#tangram translations

[mo79zz]

Image Making Workshops

As part of the 'A Place of Words' brief, we were asked to provide 4 images related to our two words, to recreate them in 4 different workshops:

Translation, Reduction, Recreation, Simplify

We did this by using Lino printing, collages, stencilling, and tangrams.

Featuring my blood in the corner from slicing myself with the tool😛

These are the images I created from it. The pictures I printed were too difficult to recreate so I winged it

This is the final collaged outcome

I really didn’t like this workshop. I understand it was to get the cogs going but it was just not enjoyable for me, I think a day to help us find an article for our magazine would have been more useful so we could get advice and then any left over time turn into a studio day. I did however really enjoy the lino printing - despite putting my literal blood sweat and tears into the process and think I might do something with it for my magazine as it is all about up cycling clothing.

#visualcommunication #place of words #induction #workshop #workshops/inductions #year 1 #level 4 #unit 3

[baileytomkinsviscomblog]

Place of Words - Image Making Workshop

For this workshop, we were told to print out four images relating to the topic we would be exploring with our magazine; these would then be used for inspiration as we created various pieces with different mediums to represent each image.

The images I chose related to various concepts relevant to the words "cultural" and "system,"  including religious and cultural traditions, global environmental attitudes and initiatives, and animal agriculture systems.

Here are the images that I chose.

Vanuatu land diving tradition

Factory farming of pigs

Kumb Mela - religious festival in India

Copenhill ski slope - sustainable power plant in Copenhagen featuring a 490m artificial ski slope on its roof.

We were split into groups and rotated between four different stations.

Station 1 - Translation

This station involved reducing the complexity of an image by using a stencil to print a selection of our images.

I found the stencils difficult to hold in place as they were very light and didn't stay in place, however, I think the solution for this would be to use a thicker material and perhaps tape to keep it in place.

The positive result of having to press lightly with the sponge and having a stencil that wouldn't stay in place is the fact that I was able to create these smudged and crude-looking effects, reminiscent of blood stains and splatters, which emphasise the graphic reality of animal cruelty and exploitation that I was trying to represent.

I also felt that using multiple prints with the same stencil in a grid layout was effective in representing the idea that pigs are viewed simply as commodities and statistics rather than sentient creatures. Additionally,  the way the pigs are arranged is indicative of the small and crowded living conditions pigs are kept in, especially within factory farming.

Station 2 - Reduction

At this station, we used lino to carve and print elements of our chosen photos.

I thought this would be a good opportunity to use the land diving image. I believe the scratchy and crude style of the lino print blended well with the handcrafted and slightly hazardous-looking wooden structure in the image.

I created this design by roughly tracing the image onto the lino with a pencil and then using that as my guide.

The end result didn't come out perfectly mainly since cutting the lino was a very time-consuming task and certain areas had to be rushed and simplified. The print also featured some irritating blotchy areas which I wasn't sure how to resolve.

Station 3 - Recreation

At this station, we had a selection of images and textures we could cut and paste to create a collage representing our images.     

I enjoyed this station the most, as it provided a lot of inspiration and potential creative routes. Having to choose a selection of random patterns, text, and images in such a short amount of time allowed me to think outside the box and make design choices without thinking too much about them first, resulting in an abstract and nightmarish creation that effectively and emotively represents the message I was trying to express.               

I find collages to be a great way to layer a lot of visual information into small spaces. They're also a very quick way to build an image that may start with one idea and then take a completely new direction. For me, I find collaging exciting, as I never know how a piece is going to end up.   

 I feel I may use this technique a lot during my magazine project, especially as the tone and message of my chosen topic may often require photographic representation as well as other illustrative mediums. We aren't allowed to use found images on our own; however, I feel that using collages can be an effective way to breathe new life into an image. I also feel that stencilling and collage together could be an interesting combination.

Station 4 - Simplify

At this station, we had to simplify our image by using a tangram to produce an image using shapes.

I found this station to be the most challenging as it requires a somewhat exact and mathematical approach. It's also a medium that I had never used before.

I decided to represent the flowers featured in the image of the Kumb Melah festival.

I found that this technique could offer some interesting results however, I don't believe it's particularly suited to the topic of my article and my planned design aesthetic.

[natashahyleet3]

Image Making Workshop

In this workshop we worked at 4 different stations using different techniques to create an image.

I used lino in order to carve and print an image of an architectural building. I specifically chose this image as it promoted The Open City Podcast, a charity which helps to make heritage sites more open and accessible. I had to reduce a lot of the details of it as I found it quite hard to carve into. The first print I completed did not have enough ink, so I added more to complete the second.

In the second station, I translated part of my image by tracing it through the use of a light box. I used a scalpel to cut out these parts and to create a stencil. I then used acrylic paint and this stencil to print my image.

In the third station, I looked through magazines and textured paper to recreate my image of a medicine bottle and needle to represent euthanasia.

In the fourth station, I had to simplify my image using a Tangram by only using shapes. I tried to create a graph/ bar chart to represent the gender pay gap and a person by using the triangles.

[pkcgrph]

writing initiative #6

March 21, 2023

Which piece did you present to the class today? How does it relate to the other pieces previously presented?

Describe 2–3 specific strengths your classmates found in your work and their reasons for identifying them.

Describe 1–2 specific ways your classmates thought you could improve this work going forward.

Consider the remaining outcome yet to be presented in a couple of weeks; why have you put it off the longest? Describe your reasons for presenting this outcome last.

Finally, you have now had a chance to present each of your projects (2D, 3D, 4D, Reflective) in process to the class. Produce an image of each one and describe how an aspect of your word is manifested in each piece.

Today I presented my process work for my 4D outcome, explaining the concept, the potential execution, and how it connects to my word. Taking inspiration from paint swatch displays in home hardware stores and the natural desire to investigate things that interest us, I plan to create a display of "paint swatches" where instead of each portraying a different colour, it will present a different phase in my process. The idea behind this focuses on the user experience and their way of guiding themselves through my process work, continuing to develop the idea of infinity in the user experience.

The viewer will be able to freely pick up swatches/cards that interest them and read/look at the contents of it. They can then create a documentation of their own, by building a paper chain, where each link identifies what card has been read. As the links are connected to one another, they will be able to look back and see what pathway they took, and compare them to others.

As of right now, feedback from my classmates were positive, with questions pertaining to execution: will you actually be making the display? What are the dimensions of the paint swatch? etc. They seem to like the interactive nature of the piece and how its format is not dictated linearly.

