching, I’d love to hear how it worked for you. Visit classroom.ricksteves.com to learn more.
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A Message from Rick Steves - free travel videos
•Mar 25, 2020
Rick Steves' Europe
It’s dinner time for fifty famished hunting hounds at a French château! Are your kids stuck at home, climbing the walls, wishing for something fun and enriching to watch? Or are you a teacher (or a parent suddenly homeschooling), looking for creative ways to facilitate online learning? Take those kids to Europe! "Classroom Europe" offers 400 quick, free, and easy-to-search teachable moments on video. To be right there with Rick with all that yelping and disappearing red meat at Cheverny, check this clip out. If you’ve used this program in your teaching, I’d love to hear how it worked for you. Visit classroom.ricksteves.com to learn more.
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WATCH: In Isolation, But In Unison, The Colorado Symphony Performs ‘Ode To Joy’
It's tough to perform or rehearse as a group when you're practicing social distancing. But the Colorado Symphony managed to do just that -- dropping an epic cut of their musicians performing Beethoven's Ode To Joy from their various location.
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It's tough to perform or rehearse as a group when you're practicing social distancing. But the Colorado Symphony managed to do just that -- dropping an epic cut of their musicians performing Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" from various locations.
"Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is an ode to humanity, to peace over desperation, to universal kinship and, of course, to joy," The Colorado Symphony posted on its YouTube account. "We hope that this small tribute stands as a reminder that community is powerful and together, despite the anxiety and separation, we will come back stronger than before."
The Colorado Symphony has had to postpone all of its performances through May 11 because of the state's mandate limiting gatherings to no more than 10 people. Dates for rescheduled performances will be announced at a later date.
If the coronavirus crisis is over by the summer, the symphony plans to perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on July 26.
The symphony was inspired by the Rotterdam Philharmonic's own video of the Ode to Joy posted on March 20.
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This Virtual Tour of Carlsbad Caverns Brings You 750 Feet Underground
Explore otherworldly cave formations at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico from the comfort of your couch.
This Virtual Tour of the Carlsbad Caverns Will Entertain You (and Your Kids) for Hours (Video)
Go underground from the comfort of you couch.
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UPDATED MARCH 26, 2020
This Virtual Tour of the Carlsbad Caverns Will Entertain You (and Your Kids) for Hours
Go underground from the comfort of you couch.
By now, you’re surely aware of the plethora of livestreaming and virtual options available on the internet. There’s the Metropolitan Opera, a virtual museum visit, a walk down the Great Wall of China, and much more. But, we want to add one more to the list because not only is it super cool, but it will also make you feel like you’re getting out in nature too.
The National Parks Service (NPS) has long offered virtual experiences of some of its greatest parks to help people the world over to come and explore digitally. And one of its neatest explorations is its virtual visit to the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
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“High ancient sea ledges, deep rocky canyons, flowering cactus, and desert wildlife — treasures above the ground in the Chihuahuan Desert,” NPS wrote about the park. “Hidden beneath the surface are more than 119 caves — formed when sulfuric acid dissolved limestone leaving behind caverns of all sizes.”
The service further explained, the park has a particularly storied history as it’s a place where plenty of human activity has taken place from prehistoric people to historic American Indians. It added, “...Cavern accessibility development and tourism have left reminders of their presence, and have contributed to the rich and diverse history of the area.”
For in-person visitors, the park has two historic districts, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: The Cavern Historic District and the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District. Guests can also learn more about the rich history of the area at its museum, where they can also search the park archives, which NPS explained, contains approximately “one million cultural resource artifacts that are being preserved and protected.”
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But, again, you don’t have to physically go to feel like you’re there. Just hop on the virtual tour with a park ranger, who starts the tour by explaining the cave swallows flying around during the day will soon be replaced by “hundreds of Brazilian free-tailed bats.”
As you move through the experience, you can choose to see the caves as if you too were one of those flying bats, and learn a bit about echolocation along the way.
From there, virtual visitors will move into The Big Room, a cave structure larger than six football fields, making it the “largest single cave chamber in North America.”
And the tour doesn’t stop there. But, we’ll let you click over and discover all the hidden caverns and treasures for yourself.
I don't think any of you actually had children.
I had three. None of em were bookish, they were . . . kids.
tadpoles and water moccasins from the creek, acorn fights from 20 foot up an oak tree, tree house fortresses with plank walkways between the trees.
They were imps straight out of Peter Pan.
Entertaining them aint the problem. Finding them . . that was the problem.
I had three. None of em were bookish, they were . . . kids.
tadpoles and water moccasins from the creek, acorn fights from 20 foot up an oak tree, tree house fortresses with plank walkways between the trees.
They were imps straight out of Peter Pan.
