In case you didn't know, books are empirically cool.* Scientific fact.
Which is why The Sketchbook Project is automatically awesome -- it's a collection of thousands of books, all made by people just like your fine self. For $25, the folks at Art House Co-op will send you a blank sketchbook. Fill its pages with whatever you want, send it back to The Sketchbook Project, and next summer, your book will take an epic road trip across the U.S....
A couple weeks ago, we started a new section of the site called The Library. Like most libraries, it's filled with books, but ours are virtual, and they're all recommended by our teachers about the topics they teach.
Here are a few of our favorites to get you started this summer:
Why you should read it: Easy to follow instructions and a wide range of...
The 4th is on a Wednesday this year, which, besides making for a very awkward work week, means that next Tuesday's Society for the Advancement of Social Studies meeting is basically on a weekend. Get ready for Independence Day by learning a few things about good old America.
We'll cover the history of political parties in the States, give you a timely refresher on the Revolution, and a history of crazy American laws. There'll be drink...
Architecture is fun! Because it's inherently interesting and also because you can impress your friends by casually dropping things like "oh, what a nice example of an Ionic column," so let's get a-learning.
Here's a really short version: our friends the Greeks and Romans generally built temples in three "orders" - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.
These styles are characterized, among other things, by the type of column used, and that's...
Last week, at our maple syrup class, we were perplexed by a very important question. Why did all the real maple syrup bottles have these tiny, useless handles?
You know the type:
The infamous tiny handle. courtesy Brett L.
So, why go through the trouble of having these little handles when a smooth bottle would do the job just fine?
The internet's favorite answer is that the handles are a remnant from when most jars were large...