I am still putting off my 4D >:(. Have an idea for it, I promise, I just am still not sure what I want the content of it to be. In the last writing initiative, I was trying to find ways to use the creation of my reflective as the content of my 4D, but I ended up moving quickly through the production of reflective that I didn't even get to set things up logistically between them. Another direction that I am going towards is using lego and filming that as my content. A thought that I brought up in group discussions was how kids can take plain old lego blocks and build them into practically anything, so I'd like to find a way to incorporate this idea.

ABBOZZO IN 2D: The definition of abbozzo translates to a rough sketch or model. I embodied this idea through the content presented on the poster series, and by the viewing experience. The transparency paper was chosen to allow the viewer to layer them however they please. It is a subjective reading experience, much like the sketching or drafting process.

ABBOZZO IN 3D: Continuing to build off subjective viewing experiences, my 3D outcome focuses on infinite possibilities in an everlasting space. My interactive infinity mirror tangram allows the user to move the pieces within the shadow box space. The viewer can create new shapes, each different from the last. As new shapes are formed, they are reflected infinitely by the mirrors, expressing the endless directions they can be taken to.

ABBOZZO IN 4D: By incorporating interaction into this video I have allowed the viewer to shape the story or outcomes they see. Sketching and drafting is a very hands on process that reflects decisions and choices of the maker, this short film is a way of demonstrating this idea.

ABBOZZO IN REFLECTIVE: Powered by human curiosity, I developed my reflective piece so the viewer could pick up and view whatever looked interesting to them, and in any order. Additionally, there is a "building" aspect where the viewer can track what card they read within their viewing sequence.

[longtaste]

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For example, Coding Awbie teaches players how to write lines of code by having them connect and arrange physical blocks.Īll of the games use original, wacky characters and artwork to really engage children and make it more of an entertaining experience than a traditionally mundane educational experience. The in-house team at Osmo includes child development researchers working with designers to truly capture and reflect these principles and concepts of embodied learning. This is called embodied learning, something that decades of research have shown to be instrumental in sustainable learning. The goal of the games is to teach abstract concepts by connecting them to those real-world objects and actions. This makes learning much more fun and interactive for the students involved. The games Osmo produces are hands-on, giving the players the opportunity to use objects in the real world to interact with the digital world. Since then, Osmo’s game topics have grown to incorporate a number of subject areas (including math and coding). The first three games were Newton, Tangram, and Words which have all been wildly popular for several years now. Lastly, still, on the note of language, it is also important to note that Osmo Words tiles are only offered in the standard western alphabet.Īs you probably know, Osmo’s platform is centered around their games. They do have translations for on-screen prompts, however, and these are available in: One drawback with Osmo games is that they do not currently offer narration in languages besides English. Additionally, Monster and Super Studio are appropriate for ages 4+. These games teach storytelling, pre-reading skills and fine motor skill development. This kit has four games designed for kids aged 3-5, so it’s great for giving a head start. The game structure is great for younger audiences because it makes computer science fun and instantly rewarding.įor younger children, there is a new Osmo Little Genius Starter Kit.

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The full game includes 47 levels (plus 'infinite' bonus content) across 8 distinct level types: Ambient, Solar, Antimatter, Impasse, Repulsor, Sentient, Warped Chaos, and Epicycles.īuying directly from Hemisphere Games entitles you to all three versions: PC, Mac and Linux, for only $10.Īward-winning electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas, High Skies, Biosphere, Julien Neto, and more.Įndless replay value: play random versions of any level.Most Osmo games are designed for ages 5-12, so they are perfect for elementary students first learning to code. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you. Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Relax… good things come to those who wait. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.

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[beihonglin]

[ENG SUB] 《那时的我 现在的我》 - The Me Then, The Me Now | TANGRAM, You Zhangjing, Lin Yanjun, Qiang Dongyue

#lin yanjun #you zhangjing #tangram #trainee18 #banana culture #qiu zhixie #bei honglin #lin chaoze #li ruotian #jiang jingzuo #gao maotong #qiang dongyue #tangram translations

[forzhengting]

200825 · lu dinghao weibo update

[trans] practice, practice, and practice again... quack gifting you guys little flowers on qixi

#lu dinghao #idol producer #tangram #idpupdates #translations #cutie !!!!! the lil flowers 🥺💞

[astrofireworks]

HI I HAVEN’T LOGGED ONTO HERE IN TEN MILLION YEARS BUT YALL ASTRO GOT WEIBOS!!!!!!!!!!!

mj’s

jinjin’s 

eunwoo’s

rocky’s

sanha’s

#GUESS WHAT BITCHES ASTROFIREWORKS IS BACK AND BURNING LET'S GOOOOO #I HAVENT TRANSLATED FOR ASTRO IN TEN YEARS BC OF TANGRAM BUT LET'S GOOOOOOOOO #aM I GONNA SUB FOR THEM YOU BET I AM #vivi yells into the void

[tanqram]

TANGRAM - Stay With You 陪在你身边 (3rd Single) [ENG/中文 Lyrics]

#tangram #stay with you #陪在你身边 #idolproducernet #*subs #please thank summer and vivi for their beautiful translations 🌷

[mangomilkflower]

Lin Yanjun Weibo Update

Caption: 温暖的冬天。

#谢谢# ​​​

Trans: warm winter.

#Thank you#

#lin yanjun #yanjun #nine percent #nine percent translations #nine percent trans #nine percent scenarios #nine percent imagines #idol producer #idol producer translations #idol producer trans #idol producer scenarios #idol producer imagines #banana culture #tangram #trainee18 #cpop #weibo #update

[rqs902]

[TRANSLATION] Li Ruotian (@TGM-李若天) weibo update 07.27.18

▹ 昨日青空 (Crystal Sky of Yesterday) - You Zhangjing 

Hao-ge @TGM-LuDinghao Maybe everyone doesn't know All this time, you have actually been taking care of me in many ways. Rescuing my awkwardness, adjusting my mood, promoting my fashionable tastes. Happy birthday 🎂 May all your wishes surround you. Peace is in front of you, good health is behind you. Above you is sweetness, below you is satisfaction.  I hope you will be even younger and even more wonderful in the new year. I also hope that TANGRAM will get better and better. And that we will soon bring new, good, and perfect works to everyone. Love you❤️

#idol producer #idolproducernet #li ruotian #lu dinghao #tangram #trainee18 #translation #mine #ludinghao #liruotian #ahhhhhhh this is so sweet ahhh #97 line insisting that '可能大家不知道 其實一直以來你照顧我蠻多地方的' reminds me of how yanjun said people dont notice when dinghao is being serious #people may not notice that dinghao is a caring older bro despite his crazy sassy and ridiculous image #happy birthday #to my precious little sunshine #also ruotian taking the opportunity to promo zhangjings song ahh what a good little bro tho hes so supportive!! doesnt forget his zhangjing

[kleptonancydrew]

Nancy Drew and Education

So apparently the Clue Crew is full of teachers? Who knew. Well, as a former homeschooled student, current teacher, and (hopefully) future homeschooling parent/teacher I have been planning on integrating the games into lessons for a long time. Below the cut I have just a few of my many ideas (some more fleshed out than others). Feel free to use, adapt, or add your own! 

