Snorkeling Tips

Clear water from inside your mask: Fingers to the forehead, blow out through your nose.



The video. Fingers to the forehead, blow out through your nose.

Basics of snorkeling Good overview.

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First In Flight

Videos on the Wright Brothers and their invention of the airplane around 1903.



This one is a good overview to get started.

David McColough, in the video, is a Pittsburgher and an accomplished historian and author.

This one is longer and has a lot of great detail.

I started this search looking for a video of the Wright Brothers in flight. There is a clip around 14:35 in this video

Here is some 1909 footage when they were selling the plane to the US Army

And here is some footage shot in Le Mans, France, in 1908 when they were showing the plane to the French.

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Magic Mermaid

This video explains the Mermaid photo.



Click this link to play the video.

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Livi's Blues.

This video is designed for you to play along to on your cello.



Click this link to play the video on YouTube.

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The Surface Tension Of Water.


My Father discovered this process when I was about 14. I have always remembered it and until a few weeks ago, I just figured he was misataken.

Remember? We talked about the surface tension of water at Butter Milk Falls when we we're looking at water spiders "walking" upon the surface of the water. - where those kids were jumpimg off the cliff - YIIIKES

The Experiment:

  1. Pretty much fill a glass w water and put a sopping wet wash cloth in it, exactly like the picture above.
  2. The glass should be in a sink or the wash tub.
  3. Notice how far the water is from the top of your glass, and make a mental note.
  4. Go away for a half hour or so.
  5. Come back and observe how far the water is from the top of the glass. You will rely on the mental note you made in step 3.
  • What happened?
  • Hint: remember "The Surface Tension Of Water."
  • Did water flow straight up?! - defying the laws of gravity?
  • Ha ha. My Dad knew what he had observed.
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Interview w Bridgerton Costumes Designer.


This is from Vogue magazine

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Fantastic fashion designer.


Iris says: “MY DESIGN IS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT FASHION GENERALLY IS TODAY. I GO BACK TO FORGOTTEN CRAFTSMANSHIP AND THE LOVE FOR HANDWORK, AND AT THE SAME TIME I’M EMBEDDING NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND COLLABORATIONS WITH ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, AND SCIENTISTS.”

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Nigerian-American author Toni Ademy, on Children Of Blood ... =========


interviewed on Npr

Strange spider and how scientists figured out how it hunts =========


From Npr

Fiddle and Keys Cajun Song =========


Jambalaya Tutorial for Beginner Fiddle n Beginner Piano

Chloe Catching Frisbee =========


Doggies' First Frisbee Catch


Whacky New Songs ==============

Click the Play button in the right column >> to hear an NPR segment on some whacky songs and whacky song writers.


And here is a you tube of a song they wrote, Queen Of No Share.

Cool Parrots ==============

Click the Play button in the right column >> to hear an NPR segment on an experiment that seems to show that African Parrots care for each other in ways that the best humans do.

Rain Forest Canopy ==============

Click the Play button in the right column >> to hear NPR's Madelien K. Sofia interview ecologist Nalini Nadkarni.

Nalini Nadkarni's Treetop Barbie page

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Ms. Nadkarni on NPR's Radio Show: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Nalini interviewed on NPR's Short Wave

podcast.

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See Nancy Pelosi Rule the US House of Representatives

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