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Carbon Based Life Forms

Growing up, I would hear science fiction people talking about creatures with bodies as “carbon based life forms.” Not being good at chemistry (it’s too much like math for my taste), I didn’t understand what “carbon” had to do with anything. Why didn’t the people who had no trouble inventing Read more…

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Indoctrination and Child Abuse

STOP childhood INDOCTRINATION! It’s CHILD ABUSE! ~Ned in an email to my website Indoctrinate: : to teach (someone) to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs Child Abuse has been defined as an act, or failure to Read more…

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The Wonders of Wood

My family and I have been taking daily walks through the woods this Summer. We’ve seen downed branches and trees, but many more that weathered the storms. It takes a lot to fell a healthy tree in good soil! Which is better for building a strong home, wood or steel? Read more…

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Earth’s Force Fields

  As a girl, while traveling to our new home in Alaska and then during years living there we often got to see the Northern Lights: the Aurora Borealis.  I knew they were caused by tiny particles from the sun colliding with earth’s magnetic field.  Now I know lots more Read more…