SCK:

-        Braille

o   How blind/vision impaired people navigate the world

§  How we can make it more accessible for them

o   How do braille books and printers work

-        ASL

o   Memorizing the alphabet and basic signs

§  Build up fluency

o   How HOH/deaf people navigate the world

§  How we can make it more accessible for them  

o   Connections of ASL to other signed languages

§  French Sign Language versus British Sign Language

-        Dangers of gas leaks

o   What to do if you smell or hear gas

-        Inequalities between mens and womens sporting opportunities

o   See Women’s Soccer

-        What are performance enhancing drugs

o   What is the difference between #steroids and the steroids your doctor might prescribe

-        How drug running is a gateway crime

-        Why blackmailing people isn’t good

-        More reasons to never move to Florida

-        Why you shouldn’t go to an actual high school part one

 STFD:

-        Television in NYC

o   Soap Operas

o   How television sets work

o   Role of director

o   Teleprompters

o   Props

o   Agents

-        Theatre in NY

o   Broadway

§  Learn a show

o   Carnegie Hall

-        Dangers in the ways we obsess over celebrities

o   Paparazzi

o   Stalkers

o   Respecting privacy

-        NY taxi system

-        NY regional accents

-        NY as a center for immigration – salad bowl

o   Ellis Island

-        History of NYC

o   Geography of NYC

-        Typewriters

-        Towers of Hanoi

-        Encoding  

-        How to make chocolates (with or without poison)

-        Read along:

o   New York the Novel (Edward Rutherford)

o   The Power Broker

o   All of a Kind Family

 MHM:

-        San Francisco Gold Rush

-        Earthquake and Fires in San Fran

-        Golden Gate Bridge

-        Angel Island

o   Asian (Chinese) Immigration to the USA

-        Chinese Zodiac

-        Fortune telling (and why it’s not okay)

-        Bed and Breakfasts

-        San Francisco today

o   Technology boom

o   Overpriced everything

§  How this hurts established residents

§  Homelessness in San Fran

-        Bandits in the American West

-        Hauntings in American buildings

-        How to remove and install tile

-        Renovations – refurbish something

-        Antiques

o   Visit an antique shop

-        Importance of fire safety

-        How to install lighting fixtures properly

-        How to fix a dumbwaiter

o   How not to be a dumb waiter

-        Tangrams

-        What is the Victorian period

o   Significance of Queen Victoria

-        Read Along:

o   Little Brother

o   Paper Son: Lee’s Journey to America

o   Angel Island Gateway to Golden Mountain

 TRT:

-        The French Revolution

o   Marie Antoinette

o   Women and the French Revolution

o   Worldwide effects of the Revolution

o   Historians of the French Revolution

-        Writing history

o   How we can focus on different events in history, how we can be sympathetic to certain people, how we can fulfill different spaces in the historical narrative, criticism of history as a field, entering history as a field

-        Wisconsin Dairy industry

-        Alarm systems and how they work

-        Fingerprinting

-        Elevator safety

-        Ski lifts

o   Skiing

-        Vandalism

-        Taking care of libraries

-        Latitude and longitude

-        Keeping records of good events and bad events

o   Nothing you do will ever stop me from loving you

-        Some people keep different sleep schedules

-        Journalism

-        Making translations  

-        Why France has different holidays – to keep the ski lodges from getting too full

 FIN:

-        History of theatre spaces

-        Use of film at theatres

-        Magicians

o   Houdini

o   Learn a ‘magic’ trick

-        Library of Congress

-        Demolition – wrecking balls

o   What’s involved

-        Plaster casts

-        Historic register of buildings

o   Visit a local historic building

-        Price of concessions and movie tickets today

-        Nickelodeons

-        Celebrity stunts for attention from press

o   Celebrity endorsements

-        Jazz music

o   Dancing

-        Kidnapping stories

o   What to do if someone tries to grab you

-        Rubber vs. electricity

-        Art/artists of the 20s

 SSH:

-        Numbering systems (particularly ones not based on 10)

-        Cultures of South America

o   Maya

§  Cultural understandings

§  Connections to what appears at Beech Hill

o   Aztec

o   Inca

-        Myths of lesser civilizations because of European preconceptions

-        Why do countries have consulates/embassies in other countries

-        What is amnesia and other medical memory issues

-        Provenance and why its important part one

-        Roles and responsibilities within a museum

o   Visit a museum

o   How to be critical of a museum and how knowledge is presented to you

-        Modern art

o   Make your own

o   Visit a modern art museum

-        Periodic Table of Elements

-        Positive and negative molds for casting

 DOG:

-        Prohibition

o   Speakeasys

o   Amendments to constitution

o   Drinking age restrictions

§  Comparison of USA to European countries  

o   Connections to modern drug policies

-        Recognizing and photographing local birds

-        Dangers in the forest – ticks and other pests

-        Why water sources are important

o   Flint water crisis

-        Visit a state park

o   Importance of maintaining public land

-        Alcatraz

-        How to care for dogs

-        Noise pollution

o   Light pollution

 CAR:

-        History of carousels

o   Visit a carousel

-        Lathes

-        Harmonicas

-        Band organs

-        Writing messages with lemon juice and other hidden inks

-        How to iron

o   How not to iron

-        How to make a sundae

-        How amusement park rides are designed

-        Soldering

-        What is parole

o   Welcoming those who have been in prison back to society

o   Problems with the American prison system

§  How it disproportionately affects minority groups

o   What can be done in prison reform

o   Abuses in prison

o   Making mental and spiritual help and guidance more available

o   Making sanitary products available

o   Prison for profit hurts everybody except the prison owner

o   Educational opportunities for those in prison

o   More half-way help

o   Juvenile sentencing reform – more out of system help

o   Respecting humanity of prisoners

o   Ending the death penalty  

-        Depression

o   How to get help

o   How to help others

o   Dealing with loss

DDI:

-        Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest

-        Orcas and other whales

o   Whaling industry in Northwest and Northeast

o   Things whale products were used for

o   Visit natural history museum with whale exhibition

-        Visit an aquarium with a good reputation

o   Problems with places that do not take care of their sea life – particularly large sea life like whales

-        What is a chowder and how is it made

o   Try or make chowder

-        Crabs

o   Restrictions on different types of crabs – what type is local

o   Try a crab dish

-        Importance of different knots  

o   Get some rope and learn how to tie different knots

-        Know the NATO alphabet and letter flags

-        Boating knowledge

o   Go on a boating trip – know the port and starboard sides

-        Learn how to kayak

-        Try to learn how to skip rocks

-        Visit a lighthouse

o   Importance and histories of lighthouses

-        Smuggling – what is it and why does it happen

-        Shanghaiing

-        Chess

 SHA:

