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via captainahabsrarebooks: Small collection of First Editions by Robert A. Heinlein, including his first book ROCKET SHIP GALILEO (1947), along with classics like THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON (1950), THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH (1951), and several of his popular juvenile titles. These can be found on our website at www.captainahabsrarebooks.com
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I really believe in history, and that’s something people don’t believe in anymore. I know that what we do and think is a historical creation. I have very few beliefs, but this is certainly a real belief: that most everything we think of as natural is historical and has roots — specifically in the late…
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The Hopscotch Blog: Coding to Solve a Real-World Problem
The Hopscotch Blog: Coding to Solve a Real-World Problem gethopscotch: You probably already know that Hopscotch is a great way to learn programming by creating games, animations, stories, or whatever sparks your imagination. Computer programming is also about solving real-world problems, though. A teacher in Yukon, Oklahoma used Hopscotch to solve a real problem he…
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When Imagining The Future Start With Breakfast And Extrapolate — Margaret Atwood
When Imagining The Future Start With Breakfast And Extrapolate — Margaret Atwood an excerpt from Joe Berkowitz’ piece, How Margaret Atwood Creates Scary-Plausible Worlds This may sound silly, but I like to wonder what people would have for breakfast—which people, as their breakfasts would be different—and where they would get those food items, and whether…
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How Stuff Spreads # 2: How Videos Go Viral
How Stuff Spreads # 2: How Videos Go Viral hautepop: abc3d: How do videos go viral? How do people share them through social networks? And what are the dynamics of ‘virality’? Following the success of our Gangnam Style vs. Harlem Shake study (May 2013), Twitter UK invited us to explore four more big viral phenomena. The stories…
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pigeonbits: Here’s a short little review comic I did about Prismacolor colored pencils, and how sad it makes me that they’ve been declining in quality over the years! I’ve mostly switched over to Polychromos by now (and will be 100% converted by the next ATCF chapter break), and they’re definitely great pencils, but I think…