by McKenna Gordon | Feb 4, 2019 | Parenting
Girls grew up being told they could be anything. But what they heard is that they had to be everything. For my generation, the expectations on girls are to be ambitious, smart, pretty, socially active, athletic, kind, and liked by everyone. To succeed in education and...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 4, 2019 | Education Philosophy, Parenting
This recent homeschooling/life groove we are in is something else. There is love. There is cooperation. There are chores without (tons of) complaint. There is some seriously passionate and explorative learning going on. There is patience with self and with others. And...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 4, 2019 | Parenting
Imagine you’re standing by the side of a pool and someone is splashing you. It’s annoying, so you look into the water and find that someone is there flailing their arms, to keep from drowning. Would you turn to them and say, “Hey! Quit splashing me!”? No, you would...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 3, 2019 | ART, AWESOME VIDEOS, NATURE
Listen to the otherworldly sounds made as Mårten Ajne skates over the thin, black ice of this lake outside Stockholm, Sweden. Nordic skating is both an art and a science, as skaters look for the most black, most thin ice in order to make the most high-pitched laser...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 3, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, HISTORY
How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became the most widely spoken word in the world. “OK is thought to be the most widely recognized word on the planet. We use it to communicate with each other, as well as our technology. But it actually started out as a language...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 3, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, SCIENCE, SPACE
This TED Ed from Harvard University’s Yuan-Sen Ting gives us a glimpse into how we can know so much about galaxies, planets, and stars. This is how astrophysicists see the universe. “Want to know the secrets of the universe? Just follow the...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 3, 2019 | ART, AWESOME VIDEOS, SCIENCE
Seven builders collaborate to make this epic Rube Goldberg machine, a complex chain reaction that travels through the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, office, living room, patio, and backyard, using everyday objects to automatically pour lemonade for the entire team of...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 3, 2019 | ART, AWESOME VIDEOS, NATURE, SCIENCE
Using a mixture of 6 parts water, 2 parts dish soap and 1 part white corn syrup, Don Komarechka filmed ice crystals forming across the thin walls of freezing bubbles. The corn syrup is an important ingredient as it allows the bubble to thicken on the bottom and acts...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 24, 2019 | ANIMALS, AWESOME VIDEOS, NATURE, SCIENCE
Charlie from “Weird But True!” and “Nature Boom Time!” on National Geographic explains why geese fly in a “V”...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 24, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, SCIENCE
Because of the chaotic way fingerprints develop and the multiplying effect of compound probability, it’s basically impossible for any two fingers to have matching...
