And have a happy new year!

Bye for 2014, McAuliffe!

Our first semester of Web Design and Scratch are over!

Check out the kids' websites! (And a reminder to Scratch kids, send me your programs if you want to show them off!)

Also, check out this guy using two robotic limbs at once! Technology is amazing.

Expanding hagfish slime

Science 3-5, as promised, here are the videos about hagfish and their amazing slime.





Also, remember the makeup class is next Monday and if you can't make it, you need to pick up the worksheet and cabbage juice now.

Happy Holidays!

Hi everyone!

Today's food was gingerbread cookies (from a mix) and hot chocolate with extra cocoa powder. Cocoa is thought to have health benefits, including improving brain functioning.

And here's a video of a swimming anglerfish! Although people have examined numerous dead anglerfish, this video shows one swimming naturally in her normal habitat.

Glasswing butterflies

Today's food was cranberry sauce muffins. There's also a whole grain, oats, brown sugar version over at Serious Eats.

And now, here are lots of glasswing butterfly pictures. Scientists are still not sure how or why the wings are transparent.

Cookie videos

Hey everyone!

Today's food was storebought cookies for the animation kids over at Ashland library. Check out their videos!

Today's science fact is the slingjaw wrasse's existence.

You can probably tell why it's called that.

The slingjaw wrasse's telescoping jaw doesn't just bring the mouth closer to the prey. It actually creates suction, pulling in their food.

Mind-controlled robot arms!

Doesn't that look amazing? This is a robot hand that can sense the electric pulses in muscles, so people who've lost their hands can put it on and control it just by thinking what they want, and there are even tiny motors provide feedback to the existing so they can "feel" how hard they're gripping.



Today's food was crumb-topped apple pumpkin pie, minus the crumbs. I chose this pie because the very first published recipe for pumpkin pie was to cut up chunks of pumpkin, mix it with slices of apple and sugar, and bake. What we call pumpkin pie today was originally called pumpkin pudding.