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Oxford Days 6-1
The final six days of links to explore from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! NASA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Funded by NASA, managed by CalTech, the JPL pioneered robotic space exploration. The website features podcasts, images, videos and audio. You can read about the latest news and active space missions. Oxford offers a related flexible online…
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Oxford Days 11-7
Another five days to look for intriguing web-bits to explore from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! Centre Pompidou Inspired by French President George Pompidou in 1969 – a vast collection of artworks and a focus on learning opportunities and development of artists and cultural events, housed in a visually unappealing building – home of National…
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Oxford Days 16-12
Exploring another quintette from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! National Museums Liverpool – 8 museums and galleries located around Liverpool that grew from a donation of the 13th Earl of Derby’s natural history collection in 1851 If you get a chance to visit in person, in Liverpool, entry to all venues is free (although donations…
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Oxford Days 21-17
A brief hiatus helping out a friend to get to Tofino. Plunging into the next 5 days – from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! Copan Ruinas – an ancient Mayan city filled with people, art and agriculture that thrived from 426CE to 822 CE…and then abruptly ended. On the Solstice in 2024, Oxford instructors encouraged…
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Oxford Days 26-22
Another series of days to explore – from Oxfords’ Festive Countdown Calendar 2024! Inside a Genius Mind: A collaboration between Emeritus Professor Martin Kemp, Google Arts & Culture, Artist in Residence Martial Geoffre-Rouland and Nexus Studios July 2023. Leonardo’s notebooks, written in ‘mirror’ writing, are challenging to interpret. This team uses machine learning to make…
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An Oxford exploration
While a little late for counting down the days of December using my favourite Advent calendar from Oxford University, I decided to look over my shoulder and do a backwards exploration from the 2024 Festive Countdown Calendar to see what ‘sparks’… Discover the WikiTrivia timeline game! “…take a moment to unwind this fun, interactive trivia…
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Incredible Trees
In 2024, Comox Valley Naturalists made some significant changes to their popular “Tree of the Year” event. The goal of this annual event (since it began in 2018) has been to identify and highlight trees of significant interest or importance in the Comox Valley to encourage interest in valuing and protecting trees within Comox Valley…
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Aphids around the world
When I was in my early teens, I used to stay overnight on Friday nights at my best friend Debbie’s house, because her mom would let us stay up late and watch really bad 1950’s horror movies (and eat huge bowls of popcorn). We binged on cringe-worthy movies like Them! (a 1954 hit about giant…
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Curiosity vs Learning
I’ve had fun the last week or so, visiting many interesting, intriguing web places using the beautiful ‘Festive Calendars’ created by Oxford Continuing Education from 2023 to 2017. Each year’s calendar begins and ends with the following explanation: “Our gift to you: each day during the month of December, explore free, educational online resources –…
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Different views
Happy New Year! We all hope it will be a good year, despite the current cold (and snow). I continue to procrastinate, dealing with every other task or person around me, before returning to write on my blog! I have files of ideas and collections of research for various articles and posts I’ve never completed.…