tingilinde

the solution to yesterday's puzzle

 

 

a puzzle

a tip of the hat to Sukie

solution posted tomorrow

on solving wordle

learning the issues

This could be an interesting approach - learn about some of the  issues associated with climate mitigation by playing a board game.  

 

 

 

 

 

the woke xbox?

The right is seriously deranged.

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To Republicans, this anodyne change is actually a sinister plot to indoctrinate kids to become … environmentally conscious. Like clockwork, right-wingers rushed to somehow make Xbox's new settings into a cultural wedge issue. That’s the angle conservative media is running with. Just take a look at this inane exchange from Tuesday morning's episode of "Fox & Friends," in which one of their hosts claims the changes mean Xbox is “going after the children.

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a tip of the hat to Alan

 

And then there's the Republican campaign against environmental and social responisble investing.

 

 

 

the lgccc

Trying to bring fairness to the boardwalk.

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While pounding his beat, the investigator stopped at an amusement booth offering a familiar basketball challenge: Make the shot, look big in front of your partner or your sugar-addled kid, and take home a stuffed something to put out with the trash by fall.

Anyone who has whiled away time on the gaudy midway of life knows how these things can go. Leaded milk bottles impossible to knock down. Darts too dull to pop a balloon. Basketballs with too much air arcing toward distant hoops about the width of a dinner plate.

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visual zork

Neat - but I think the original, where you have to use your mind to build the maps and images, is better.

a pronunciation guide

Qatar

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Is it Kuh-TAR, like guitar? Or Kuh-TAH, like the British pronunciation of catarrh, a phlegmy sore throat? What about the business executives who bang on about how you are 100 percent wrong and should be saying KUH-ter, like cutter (or gutter), or something that more approximates KAT-ar?

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how do you make the perfect toy?

Why are some toys classics and how do you make a new one?

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But learning and development can’t be the only reason certain toys stick around, wrote Baxter, who is chair of the anthropology department at Chicago’s DePaul University and an archaeologist and historian of childhood. After all, here were two items—a rotary phone and mouse ears—that have persisted despite having no clear connection with the present. “The emotional connection adults have to this iconic toy has kept it in the marketplace despite the fact that a rotary-dial landline phone is technologically irrelevant for children today,” Baxter wrote. The same could be said of Mickey Mouse ears. The toy hasn’t appeared on TV as much in recent years, is no longer featured prominently in Disney’s theme parks, and is based on a character who is “increasingly peripheral to the Disney brand.”

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the pokémon fossil museum