-        The continuous oppression and mistreatment of Native Americans

o   From Mayflower to Pocahontas to Trail of Tears to Dakota to DAPL to Reservations to food deserts to voting rights to much much more

§  How to support current Native voices and concerns

o   Why Native Americans are not a costume

o   “Possession” of Native American objects and land

§  Arrowheads and native jewelry

o   Broad overview of regional Native American groups – using their own voices

§  Special focus on local Native American groups

·       Is there a local museum/educational resource that is either Native created or known for respecting Native voices

o   Current Native Americans of note (ex: politicians, activists, artists)

o   While the previous focuses on Native Americans in the modern day USA – also discuss First Nations from Canada and Native Groups from more southern areas

-        Why temperature and pan matters when baking (show what happens in the oven when it goes wrong)

-        Magnets and how different metals react differently to magnets

-        How to take care of a horse and other farm animals

o   Visit a local farm

o   Try horse-riding

-        Dangers of rattle snakes and scorpions

-        Lassos and how to use them

-        Legends of outlaws in the American West

-        Ghost towns  

-        Flower stitches when knitting/crocheting

-        Petrified wood

-        How to make a campfire

-        Picking fruits and veggies when they are ready

-        Flower language

-        Read Along:

o   Native American folk tales  

o   Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

o   Gone Away Lake

o   Black Beauty?

 CUR:

-        Where are the moors

-        Different regional accents within the United Kingdom

-        British foods

-        Latin

o   Learn fun phrases and prayers

-        Ancestry and genealogy

o   Map your own family tree and recognize family crests

o   How adoption has historically been a binding and irrefutable concept for lineage

o   Find places your family lived

o   Leaving a history for your descendants

§  Write a story book for them

o   British Royal Family

§  Why incest is bad

-        Parrots and their intelligence

-        Secret passages in old buildings

-        Alchemy

o   Connections to modern understandings of science  

o   Historical understandings of elements

-        Astrological signs

-        Witch trials

-        Legends of lycanthropy and other monsters

-        Importance of not taking other peoples medicines

-        Runic alphabet

-        Feeding your pets a healthy diet

-        Typing practice

-        How to embrace the idea that home taught students are evil geniuses

-        Forges and melting points of different metals

-        Carnivorous plants

-        Succulents

-        Constellations in different places  

-        Read Along:

o   The Secret Garden

o   The London Eye Mystery

o   Beastly

CLK:

-        Great Depression

o   Causes and effects

o   Who was hurt

o   Who was not hurt

o   Areas of America

§  Dust bowl

o   Famous people and literature

o   Homelessness and poverty

§  Bread lines

§  Soup kitchens

§  Anti-homelessness architecture

§  Connections to mental illness and veterans

§  How we can help those who do not have homes today

-        Early Telephones

-        Shakespeare

-        History of Nancy Drew

o   Mildred Wirt Benson

o   Edward Stratemeyer  

-        Fishing – why different fish respond to different bait

-        Orphanages in the early 20th century

-        Gas prices and accessibility of cars through time

-        How to make pie

-        What is jurisdiction and what is significant about crossing state lines

-        How do banks work

o   Safety deposit boxes

-        Identify theft

-        How to use a sewing machine

o   Sew an item of clothing

-        Mini golf – why and what

-        Mirrors and their usefulness

-        Stamp collections

-         

-        Radios and call signs

o   Comparison to modern internet forms

-        Telegrams

-        Read along:

o   Shakespeare

§  Midsummer Night’s Dream

§  Others

o   Pollyanna

o   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

o   The Grapes of Wrath

  TRN:

-        Trains

o   Steam trains

o   Visit a train museum

o   Take a train ride (if not a normal event)

o   Importance of transcontinental railway

o   Trains around the USA today

o   Trains around the world (TGV, bullet train)

-        Abraham Lincoln

-        Mark Twain

-        How to make a good burger (you leave off the PB&J)

-        Slugs

-        Periodic Table of Elements – abbreviations

-        Gemstones

-        History of Mining

o   England (Newcastle upon Tyne)

o   American West

o   Appalachia

o   Company Store

o   Health issues for miners

o   Danger of mines

o   Current issues for mining

-        Dancing the Hurley Burley

-        People who collect creepy dolls

o   History of porcelain dolls

-        Embroidery

o   How to

o   Patterns/symbols

-        General Stores in the American West

o   Sears

-        How to make taffy

-        Find a well maintained and beautiful tomb and research who is entombed

-        Focusing light through a magnifying glass can start a fire

-        Read Along:

o   Murder on the Orient Express

o   Mark Twain books

DAN:

-        All lessons in French

-        How using different ingredients and different amounts of ingredients can affect the outcome of your cookies

-        Paris métro

o   History

o   How to read/follow a métro map

o   RER

-        Montmartre and other Parisian neighbourhoods

-        History of Île de la France and Square de Vert Galant Parc and Pont Neuf

-        WWII and the French Resistance

o   Cross of Lorraine

o   Vichy France

o   Abuses of the French gov’t in this period

-        Paris and the fashion world

-        Beauty standards and the rejection of natural beauty by society

o   Dangers of weight and figure standards

o   You are beautiful as you are

-        Catacombs of Paris

-        Famous French Dishes (from this region)

o   Or Bretagne since I know and like them better

-        The French Café

-        Moulin in France

-        Tea and how hot leaf water can taste so bad but still be good for you

-        Buildings of Baron Haussmann

-        Paris History  

-        Decoders

-        Importance of vitraux historically, culturally, and religiously

-        Read Along:

o   Little Kids

§  Madeline

§  Babar

§  Petit Ours

§  Plume

o   High School

§  Hunchback of Notre Dame

§  Les Mis

§  Dale Van Kley

 CRE:

-        History of Hawai’i and her native people

o   How the USA screwed them over and continues to do so

§  Land colonizing today

o   Listen to voices from Native Peoples

-        Pearl Harbor

o   USS Arizona

-        Native myths and legends

-        Local flora and fauna

-        Surfing

-        How to make bead necklaces

-        Snorkeling

-        Entomology

o   Find some local bugs and identify and observe them

-        Horticulture

o   See if you can graft something

o   Watch a carnation placed in water with food dye

o   Regrow a fruit or veggie from the leftovers

-        Go looking for seashells – see how many complete shells you can find

-        Be aware of pesticides and the dangers they offer

o   Dangers of organic food too

-        Make something with pineapple in it

-        Fishing – different kinds of native fish

-        Volcanos

-        Hula  

  ICE:

-        Wolf sanctuaries – respecting wildlife and their place in the wild and not the domestic

o   What to do if you see a wolf in the real world

-        Fur trapping in Canada history

-        Regions and Capitols of Canada

o   Visit Canada?