Entertaining them aint the problem. Finding them . . that was the problem.
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An Italian nonna is live-streaming pasta classes from her kitchen
Master lasagne with Nonna Nerina!
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Virtual pasta-making with Nonna Nerina
Things to do, Classes and workshops Friday March 27 2020 - Thursday April 30 2020
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Time Out says
One 84-year-old Italian grandmother has had the perfect reaction to her country going into lockdown. Nonna Nerina usually runs pasta-making workshops in the countryside around an hour north of Rome in Italy, but thanks to COVID-19 coronavirus, she had to cancel all her classes. Now, with her granddaughter Chiara, Nerina has taken her classes online.
You can book onto a live two-hour, virtual pasta masterclass where you’ll be taken through Nerina’s family recipes using simple ingredients and equipment from a shopping list you’ll be sent a week before class. Dishes on the menu include classic lasagne and ravioli with butter sage sauce. Buon appetito!
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Watch Broadway musicals and plays free for 7 days
The theatre streaming site Broadway HD is offering a 7 day free trial where you can watch performances from elite venues around the world from the comfort of your living room.
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Watch Broadway musicals and plays free online for a limited time.
The theatre streaming site Broadway HD is offering a 7 day free trial where you can watch performances from Broadway, the West End, and other elite venues around the world from the comfort of your living room.
Shows on offer include musicals, plays, family-friendly shows, ballets, documentaries, and other performances.
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I have two (grown) kids. They were raised in a forest in a remote mountain area a couple of miles straight down from a National Wilderness Area. My son stayed in that area. My daughter didn't and moved to the city. Her children live a much different and more structured life with sports and music lessons. They also go to the theater, to the concert, to the zoo and to the many regional museums. They are familiar with various classical composers as well as fine artists. They take a book with them when they go out to dinner and they journal.
(Except for the littlest one, who I was able to ruin by babysitting often. He was sent to the principal's office the first day of kindergarten.)
Who is to say what is best. I left the city to raise my kids in the country so that they would be self reliant and have an appreciation of man's place in nature. My daughter has additional values she obtained from visits to her grandparents, which she feels are advantageous. Se' la vie.
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Cursive Handwriting Practice - WorksheetWorks.com
Create a worksheet: Practice writing words in standard cursive
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This generator lets you create handwriting practice sheets with the text you provide. Enter the words you want to practice with in the large text box below, one on each line. (Hint: you can create blank practice lines with blank lines in the text box.) The other options let you set up the guide lines and change the text size.
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General Science Sites and Science Fair Sites for middle school students
General science sites and science fair sites for middle school students
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| Science Menu | |
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| Animals | Geology |
| Anatomy and Health | Plants |
| Chemistry | Science Fairs |
| Environment | Space and Astronomy |
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- Science News for Students
- Science News - From the New York Times.
- ABC Technology and Science News Summary - Keep up with what is happening in the world of science.
- The Scientific American - News and articles about science.
- Discover Magazine - News about science.
- Science@NASA - News of space and astronomy
- EarthSky - Science news and podcasts. Also info about what the stars and planets are doing each day.
- How Stuff Works - Great site! Find out how engines, cell phones, and lots of other stuff works.
- Ology- An introduction to many branches of science such as geology, astronomy, genetics, marine biology, and paleontology. Click on the Stuff to Do links to find activities. This site is by the American Museum of Natural History.
- Biology4Kids - This site has information on plants, animals, cells, and microorganisms.
- Geography4Kids - Information about the earth - the structure, atmosphere, biosphere, ecosystems and much more.
- The Exploratorium - San Francisco's Museum of Science has lots of neat activities.
- An Introduction to the Microscope - How to buy a microscope and use it. Also some examples of the things that you will see with your microscope.
- Facts about Chewing Gum - Lots of information about chewing gum including why bubble gum is pink and how to get gum out of your hair.
- Science Buddies - You can take tests here to help you find out what kind of project you would be really interested in doing. Science Buddies then give you some ideas for projects. There are also lots of projects given, so you do not have to take the tests if you already know what you want to do.
- Science Fair Central - Help with your science project.
- Science Fair Projects - From Education.com
- Successful Science Fair Projects - A one page guide to doing a project with links to other sites.
- Science Fair Projects to Study Earthquakes - by the US Geological Survey.
- Environmental Science Fair Projects - From Science Buddies.
- Environmental Science Fair Projects - From Thought.co.
- How Long does it Take for a Plastic Bag to Decompose - From Education.com
- Balloon Molecules - This site shows you how to make really big molecular models from balloons.
- Zoom Science Activities - Science and engineering experiments from PBS.
- Science Stuff - Online source of science supplies.
- Home Science Tools - Supplies and a list of science projects.
