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Monthly Archives: March 2012
@broadsheet_ie big turn out for the limerick parade twitter.com/TheJamesFoley/…
— James Foley (@TheJamesFoley) March 17, 2012
Mmf.
Somewhere along the route literally minutes ago.
Thanks Shane O’Brien.
Séamus McManus writes:
“Spotted an ad for this watch in last night’s London Evening Standard. I’ve got 3 on each arm.”
Sworn to be reasonably priced. Yours for £129.95
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A tree at Lower Mustang in the Annapurna region of Nepal – Tyrannosaurified by prolonged exposure to the wind.
At 11, Alan Alda was fascinated by the colorful, translucent undulations of a burning flame.
So he asked his teacher, “What is a flame?”
“It’s oxidation,” she said.
The answer dumbfounded him. A flame is indeed oxidation, a type of chemical reaction that occurs when something burns. But the word did not capture why a flame burns orange or why it produces heat, or anything else that the young Mr. Alda really wanted to know about it.
“It’s just giving it another name,” he said by telephone last week. “It’s like saying, ‘Well, a flame is Fred.’ And that really doesn’t get you anywhere.”
Recently, Alda, now 76, decided to spare other kids the confusion he once felt by setting up a website inviting anyone – scientists included – to offer an explanation of flame and have a panel of 11 year olds judge which one was the best.
It’s called Flamechallenge, and you (that’s right, you) have until April 2nd to submit your kid-friendly definition.
A Challenge to Make Science Crystal Clear (NewYork Times)
via @stephenfry
Kate W, who spotted this, sez:
One of their “finest” special offers! 16 rolls of toilet paper reduced by 11cent!!! What a load of sh*te :)
Quite.
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Just spoke to someone who thought *Kony* was arrested for masturbating in San Diego. Now that really would have been something…
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) March 16, 2012
Irish journalist Barry Malone, who reports from Africa for Reuters, reports on some confusion regarding the scarcely believable but true reports of the arrest of Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell in San Diego.
You may like Alphabeast so.
Chris Judge wrote and illustrated [kid’s book] The Lonely Beast and, last November, it won an Irish Book Award. Chris, his brother Simon and their friend James Kelleher, all from Dublin, then created a flash card app based on the book, for iPad and iPhone and iPod (Touch).
It’s a rather slick, funny, interactive app which helps kids learn their ABCs. There are loads of sounds, musical instruments, dancing robots, spinning bow ties and laughing monkeys involved. Ewok and Bodger Kids seem to LOVE it and giggle their socks off when they use it. It could well be the future of toddler learning.
It’s €2.39. But available for just 79c tomorrow, Paddy’s Day.