-        How the Canadian government works

-        Use of French language in Canada    

o   Unique features of Canadian French  

-        Ice fishing

-        How to cook omelets, salmon, etc.

o   How to not add paprika cause like ew

-        Fossils

-        Radiation

o   Marie Curie

-        How to be a good maid

-        Snowballs/ice balls

-        Ice skating

-        Winter weather safety

-        Avalanches  

-        Saunas

-        Birthmarks

-        Fax machines

-        How to not lie about bird watching

-        Frozen water safety  

-        Modern offenses against First Nations by Canadian Government

  CRY:

-        Culture of the Arawak and Caraïbe

o   Voodoo

-        Mardi Gras in New Orleans

-        Hurricane Katrina and aftermath

-        French Influence

-        Eyes and their parts and functions

-        Teeth and their parts and functions

-        Alligators in the Southern USA and how they are dangerous pests  

-        Graveyards/cemeteries and how to be comfortable in them

o   Modern burial practices

o   Why are they above ground in Louisiana?

o   Places where they are running out of space for the dead

o   Historic violations of final resting places

-        Ventriloquism

-        Lizards and how to care for them

-        Rube Goldberg machines

-        Curio shops

-        Crystal Skulls  

 VEN:

-        International crime

-        Organized crime

-        Scopa

-        Italian basics

o   Learn an Italian aria

-        Italian food

o   Not just spaghetti

-        History of Venice

o   Current issues in Venice

-        Carrier pigeons

-        Micro-dots

-        “Observing the architecture”

-        Try to make gelato (or just get gelato, either way you get gelato)

-        Disguising yourself – put on an outfit and try to get me to not recognize you

-        Picking locks

-        Secret codes

-        Solfege

o   With hand signs

o   Learn a song in solfege

-   ��    Carnivale

-        Learn how the sausage gets made

o   How to deal with food poisoning

-        How to secure your living space against burglars

o   Glass breaks, motion sensors, keypads, magnets, and more

-        Read Along:

o   Heist Society

o   The Prince

o   Merchant of Venice

  HAU:

-        Irish lessons (as much of this in Irish as possible)

o   Why the Irish language is important

-        Geography of Ireland

o   Provinces and counties

-        Irish names

-        Why Ireland has disliked and should dislike the UK

o   Historically

o   Famine

§  Emmigration

o   Easter Rising

o   Troubles

o   Present-Day

-        Importance of alcohol in Ireland

o   Uisce beatha

o   Guinness

§  Guinness world records

-        Irish music

o   Irish instruments

o   Learn some Rebel songs

-        Ogham runes

-        Irish foods

o   Something with lamb, who cares what

-        Don’t use friends for land development

-        Bogs

-        Chemical Reactions

-        Rockets

-        Inventions and secrecy during WWII

-        Religion in Ireland

o   Pagan traditions

o   Christianity

o   Catholic/Protestant tensions

-        Irish wedding traditions

-        How printing presses work

-        Irish castles

-        Sheep sheering/raising sheep

-        Irish legends

o   Fae

o   Leprechauns

-        Don’t drive and talk on the phone

 RAN:

-        Why blackface is problematic? (the fact that this needs to be said is problematic in and of itself)

-        Scuba diving

-        Sailing

-        Bermuda Triangle

-        Bats

-        Primates and their intelligence

o   Problems with animal research

o   Koko

o   Jane Goodall

-        Island resort culture

-        Metal detectors

-        Pirates

o   And the Caribbean

o   Their abuses

o   Different kinds

o   Modern day pirates  

-        How do walkie-talkies work

-        US mistreatment of island territories

-        Read Along:

o   Bloody Jack (Meyer)

 WAC:

-        Edgar Allan Poe

o   Stories

o   Baltimore

-        Piano

-        Victorian Dining traditions

o   How to set a place for fancy dining

o   How to fold napkins

o   Table manners

o   How to serve someone at a fancy dinner

o   How courses might work

o   How to use your silverware  

-        Why you shouldn’t go to an actual high school part two

o   Just fyi – that’s not how uniforms work

§  Have a school inspired dress code for a week

-        Bullying and why you absolutely will not be a bully

o   How to respond to bullying

o   Importance of talking to adults and counseling

-        Logic puzzles

-        Research the founding of a local school

-        Stringed Instruments

-        Plagiarism

o   Turnitin

-        Making sandwiches – like a good deli style sandwich

-        Photography scavenger hunt – make a digital (or physical) yearbook

-        Squirrels

-        Orthographic projection

-        DNA/RNA

-        Saving every major project on three different thumb drives

-        Getting along with roommates

-        States and Capitals

o   Countries and capitals of the world  

 TOT:

-        Tornados

o   Technology used to observe tornados

-        Meteorology

-        Prairie dogs

-        Life on the great plains

-        Great Plains Native Americans

-        Small towns in the Midwest honestly be like that

-        Defensive driving

-        Make a disaster kit

-        Know what to do in various natural emergency situations

o   What is the local alert protocol

o   What do local authorities recommend

-        How to maintain and fix a car

-        How to fix a broken device

-        What is tenure

-        How to budget

o   Go to the grocery store on a strict budget (however much you come in under budget is your candy budget)

-        Read Along:

o   Little House

  SAW:

-        Basic Japanese phrases

o   Learn to count

o   Writing in Japanese

-        Sudoku, nonograms, renograms

-        Japanese ghost legends

-        Japanese culture

o   Tourism

§  Ryokans

o   Space – everything small

o   Politeness/formalities

o   Hot springs/baths

o   Tatami and paper walls

-        Japanese cultural dress

o   Kimonos

o   Lolita? Fashion

-        Japanese names

o   Last name first

o   How to address others in Japan

-        Martial Arts

o   Ninjutsu

§  Traditional tools

-        Japanese tea ceremony

-        Schools in Japan

-        Teaching English as a foreign language

-        Japanese subway/train system

-        Pachinko and Japanese gaming

-        Japanese vending machines

-        Robotic animals

-        Bento

-        Japanese foods

-        Origami

-        How to fake a haunting

 CAP:

-        Basic German phrases

o   How to make a German word

o   Connections of German to English

-        German food favourites

o   Especially cakes

-        Storytelling as a cultural entity

o   How memory has worked differently in different times

-        Glass blowing

-        How castles provided for the local community

-        Bavaria in Germany

o   Cultural dress

-        Glockenspiel

-        How to make board games

-        Monster stories of central Europe

-        How to monitor security camera remotely

-        Read Along:

o   Heidi

ASH:

