Robert M. Price is the author of Jesus is Dead (2007), The Case Against the Case for Christ (2010) and other books.
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Cinemagraphs
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Teachers are awesome
Good teachers inspire awe. I don't understand why any student would ever want to give a teacher a hard time. Seriously. OK, I'm a nerd, but who cares. Ask any astronaut and she'll tell you the same thing.
And there was Christa McAuliffe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe
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Christa McAuliffe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McAuliffe obtained her first teaching position in 1970, as an American history teacher at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School in Morningside, Maryland. From 1971 to 1978, she taught history and civics…
Some kids are learning to type on a keyboard in 3rd grade
{old man voice} When I was a kid we didn't computers in school.
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Keyboarding
The third grade keyboarding program in Lee’s Summit is a fifteen lesson unit. The goal of the program is for students to learn proper keyboarding technique and correct key stroking. The curriculum is …
I get this a lot in the YouTube app for iOS.
Asteroid Made with Blender
I made this asteroid following the tutorial at Blenderguru.com. Andrew Price gives tips on how to add stars, debris and a nice glow, but I stopped short after I had just created the shape of the asteroid itself.
Koyaanisqatsi
Watch Koyaanisqatsi (1982) free on Hulu (with advertisements).
Koyaanisqatsi
A motion picture essay which takes a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances. The first film in a trilogy which was followed by Powaqatsi.
Freakonomics
I just read Freakonomics, by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt. I learned that "Florida Snow" is slang for powdered cocaine.