- Science Fairs - This is a list of science fairs.
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Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.
You might ask yourself... What's That Stuff?
Ever wondered about what's really in hair coloring, Silly Putty, Cheese Wiz, artificial snow, or self-tanners? C&EN presents a collection of articles that gives you a look at the chemistry behind a wide variety of everyday products.
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Just one of the articles...
Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society, providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.
It was, perhaps, an unintended consequence of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that a children's toy should get an image makeover. Once the domain of Halloween hooligans plastering innocent mailboxes and car windshields, the sticky ribbons known by the trademarked name Silly String got a new reputation as a weapon for heroes confronting a serious kind of terror.
U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams, who defuse and dispose of explosives, have been using Silly String to find booby traps since 1997 in Bosnia, says G. J., a Navy Master Explosive Ordnance Technician who most recently served in Afghanistan. "By spraying it in front of your intended path in confined spaces, in the threshold of a doorway, or at the gate outside a compound, you can detect trip wires or other hazards," he says.
In 2006, Army mom Marcelle Shriver heard a similar story from her son and organized a massive donation of sprayable streamers for the troops, receiving extensive media coverage in return. The hoopla was a boon for the company that makes Silly String.
Patented in the 1970s by Wham-O Manufacturing, the same outfit that brought the Hula Hoop to the masses, the rights to Silly String were later handed off to Car-Freshner, best known for its tree-shaped air fresheners, and Just For Kicks, Car-Freshner's toy division, says Rob Oram, product marketing manager at the company.
The stringy stuff comes in an aerosol can that helps make streamers from the chemicals inside. Wham-O's patent may not contain the current formula, which is a trade secret, but it certainly serves up the chemical principles inside the can.
Silly String, and many of the other half dozen or so spray streamer products sold in the U.S., start out as a liquid containing a polymer resin, which provides the string's molecular framework. The original patent calls for polyisobutyl methacrylate or similar molecules, and a flame retardant such as hexabromobenzene to prevent the eventual dried-up string from catching fire. A touch of pigment provides the color.
Spray streamers balance stickiness, or adhesiveness, with an ability to hold themselves together, or cohesiveness. A few other parts of the original formula contribute to that balance. Plasticizers such as dibutyl phthalate boost the polymer's strength and cohesiveness while ensuring it is still sticky to the touch. Silicone fluids such as dimethyl siloxane make the finished streamers easier to peel away from most targets. A bit of solvent such as dichloromethane keeps everything as a one-phase mixture.
Mixed in with the other ingredients is a surfactant such as sorbitan trioleate, which gives spray streamers their light-as-air feeling by facilitating foam formation. Foams are bubbly materials, and the bubbles get into the spray streamer liquid mixture through their aerosol can housing. Surfactants adsorb at newly formed gas-liquid interfaces, where they lower surface tension and help to stabilize nascent bubbles, says Eric Dickinson, a food chemist with expertise in foams at the University of Leeds, in England.
All the ingredients mentioned so far make up only about two-thirds of what is found in today's cans. The rest is propellant. "Propellant is needed for the same reason it's required for shaving cream—to expel materials out of the nozzle to create the foamlike substance," Oram says. The patent recommends chlorofluorocarbon propellants such as CFC-12, which have since been banned in the U.S. and many other countries because of their ability to deplete the ozone layer. Silly String brand streamers don't contain ozone-depleting propellants; in their place is a propellant that is both nonvolatile and nonflammable, Oram notes.
Liquid spray streamers take on their familiar stringy form when they're propelled up a skinny tube and out of the aerosol can. That process is eerily reminiscent of how another Halloween mainstay, the spider, works with polymers, says biomedical engineer David L. Kaplan of Tufts University. Spiders turn a biopolymer solution into the sticky string we recognize as spider silk.
When a spider pulls the silk protein through a narrow duct—akin to the skinny tube in the aerosol can—the amino acid chains align, coaxing them into their new form, Kaplan says.
Kaplan and his coworkers have taken inspiration from both spiders and Silly String to develop a modified, extra-sticky version of spider silk that behaves like a spray streamer when extruded from a syringe. "We want to use it for medical reasons," particularly as an adhesive, Kaplan says.
Even though sprayable foaming polymers have found some serious applications, no one's forgotten the silly spirit of the invention. Army Sgt. Neil Gussman of Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation, currently stationed in Iraq, can vouch for that. "On our big, well-protected air base, we use Silly String as, well, Silly String. People spray it on each other in the barracks," he says.
Chemical & Engineering News ISSN 0009-2347 Copyright © 2011 American Chemical Society
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Little House in the Big Woods Audiobook Free Online Streaming
Listen to and download Little House in the Big Woods Audiobook written by Laura Ingalls Wilder without annoying advertising.