-        Arson

o   Watching how different accelerants burn a piece of paper

-        All politicians are at least somewhat self-serving

o   But write a letter to a local politician anyway

§  Different ways to contact elected officials, and why some don’t work

-        How to make ice cream

-        How a police investigation works

o   Problems with police departments around the world – specifically USA

o   Ways that police work unfairly targets minorities

§  If Nancy is innocent how many others are

-        How to use matches and lighters safely

-        Why you should not return to the scene of a crime – particularly a fire

-        Making sure smoke detectors work properly and the system is connected

o   We might not go to school but fire drills are still important

-        What is a mass spectrometer

-        Who to call if you’ve been arrested

-        What to do if you get pulled over

-        How the media can skew the truth and make their own narratives

-        Sound mixing

-        Be careful with what you say/post/record

o   Keep receipts and clarify when possible

 TMB:

-        What not to do at an archaeological site

-        Ancient Egyptian History

o   Pantheon, notable figures, relevant events

o   Pyramids, sphinx

o   Pharaohs

-        Modern Egypt

o   Arabic alphabet

-        History of archaeological digs in Egypt

o   Why they’ve been problematic

-        Dangers of the tombs

-        Mummys

o   How they are put together

-        Tomb raiders

-        Importance of water in the desert

-        How to piece together a broken artifact

-        How to gently brush off an artifact

-        There is no such thing as a dictionary for ancient Egyptian

-        Aliens did not build the pyramids

-        Senet

-        Desert life safety

-        How mirrors can be used to light a room

-        Read Along

o   Rick Riordan

 DED:

-        Nikola Tesla

o   All his fun stuff

o   Tesla Coils

-        3-D printing

-        Gummy fingerprints

-        Faraday Cage

-        Basic electric concepts

o   How to build a circuit board

-        Chemical safety

-        How a lab might work

-        Valuing different skills within academia

-        Ultraviolet light

-        How motorcycles work

-        Freelance photography

-        How to use academic databases

 GTH:

-        Slavery in the United States

o   Origins

o   ‘End’

o   Civil War

o   The connection to “southern culture”

o   Continued abuses of Black people in America

§  Importance of recognizing Black voices and what they are saying

§  Listening even when it’s uncomfortable

§  Checking privilege when you have it

o   Jim Crow Laws

-        Plantations

-        Gone With the Wind

o   The good and the bad

-        Civil War spies – female

-        Carbon monoxide poisoning

-        Burned out houses are not a safe space

-        Do not go digging through people’s coffins – rest in PEACE

-        Understanding that your family can be flawed

-        If you don’t want to get married, if you’re not happy in a relationship, end it

-        When a member of your family is sick you take care of them

-        Make a will, just in case your cousin kills you

-        Bachelor and bachelorette parties should feature activities that everyone is comfortable with

-        Read Along:

o   My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier

 SPY:

-        Scotland and their identity

o   Celtic Nations

o   Independent Scotland

o   Call a Scottish person

-        Unicorns and other mythical creatures in Scotland

-        Scottish food

o   The appetizing parts

-        History of spies

-        Biowarfare

o   Code Orange

o   Other teenage stories dealing with anthrax

o   Current events and concerns

o   Historical biowarfare (smallpox blankets)

-        Ziplining

-        Archery

-        How to bug someone

-        Tartans and plaids

o   Kilts

-        Augmented Reality Glasses

-        Record players

-        How to reset a circuit breaker

-        Read Along:

o   Gallagher Girls

o   Code Orange

o   Little House (Martha)

o   Little Brother (Doctorow)

 MED:

-        Don’t meet your heroes

-        New Zealand

o   Maori culture

-        Survivor style game shows and realism

-        I’m not saying Aliens can’t exist, I’m saying they def aren’t involved here

-        Kayaking

-        Submarines and what they can do

-        Turtles

-        Earthquakes

-        Be careful with rope bridges

  LIE:

-        Provenance and why it’s important part two  

-        Greek art and how it was originally painted vibrantly

o   Abuses of Greek art through the ages

-        The British Museum and the issues with that

-        Greek pantheon

o   Legends and notable figures

o   Religious traditions  

-        Iliad and Odyssey

-        Art forgery

-        How to fire clay pots and pottery

-        Memorizing lines for a play

o   Staging for a play

o   Role of a director

-        Theatre

o   Lights

o   Curtains

o   Fly system

o   Sound

-        Greek alphabet

-        Historical importance of the Greek language and culture

o   Alexander the Great and Hellenization

-        Olympics

o   Historic and modern

-        Greece and the European Union  

-        Make something with pomegranates

-        Read Along:

o   Iliad

o   Odyssey

o   The Thief

o   Percy Jackson  

  SEA:

-        Iceland

o   Culture

§  Naming traditions

o   Language

o   Music

o   Food

-        Shipbuilding

o   Historic and modern ships

-        Ice caving

-        Northern Lights

-        Tides

-        Snowmobiling

-        Poetry

-        What is xenophobia

 MID:

-        Some games just shouldn’t be made

-        American witch trials

o   What actually went down

o   Misconceptions

-        Treating people with albinism as real people

-        Arson is bad

-        Herbal remedies and how they can interfere with modern medicine

-        Witchcraft and how not to

-        Salem MA

-        Ignorance promotes fear and hatred so we do our best to learn about others

#Nancy Drew Games #Clue Crew #Teaching #Education #Nancy Drew

[kidsgamesonline07-blog]

Top 5 Benefits of Playing Online Games for Children

If they don't understand it at the moment, children enjoy practicing their memory and recognition skills while playing fun games. Now, more schools are incorporating memory games as a way to help children's brains remain alert, improve their concentration, increase aid cognitive improvement and their memory ability into their curricula versions. Memorization games are based on sound science and are considered one of the best methods of ensuring that our brains are functioning at their optimum. They have even been found to have beneficial effects on kids in terms of raising remember, attention, brain activity, working memory, their cognitive development, and studying performance. Allowing your kids to play memory matching games online has benefits that are exceptional, such as:

1. Improves a child's critical thinking abilities

Sharpening a child's thinking abilities means he or she will have the aptitude make decisions, and create new ideas, ask questions, attempt to make sense of things, organize so forth and information. Memory games are also good for visual memory help. A child's capacity to store and retrieve memories, even when the stimuli that first evoked them exists, and without assistance is a crucial aspect of reading, writing, spelling, such as developing mathematical skills. Kid's whose memory has developed could be trained with assorted memory games.

