zymoglyphia: February 2012

29 Feb 2012

Learn how to make a merman

Get going with that wire, papier mache and balsa wood. I want a merman!

23 Feb 2012

Race to the bottom of the sea

Who can explore the profound depth of the Marina Trench? Start from here, with the BBC.

11 Feb 2012

Photographer Samuel Aranda wins the World Press Photo of the Year award for the New York Times. He captured a moment of a veiled woman holding a wounded man, following a demonstration in Yemen.

See the photograph, and others, at the World Press Photo site.

2 Feb 2012

Who lived here?

I told Tiger how in school, pupils do lessons in stuff we do everyday, like personal, social, and health education.

Tiger thought about that.

Then she said, I want a place where you put up assignments in citizenship.

I thought about that.

I have come up with this. It's probably not entirely citizenship. It will be that, plus a house of online curiosities for Tiger and her sisters.

Sometimes it will cover much the same ground as a conventional PSHE lesson.

Sometimes it will just be a place to collect ideas, whimsy, and odd stuff I'd like to share. It may be that this is what we might call being a person, or being a citizen.

I don't know. I don't expect it will make any sense unless you are Tiger, Shark, or Squirrel, and sitting round my kitchen table.

Back to grit's day.