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Entries for June, 2008

Exploring The Ocean’s Hidden Worlds

This video is just awesome. I’m am such a TED Talk junkie.
Anyway, for those of you who are not going to take the time to watch it, there’s a part where the speaker is explaining some of the programs that they are starting that are targeting getting kids interested in the ocean (and science [...]

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My New Lawnmower Is A Hippy Pacifist

Our old lawnmower needed so tune up work done on it. New oil, carburetor flush out, etc. It had gotten to the point where it would start and then stop a couple seconds later.
A few weeks back, I had been researching how to do some of the repairs myself and stumbled upon an [...]

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If At First You Don’t Succeed - Eat Eat Again

We have had an ongoing debate with Geetle about the deliciousness of spaghetti over the last couple years. We are all in agreement that spaghetti noodles are great. Geetle “hates” spaghetti sauce to the extent that she was willing to eat a serving of peas in exchange for putting sauce on the noodles.
We [...]

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Books Make Their Way Into Life

I have a two-year-old daughter. A two-year-old daughter with an active imagination. A two-year-old daughter with an active imagination during dinner-time. So yeah, sometimes I’m a frustrated Dad, trying to get my daughter to eat her food.
Things usually start out well enough. She’ll sit on her chair, on top of a [...]

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The Bold Colors In The Foods We Eat

I have been keeping track of a heath news story for a while now. I’m still waiting for some kind of actual study instead of just parents saying that removing something from their kids’ diets greatly helped their kids. The problems with those stories is that, while their kid may have been helped, it [...]

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