The Lone Ranger

Read about the film we're all going to see next year! Where did the Western as a genre come from anyhow?

And while we're on the subject, see if you can answer this question. Who is Natty Bumppo?

Water Lives

'Water Lives..."is a science communication animation designed to draw attention to the important (yet largely invisible) life that underpins and sustains our freshwater ecosystems. Produced by Paul Jepson and Rob St.John at the Oxford University School of Geography and the Environment for BioFresh - a European Union project on freshwater biodiversity - the animation brings artists and scientists together to collaborate and communicate the concept that freshwater is more than an inert resource: instead a living, dynamic system inhabited by beautiful, important organisms largely unseen by the naked eye.'''

Read the write-up and see the animation here.

Ingenious solutions

When you don't have a limb, and can't grow one back, then make one.

Simon's cat

For the illustrators, here's how Simon draws the cat.

Non violent communication

Look at the NVC lists - when human needs are fulfilled and when those needs are not fulfilled.

What do you think?

The education debate continues

But can we stop having that debate about school versus home?

Education extends from radical unschooling in all matters living and breathing, through to vaguely autonomous, via a bit of strewing, bypasses my parental concern about the GCSEs/A levels, goes by CGP books, takes a turn to school-at-home, can stop at private tutors, flexi-school, alternative provision, college, full-time school, and passes back round to Internet school.

You choose.

The alligator in the shop

Like the red and white striped pole signified a barber's shop, what shop would display a model alligator?

Answer here.

Scale of the universe

Travel down, beyond the size of the cell, to quantum foam, string theory and yoctometer.

Then up again, beyond the planets, to the other side of the universe.

Use the scroll bar or click as you go. The Scale of the Universe 2.