Baking substitutions, Copter Engineering, Ashville North Carolina, The Smokey Mountains, Tree Classifications, Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture, Quarantine Greenhouse Restaurant Amsterdam, The Science of Sound, Health, without the Weight Conversation. Beautiful Street Art, Miami, Circus Smircus Virtual Camp.
Thursday
5/14
“Blue, king of colors, comforts the heart.”
— French Poet Guillaume de Machaut
One of the most amazing things about this Covid19 time at home is how many emails and helpful living hints that have come to my inbox.
Chemistry
Family STEM Activity
Copter Engineering
Engineer a paper helicopter that will spin to the ground when dropped.
Compare your Ecosystem to your favorite Animals
Animal guess who
FIELD TRIP
Ashville, North Carolina
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| Ashville, NC is in the westernmost part of the State, in the Smokey Mountains, near Georgia and Tennessee |
George Vanderbilt Estate.
Biltmore House, the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m2) of floor space (135,280 square feet of living area).[2] Still owned by George Vanderbilt's descendants, it remains one of the most prominent examples of Gilded Age mansions.
HISTORY
Children: Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt
Family: Vanderbilt family
Parents: William Henry Vanderbilt, Maria Louisa ...
Born: November 14, 1862
On Instagram @biltmoreestate
Chattahoochee National Forest
Great Smoky Mountain National Forest
The National Park Service has a great Program to become a Jr. Park Ranger
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH in the Park.
I was amazed at all the permits out at this point. Check out below.
CREATE AN INSECT TRACKING MAP.
OBSERVE A CRITTER AND MAKE A JOURNAL ENTRY ABOUT THIS ORGANISM
Prompts
- Observe a Critter
- Create-a-Beetle
- Smoky Mountains Memories
- Drawing Birds
- Drawing Flowers
- Tree Pods
- What Does GSMNP Mean to You?
- Patch of Dirt
- Appalachian Bear Rescue
- Nature Homes
THE GREAT SMOKIES at HOME
Explore
Entertain
Escape
Citizen SCIENCE
Check put
The Atlas of the SMOKIES
SPECIES MAPPER
ENVIRO(MENT) MAPPER
Tree classifications
Conifer
Deciduous
Ecosystems
Tree Damage and Decline.
Hemlocks of Georgia are plagued by hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA)
– a tiny non-native insect that quickly kills trees once they become infested.
Healthy trees can succumb to adelgid infestations in less than 5 years.
– a tiny non-native insect that quickly kills trees once they become infested.
Healthy trees can succumb to adelgid infestations in less than 5 years.
Book scatter, internet for selling books
Quarantine Greenhouse Restaurant
AMSTERDAM
The Science of Sound
Squeaks, hums, rattles, beeps, chirps, chimes, whines, thumps, bangs—all sorts of noises come from the devices and machines in our homes, and they are more than merely annoying. Over the long term, they can have a deep impact on you in ways that are not always obvious.
Public health experts have long warned about hearing damage from prolonged environmental exposure to noise levels at or above 85 decibels (dBA), which can come from everything from construction equipment to barking dogs. But experts are also seeing evidence of physiological and psychological consequences from noise exposure far below that threshold.
“From about 40 decibels—a little louder than a quiet office—we start to see mood disruption,” says Erica Walker, an environmental health researcher and the director of the Community Noise Lab at the Boston University School of Public Health. “And as we move to 65 decibels and above, we see hypertension, increased secretion of stress hormones, thickening of the blood, and cardiovascular mortality.”
What It Means to Measure Noise
Noise is at once basic and devilishly complex. By definition, noise is simply unwanted sound. But to the community of experts who attempt to measure it, control it, and hunt it down in the products we use every day, noise can be a problem that requires extraordinary engineering diligence, sophisticated instruments, and, occasionally, a bit of imagination.
The Case of the Hissing Compressor
Gabriella Cerrato is a sound sleuth. She works as an engineer for Brüel & Kjær, a major sound- and vibration-measurement company founded in the 1940s by a pair of Danish scientists—Per Vilhelm Brüel and Viggo Kjær, pioneers in the discipline of sound measurement. Brüel & Kjær is one of the world’s largest producers of sound-measuring equipment; it also does consultations with manufacturers.
Cerrato, a theoretical physicist by training, spends much of her job tracking down noise in consumer products, then finding creative ways to control, baffle, attenuate, mask, redirect, or otherwise manipulate it.
In 2001, prior to her starting at Brüel & Kjær, a major appliance maker called on Cerrato for help with one of its refrigerators. Like others on the market, it had a compressor that was much quieter than that of previous generations. It was so quiet, in fact, that consumers began complaining about a subtler noise.
A noise doesn’t have to be loud to be annoying. “I can play Metallica and Beethoven at the same amplitude, but they sound completely different,” Cerrato says.
HEALTH
You can teach confidence and a love of physical activity—but it starts with keeping weight out of the conversation
The vastness of the universe also raises some truly vast questions: “I’m curious about whether life was a once, or an always,” says Hertz. In other words, is life so rare that it only occurred once? Or does it occur all over the universe? Scientists have been wondering this for generations, so families probably won’t arrive at an answer in a single evening. But it’s certainly an interesting conversation to have as you stare up at the night sky.
A large and growing body of research has found that time outdoors makes us happier and healthier, but there’s relatively limited science explaining why. According to findings published last summer in the journal Emotion, a big part of the answer may be awe. Studies conducted by psychologists at the University of California at Berkeley showed that feeling awe during a nature experience has a singular ability to lower stress and improve our overall well-being. Even more compelling, the research suggests that we don’t need to climb a mountain or run a river to get the healing power of awe—the simplest moments outside are all it takes. For this final episode in our Nature Cure series, we talk to the scientist who led the Berkeley study, as well as a man who says awe saved his life.
This Beautiful Art Makes Climate Change Feel Visceral
The Miami Murals project is adding an interactive digital layer to a series of climate-focused public art in a mural-crazy city
recycling and animals.
ART/MIAMI MURALS
“I’m all about empowerment of women,” Claudia La Bianca said. “I want to inspire women to stand on their own, to be strong.” In this painting, she shows three women wearing bandannas, their steady eyes staring down the world. “These are badass girls,” Ms. La Bianca said. “They have everything together: mind, body, finances and swagger.” She grew up in Sicily in a family of women. “I think that enabled me to connect with women in a deeper way,” she said.
History of Creating Color for Art
Two at Home Camps in June
If you’ve never Heard of Greensboro Vermont Based Circus Smirkus
They put on an amazing all kid produced and executed Traveling Circus in the Summer.
This year will be different, but more Accessible
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