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Little House in the Big Woods Audiobook: Little House, Book 1
The Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the series named Little House written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the story is narrated by Cherry Jones. In this book, the author has started the story that gave rise to the other books in the series that covers most of the events for which the inspiration came from the author’s own life events as they are similar to the American pioneers.
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Howdy, Folks!
I have no kids.
I have Missus Shimoda, and she's telecommuting from home these days.
[We've both done the telecommuting thing for years, so we're very comfortable having each other around, and genuinely enjoy each other's company.]
We've got food and liquids on hand for an extended period of time. Ditto on pharma.
A good personal library with many, many books not read yet.
Huge music and video collection.
I'm a homebody, but if I want - I can walk out my front door and go hiking in the mountains, hike down to the river, or go enjoy some local natural hot springs and not encounter anyone (maybe a few folks at some of the hot springs; they're hard to keep secret).
I have the feeling once everyone else starts to get a taste of the sort of life we're living, it's gonna be REAL hard to get them to go back into a cube farm or worse to a slow death working to make someone else rich...
Peace and Love,
Donald Shimoda
I have no kids.
I have Missus Shimoda, and she's telecommuting from home these days.
[We've both done the telecommuting thing for years, so we're very comfortable having each other around, and genuinely enjoy each other's company.]
We've got food and liquids on hand for an extended period of time. Ditto on pharma.
A good personal library with many, many books not read yet.
Huge music and video collection.
I'm a homebody, but if I want - I can walk out my front door and go hiking in the mountains, hike down to the river, or go enjoy some local natural hot springs and not encounter anyone (maybe a few folks at some of the hot springs; they're hard to keep secret).
I have the feeling once everyone else starts to get a taste of the sort of life we're living, it's gonna be REAL hard to get them to go back into a cube farm or worse to a slow death working to make someone else rich...
Peace and Love,
Donald Shimoda
Turret Buster
Gruntpa
Team Building Exercises used to be cool around here.....
Jaybird
Veteran Member
When our internet goes out i put in "Master and Commander." My wife hates it. I just received the whole collection of books in the mail. If everything quits i have about six months of reading ahead of me. would be perfect for dd (12) reading time. I'm putting in a huge garden this year so we can cover biology while shes hoeing weeds. this may be a blessing in disguise.
Old Gray Mare
TB Fanatic
Thought this might be a good place for this post. - OGM
Fair use.
Struggling With Kids All The Time Because Of Coronavirus Quarantine? 8 Tips For Handling Meltdowns
•Mar 23, 2020
Dr. Phil
With many of the nation’s schools closed and millions of children forced to stay home due to home isolation and social distancing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, parenting challenges are on the rise as many parents have found themselves home with their children all the time.
Marion says being locked up with her four children, ages 7, 8, 11 and 13, is driving her crazy. “It’s just been a new dynamic having all of them home, all day long, all week long, and they are just going a little stir crazy,” she says on Tuesday’s episode of Dr. Phil. “I feel like I’m entertaining them all the time.”
Per the CDC’s guidelines, which Dr. Phil takes very seriously, he has shut down taping in studio with guests and is recording alone in his “man cave,” with guests joining via video conference and his crew working remotely. He tells Marion she needs to require more of her children. “You need to sit these children down, and you need to let them know, ‘Listen, I didn’t create this situation, but we’re in it, and each of you has a responsibility. And, we need to talk about what that is,’” he says.
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTo6SS9yhYU
Run time 4:52
Fair use.
Struggling With Kids All The Time Because Of Coronavirus Quarantine? 8 Tips For Handling Meltdowns
•Mar 23, 2020
Dr. Phil
With many of the nation’s schools closed and millions of children forced to stay home due to home isolation and social distancing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, parenting challenges are on the rise as many parents have found themselves home with their children all the time.
Marion says being locked up with her four children, ages 7, 8, 11 and 13, is driving her crazy. “It’s just been a new dynamic having all of them home, all day long, all week long, and they are just going a little stir crazy,” she says on Tuesday’s episode of Dr. Phil. “I feel like I’m entertaining them all the time.”
Per the CDC’s guidelines, which Dr. Phil takes very seriously, he has shut down taping in studio with guests and is recording alone in his “man cave,” with guests joining via video conference and his crew working remotely. He tells Marion she needs to require more of her children. “You need to sit these children down, and you need to let them know, ‘Listen, I didn’t create this situation, but we’re in it, and each of you has a responsibility. And, we need to talk about what that is,’” he says.
Link to source:
Run time 4:52
my oldest son could read by the time he was five which we were very proud of until he read the word "PULL" on the little red box on the wall at the daycare center and then did, "PULL" the fire alarm.
I remember the Fire Chief at Scott AFB laughing about it during our "chat".
