A rolling science cart with a heat lamp on top and a ruler balanced with a paper bag hung on each end. Above the cart is a white board with a drawing of the ruler and paper bags, labeled bag 1 and bag 2, and a written explanation. "1. Two bags with the same amount of air. Same air=Same Weight. 2. The heat lamp caused temperature to increase in bag 1. 3. Increased heat -> air expand -> Some air left bag. 4. Less air = less weight -> bag 1 went up"

"Ms. G, how do you memorize all that?"

"I don't memorize it. I know it."

#edusky #middleschool

Three run homers are my favorite.

Forty minutes in and I want every parent of a young athlete to listen to this. So much good stuff.

The fans who act like ballplayers give up their right to be human when they sign a big contract are so infuriating.

@void.comind.network can you read the post above this one?

Close up of the head and front legs of a juvenile Diamondback Terrapin. The distinctive black and light grey skin pattern and her clawed feet are shown.

Megatron the Diamondback Terrapin weighed 8 grams when she first came to our classroom in October. She weighs 130 grams today. She's seven weeks and one day away from being released back to the Chesapeake Bay.

Can I tag the void in Megatron posts to keep it up to date, or does it need you to give it directions?

(I do not understand the Void.)

How long does it take Megatron to catch a fish? Less time than it takes me to get the bag open. (Video shows footage of a Diamondback Terrapin catching and eating a live fish.)

From the Maryland zoo, yes. I don't know about any other zoos. You can also see penguins in Australia and New Zealand but I don't know of anyone who allows you to pet the little penguins there.

We did the penguin encounter a few years back for a kid's birthday. If you sit on the ground the penguins will hop right in your lap and their feathers are the softest things you can imagine.

Four is a perfectly cromulent number of hymns for a funeral.

Told my teenager a couple of stores about my day today. His response was "You have to get a different job."

I'm case you were wondering how school is going.

Celery stalks in Erhlenmeyer flasks with blue water in the bottom. The necks of the flasks are stuffed with cotton balls to keep the water from evaporating around the celery. The only way out is through. This celery was in front of an electric fan. There was also a group under light and a control group.

The leaves of the fan celery after about an hour. Blue food coloring is starting to collect in the leaves as the water transpires (evaporates from the plant.)

The leaves of the fan celery the next morning. There is significantly more blue deposited in the leaves.

One of the most basic of classroom experiments, but it looks cool. Provides an opportunity to talk about the properties of water, the structure of plants, and the water cycle. Would love to do this with white flowers, one per student, but that's $$$

I'm not looking for a DMin, but how would you do quantitative research on preaching?

This article got both likes and comments at the time including other good stories, but they were all eaten by a big software upgrade. I guess I should be happy the article itself survives.

The story of Caleb Joseph, an invitation to the new fan | Camden Chat If you are a fan of baseball you have been told, more than once, by fans of some other sport that baseball is boring. If you choose to engage these poor, unfortunate souls, you might start talking abo...

I like statistics, but I'm not great at keeping them in my head. What I love about baseball is the stories. I wrote this eleven years ago. All the faces have changed, but it's still the reason baseball is great. www.camdenchat.com/post/FEPf1Q2...

You know how some men claim that they're afraid to even talk to women at work? GOOD. Live in fear.

GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign from Congress House members were set to vote this week on expelling both the San Antonio Republican and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. Gonzales’ announcement came shortly after Swalwell said he would step down.

Also good. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/13/t...

Swalwell to resign from Congress The California Democrat had been accused of sexual misconduct, which forced him to suspend his campaign for governor.

Good

www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

He's not an Everyman who just tells it like it is. He's not rough around the edges with a heart of gold. He's showing us that he's not ready to approach the needs of people different from him with thought or compassion. He shouldn't go to jail, but he shouldn't go to Congress either.

It's lovely outside.

@actualkatherine.bsky.social , less cute, more focused predator.

A juvenile Diamondback Terrapin swims in her tank, her focus intent on a bag of small feeder fish, riby red minnows, being held at her eye level outside of the tank.

Today Megatron begins training for her return to the Chesapeake Bay by hunting live prey. As you can see she was eager for me to stop taking pictures and dump the fish in the tank. Her first hunt was wildly successful and she'll be getting more fish every Monday.

Probably Russian, because bots. And those pics are probably AI. No humans detected.

Mine organizes a community yard sale that funds a scholarship. But it's entirely made up of volunteers and has no dues.

Hungary election results live: Orbán concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority Veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orbán conceded defeat after a landslide election victory by the upstart opposition Tisza party, in a setback for his allies in Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump'...

Somebody tell all those "center right" folks who "didn't vote for this" that you can just punt the crazy men to the curb. www.reuters.com/world/hungar...

Latino Guys Are Very Interesting | Marcello Hernandez YouTube video by Stand Up Comedy Tv

The algorithm gave me this. youtube.com/shorts/kdU_G...

Huh, that's weird. Pablo Manríquez, of the tiny news outlet @migrantinsider.bsky.social, published an excellent story naming Nilufar Yasmin, the woman who was killed, with many details on what happened.

@pabloreports.bsky.social scooped all of these major outfits!

I would buy one of each and be set for every game.

What's with the Oakland colors?