2. Exercise for the brain

Interesting android and iPhone games are like having a personal trainer for a child's mind that's developing at a fast speed. They can help strengthen skills like social skills, good eye contact, communication, reaction time, pattern recognition, and much more. Skill development is vital as a child matures, since he or she is able to not only find new information, but to also recall, think seriously, and process what they learn and employ it in a progressive manner.

3. Sharpen problem-solving skills

Memory fitting games that involve strategy help sharpen a child's problem-solving abilities, memory, and analytical thinking skills, communication, understanding that is general, concentration skills, even patience. Imagine you assemble flat-pack furniture in a matter of minutes, or as an adult attempting to solve even a Tangram puzzle or the Rubik's cube? With the ideal memory card game, children can improve their work-related skills, consequently enhancing their mind capacity, concentration, communication, and social skillsstrengthen abilities that are visual, as well as their numeric abilities.

4. Improve spatial abilities

Excellent reasoning abilities in kids are directly linked to skills that were great; in fact children are more likely to pursue careers in areas like engineering and architectural designs. Nevertheless, the fantastic thing is that even those without these abilities can benefit them through enjoying structured games that involve a great deal of rotating, moving, and placement bits.

5. Enhance visual perception

Visual acuity plays a very important role in a child's capacity to identify, understand, assess, and translate one set of different objects from others such as logos, letters, colors, forms, shapes, patterns, size, etc.. Memorization games can aid in improving visual abilities in a child, to a point where they have the ability to outcomes with little. Such games can also help improve language and vocabulary.

In conclusion

As you can see, playing memory games includes lots of unique advantages, and there are lots of games on Browsergames that your little one can perform with to train his or her little mind, fortify their muscle memory, sharpen their analytical thinking skills, learn patience, enhance focus and much more. Start indulging yourself and your child with fun games for adults and kids don't forget you have to work tomorrow and your kid needs to be in bed.

#Kids Games

[worldhistoryfacts]

Chinese tangram puzzles and solutions, ca. 1815. Tangram (the original Chinese name qiqiaoban translated to ”seven boards of skill”) was invented as a game in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The game was brought to America and Europe around the time of the publication of this book and became a very popular fad.

{WHF} {HTE}

#history #tangram #puzzle #china

[zhangpdf]

Story Time: Mirthe and Summer go see Tangram, part 2

here we are again five months after part 1, one day before part 3

i had basically accepted that i wouldn’t see tgm again during my year in china

but!!! the amazing @91percentchaoze did it once again and got me to see our boys

and this time was even more magical than last time

so we went to the 酷狗show idk what it’s called 

so first i want to mention TangramSubs翻译组 made these kickass focus banners and these cute af keychains that everyone wanted

so at first Summer and I were just sitting at a cafe having a drink

and she told everyone who wanted a banner to come find the foreigner with the pink hair (aka me)

but nobody found us so we went back and the banners were gone like immediately just in case y’all didn’t believe me abt how amazing the banners were

and so we stayed at the entrance of the venue, collecting more banners waiting to go in

but like… for the venue we had to go upstairs, but we were waiting downstairs and next to the stairs was an entrance to the parking lot

and summer was like doing something on her phone 

when suddenly i looked behind her and saw a wild jingzuo appear

and i subtly told summer tO LOOK UP BC TGM IS LITERALLY EBHIND HER

they just walked by to go inside, and everyone was so chill just staring at them taking pics, saying hi 

meanwhile the bodyguard or whatever was pretending we were jumping them holding us back for no reason it was kind of funny

and summer swears honglin recognized me i refuse to believe that but i also want to believe that

so then after a while (and more people asking summer for banners) we went inside

and got front row bitchachos

so the rest u can all see in the livestream but i’m still gonna tell u everything live with it

so we sat there, front row with summer’s way too bright 超 sign

and when they came up, after radiant chaoze saw us and waved at us and honglin smiled at us and i made direct eye contact with the demon lrt for a solid 20 seconds

so they had to fill in that thingie, chaoze asked the audience to sing for him it was so cute 

the mc also asked people to touch qzx’s chest which i think should’ve been summer but the mc did it himself in the end, that man living the dream

and yeah they were overall the funniest cutest boys the entire time

i’m still mad abt how great jingzuo’s make up was????

they asked fans to go on stage and play games with them several times

and of course summer was like U HAVE TO GO MIRTHE!!!!

the first game I wouldve been able to do I guess but it wouldve been awkward probs bc they wouldve expected me to know the western songs but lol no

and teh second game was guessing a chinese word so ha no and the words were really difficult so

but chaoze always kinda went mmmmm foreigner? no this game is in chinese

so!!!! then they needed 2 people to come on stage again 

and summer of course was pointing at me like crazy again

but as i hadnt been paying attention i didn’t know what was going on

so when chaoze first looked at me like ‘you want to?’ i was like wait summer what’s going on

but nobody wanted to and chaoze kept asking me jkjadkgjk so i went on stage

and they wanted to learn us the dance to 陪在你身边 (quite problematic because i cannot dance!!)

and csjkgjdf chaoze was the cutest boy ever he kept looking back like “GOT IT? :DDDDD” no but i can’t tell u that to ur face bc ur too cute

and uwu honglin came to my side of the stage to translate for me and the entire time he kept smiling at me and i legit could cry he really shouldnt have i’m even more in love with him now help me

and at this one point he asked me if i was ok when i looked at him a bit lost and i swear i died right there and then ripping my heart out giving it to him

chaoze was just so excited to teach us and it was so hard jfdkgd but it was so much fun and even tho we sucked he looked so proud of us lmao 

and just he kept smiling at us excitedly and i just wanted to smooch his cute face right there he’s such a baby 

and then we did it on music and honglin told me ‘it’s a little bit faster’ and i gave him the side eye like binch it probably is a lot faster and i already forgot the steps but thank u for translating/telling me i love u sm (i’m vc i swear)

and i was right it was a lot faster and i forgot half the steps but they still told me i did good and i looked at everyone like mm binch and honglin just smILED more and i’m so angry stop smiling at me i’m sO WEAK 

this is a mess but it took me forever to be able to write this and summer please add everything I forgot bc i think it’s pretty clear that this time I’m the mess and you’re the one who kept things together

#tangram #lin chaoze #bei honglin #li ruotian #gao maotong #jiang jingzuo #qiu zhixie #mirthe and summer go see tangram #and this waaas.... #20190413

[warehouse13pod]

Show Notes 106 "Burnout"

What’s that on your back, Agents?

This is the second, improved attempt for Tumblr users

As always, you can click here or you can click play on the embedded player below to listen to this week’s episode as you read through the show notes.

We kicked off this week talking about writing teams, because this week’s Writer Appreciation Corner focuses on the duo of Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia. We’ll be issuing a formal correction in the podcast for 108, but I mistakenly said that writing teams were paid a full salary each. I was incorrect! And Stephen Scaia himself was kind enough to correct me!

