Czech resources
Czech language
Current events
History
Geography
- 6th grade does Africa and Oceania
- 7th grade does America, Europe, and Asia. For now, use our links
from last year.
- 8th grade does the Czech
Republic. Try the
Czech cities dart game! Let me know if you find other good Czech geography links (they seem to be pretty scarce!)
Math
Sciences
Chem
Bio
- Very good page on the Respiratory system -- looks like he has got a whole book online
- Czech/English page on animals -- how do you say 'reptile' or 'amphibian' in Czech? Find out, and see some nice pictures, too
- Fun with fungi: Read about "colorful, multinucleate plasmodial bodies, [that] are able to slowly
creep along the rain-soaked forest floor in an amoeboid fashion. The old sci-fi movie "The Blob" was
undoubtedly created in the image of these bizarre organisms..." (first link from following link) and much much more
- I know that biomes have been covered. For a review, see our links
from last year (we have it under Geography rather than under science)
- See the Botanical Picture of the Day from UBC Botanical Gardens
- OMG! Check out The Cell Project! It's so cool! We have to get some of this stuff! (Or else make it in marzipan and eat them afterwards? =) They've got
some interactive science stuff too (I haven't checked it in detail - let me know if it's good)
- Nice article on the history of biology
Earth Science
Computer Science
- Learn to program with Logo -- is so retro and so functional at the same time
- Or! Learn to program a text adventure^H^H^H^H -- I mean Interactive Fiction using Inform
- Or! Program an actual game -- with graphics, noises, etc! PyGame is supposed to be "fun" and "easy" and if you make a game I will play it instead of desktopTD
- Alice is a newcomer, I don't know much about it. The main thing is to find something that looks interesting /for you/.
Special -- second (spring) semester, 2009-2010 school year
Special -- first (fall) semester, 2009-2010 school year
- Some year-old news: about how scientists attempt to clone extinct species
- Some news from Russia: first, Russia's armegeddon plan to save Earth from collision with asteroid. In October, Moscow's mayor promised citizens a winter without snow. It didn't work, though
- The North Pole is moving towards Russia: the magnetic pole, that is.
- NY Times Op-Ed piece on China: their economy, their exchange rate, their manufacturing and export -- and how it affects the rest of the world
- Nice article on new research regarding evolution: how (and how quickly) does the genome change?
- Read what might have been entering the public domain as of January 1, 2010 if it were not for Mickey Mouse, his lawyers, and their ilk
- I haven't yet found a good "2009 in review" story (let me know if you find one, I'll link it here). So in the meantime, check out Decade in Review in several categories from Yahoo! News
- Caltech scientists film Photons with Electrons -- see the pictures! They're cool
- Hacked Wiimote makes Hacked Wiimote Makes Super Scientific Sensor
Before Xmas Break / Before January 1, 2010
- First tool use by an invertebrate? Check out the coconut-cleaning, gathering, and hiding octopi
- December 12 is the first Saturday after Human Rights Day -- and the 6 month anniversary of the beginning of peaceful demonstrations in Iran that were put down violently.
United4Iran is planning worldwide demonstrations of solidarity with the people of Iran. I don't see any in our neighborhood, but keep an eye on the page and if there is one, let's go
- How do you define "free speech"? It's a hard question sometimes. Read Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia's Parent from the New York Times, then tell me what you think about the case.
- And here's another one to think about: What's the purpose of school? Do you agree with his description? With the importance of the different aspects of schooling he mentions? Would you leave any of the "externalities" he described out of modern schooling? What do you think of his opinion of standardized testing?
- Apple either hates smokers or else wants to weasel out of warranties. If they are that freaked out about "nicotine," what will they do if someone uses a Mac in an environment that contains dihydrogen monoxide?
- New threat: not only bananas, but cat litter, too, is radioactive
- NASA says they do not expect the world will end in December 2012 (and neither do I =) They do seem a bit arrogant when it comes to the question about 'meteors hitting Earth,' though -- we've had several near misses of really pretty big asteroids and things over just the last few years alone -- another one just last month, even! Granted, I suppose it wasn't "big enough to wipe out dinosaurs" -- but still! Methinks it would behoove them to tone down the hubris, lest Zeus lob another rogue asteroid at them.
- Read about the Gamburtsev mountain range in Antarctice -- chances are it will be in the news in the next couple of weeks. At the same time, you may as well read up on the ozone hole: it too seems to be due for a comeback.
- Is it Halloween yet? Learn about pumkins: is the Jack o'lantern really a British/Irish invention, or a US/Canadian one? What is "pumpkin chucking?" Can pumpkings cure diabetes? How is the pumkin related to a "pompon" ?
- See the inside of a dragonfruit! Where can we get one?!
- Make fun of standardized tests and "high stakes".
- Giant Solar System ribbon
- Is Johannes Kepler finally losing his stranglehold on orbits? He lived and worked in Prague, you know! And that building! Over there! It's the ESTATES THEATER!!!!
- I don't know how good or bad the article is, because I haven't read it yet. But the photo used to illustrate the article about flies who have had bad memories implanted in their brains -- this alone is worth the click-through. OK, I guess it wasn't that great an article. But the picture remains great.
- The slowdown criticizes the current rat race for the best, most customizable avatar
- Kasperky once told a competitor: I will eat you
- ITWorld article on Mechanical Turk includes interesting details on how studies and surveys are conducted -- of course! Note this isn't the be-all and end-all -- but perhaps a good introduction on just how hard it is
- Ha story about how dysfunctional Microsoft is. I found it pretty funny. It's sort of mildly technical though
- Some light reading: the Book of Ratings. Try, for instance, the one on Santa. I love their series on state quarters!! Or this quote, from "Angelic Orders, Part 1" -- "Your job may suck, but you have to admit nobody has yet asked you and your co-workers to form a vehicle."
- China celebrates 60 years of Communism (or quasi-communism? Don't write that I don't love the party, OK? =)
- Review Ring of Fire if desired -- there have been a great many disasters along it over the last few weeks: for instance an earthquake in indonesia, quakes and a tsunami in Samoa (halfway between Asia and Hawaii), and a medium-sized earthquake in central California. In the same region (but obviously not caused by the Ring of Fire), the Philippines has been suffering from typhoons
- Very, very strange news site with very, very strange English
- Moving article about organ donation
Old links. These categories below will eventually be moved off this
page to their own
pages (one page per category) so that the page is more manageable and
useful. When that happens, I'll link to them for your convenience.
Special -- from the summer vacation after the 2008-2009 school year
Fun Fourth of July news!
- Sarah Palin resigns!!!
- Disney gets a Robotic Obama!
- Alleged Nazi war criminal to stand trial
- Czech (Czecho-Slovak) Legion in Russia during WWI -- one story and
another one. Gajda defeated Bolsheviks, later became an (anti-Nazi) Czechoslovak fascist, later died in obscurity. Syrovy ended up as the Prime Minister who was made to deal with the Munich Conference and its aftermath.
General / Miscellaneous
Math
Geography
Amelia please print one of each of these PDFs in color - NOT "coastal proximity" and NOT "Detailed"
Anatomy and Physiology
Science
mad scientists' network
Wikijunior
Visit the Learning zone and/or see more advanced stuff on various topics from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Biology Corner page of links to various online virtual science lessons
list of problems solved by MacGyver
Astronomy
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
Science News
History
Computers
Drawing
Music
Practical Arts
Free Choice
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