This is important, because 1) we always want to give you the most accurate and complete information we can 2) this is not the only time or the only writing team we will be dealing as we make our way through Warehouse 13 together.

Miranda and I discussed how our podcasting partnership mirrors that of a writing team. Often it seems that we share a brain, and we’re always super supportive of each other.

Moral of the story? Get yourself a BFF like this.

We talked a little about how this episode had a darker, more X-Files-esque tone. We thought it worked really well for this episode but wasn’t sustainable in the long term, because who would want to tone down this fun energy?

We also talked a bit about how much we loved the whole team behind this episode for letting the mystery play out for us instead of relying on formulaic storytelling techniques. We liked how it showed a trust in the audience to be smart enough to follow a more complex narrative.

Leave a comment below about how you feel about these things!

Miranda pointed out the retro-futurist implications of the massive library-style card catalogue in the Warehouse 13 office.

My personal head-cannon is that they write information about new artifacts on cards and then the data automatically transfers to the digital display screens in front of each artifact in the stacks.

We mentioned that Artie and Claudia’s relationship as well as the conflict between his luddite ways and her more technology-driven approach to life gave us strong Willow-Giles vibes.

Yes, that is another Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference. #NoRegrets

After Claudia’s adorable *big reveal* of her hologram projection machine…

…Artie realizes that she’s used something called a “Bell and Howell Spectroscope.” You can find out more about that here. And you can learn about how that figures into Claudia’s hologram projector here! This whole website a great resource for all Warehouse 13 fans looking to learn a bit more about the artifacts we don’t get to talk as much about one the podcast.

In the episode, Miranda calls Claudia a necessary “fly on [Artie’s] butt” and explained that it was a reference to a Platonic philosophy. Miranda was referring to the concept of a “social gadfly.” It is the most perfect way to describe Claudia and Miranda is, as always, brilliant for thinking of the exact right term.

When Claudia smacks her hologram projector, she refers to the process as “percussive maintenance,” which is a term that anybody who lived through the 1990s and early 2000s would consider quite useful. (We all did this all the time)

Even though Artie didn’t acknowledge Claudia’s brilliance as she deserved, Claudia didn’t let it get her down! Listeners and readers, my wish for us all is that we have the confidence of Claudia! Let us not depend on others for external validation, but be kind enough to ourselves to recognize our own strengths.

(But also, don’t be Artie. When someone does something great, let them know! Everyone like compliments!)

Regarding another turn of phrase, we mention that Claudia says she “upgraded the whole megillah.” Here’s some information about that phrase here and more information about what the megillah is here and here.

Claudia realizes that the tattoo on the body of the as-yet unnamed warehouse agent is a marine symbol, but I’m not sure we get a super clear view of it. So here’s an image of what that symbol looks like.

Moving forward, we talked about the cool luggage carousel-like thing and how that brought up some major Star Trek: The Next Generation vibes.

Specifically mentioned the Holodeck and Moriarty.

We talk about Rebecca being amazing by offering Pete some cookies and we get this great pop of emotional brightness when Pete takes all the cookies!!!! One of the best moments of the whole episode.

Miranda used her amazing brain to highlight the amazing items on Artie and Claudia’s brainstorming board. The items are listed below and hyperlinked to more information about what they are/might be:

Babylonian Battery (wikipedia info here)

Teller’s Microfusion Reactor - Likely an artifact that they were brainstorming might exist based on the life and works of Edward Teller.

The Dayton Project

Gilbert’s Headstone Amber - This one took some digging to figure out! So, William Gilbert was 16th century physician, philosopher, and physicist (say that five times fast!) who is one of the people who invented the term electricity, and he used amber both as in his physical research into electricity but also as a metaphor for electric attraction. Whoever wrote that item on the chalkboard is a genius who really does their research!

Thunderer of the Nite—now I can’t see miranda’s notes, so it could have said “nite,” but I couldn’t find anything about that. What I could find was information about something called Thunderer of the Nile.

Magnetohydrodynamic Generator

Faraday

(this one reminds me of Fringe and all the Faraday cages)

ELF transmitted through Kennedy HH… (we couldn’t get the whole item there)—ELF likely refers to Extremely Low Frequency but I have no idea about the second part.

…and last but not least, the Egg of Columbus! Why did I save this one for last? Well, because I think it’s the funniest. Also, because there are three possible answers. The most likely answer is Tesla’s Egg of Columbus. But I talked with friend-of-the-show Tobie James, and she shared two other fun things that could be described as “Eggs of Columbus.” The first is the actual egg mentioned in the story of the previous link, and the second refers to puzzles of both the tangram and mechanical variety.

Thanks to Miranda and her amazing brain for capturing this list so we could ogle at the brilliance of whoever in the Art Department is responsible for this amazing and detailed background imagery. Thanks for being our Artie/Watcher, Miranda.

Yes, that is another Buffy reference! #TakeAShotEveryTimeWeReferenceBuffy #YoudBeVeryDrunk

After this, we figure out that this is called the “Spine of Saracen.” And we would like to wholeheartedly thank our amazing Expert of the Week, Dr. Suleiman Ali Mourad. He illuminated a lot of information about the term Saracen and its Crusade-age origins.

Dipping into some ~heavy themes~

Please be mindful of how you use the term “Saracen” in daily life. If you’re unsure of how to use it, don’t use it at all. Dr. Suleiman referred to the fact that it’s not always a negative term, but it can be as offensive as the N-word. Personally, I wouldn’t use it to refer to anything other than Matt Saracen of Friday Night Lights. (But seriously, though. Please don’t use the word if you’re at all concerned it could be misconstrued as offensive.)

Anyway, we talk a little bit with him and with each other about how the Islamic Golden Age flourished years before the European Renaissance. It didn’t make the final cut of the episode, but we talked a little bit about how the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) led to Eastern nations of the ancient world inheriting the important cultural works of the Greco-Roman Empire—which meant inheriting the words of Galen, the originator of most medical and nutritional knowledge in the world until the modern era. We’re talking the dominant source of knowledge for literally thousands of years. So, while the nations flourishing the the Islamic Golden Age advanced medical knowledge, Western Europe lost most of that knowledge and was plunged into the Dark Ages. You can learn more about this from a source we referenced in our 101A and B Show Notes, Food: A Cultural Culinary History by Dr. Ken Albala. More purchase options linked in the 101 A and B Show notes linked above.

Dr. Mourad talked about how this Islamic Golden Age was heavily tied to the Translation Movement in the Islamic Civilization of the age. This is a fascinating subject that I did not know about before Miranda spoke with Dr. Mourad.

That’s what I have for this week.

Hope you’re buzzed for the next ep, Agents.

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