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📚🌈 For 23 years, Reading Rainbow proved #television could inspire #kids to love #reading. The show was specifically designed to combat "#summer slide" – when students' literacy levels drop during #vacation. With LeVar Burton as host, it won 26 Emmy Awards and changed how educational #TV approached literacy.

👉 smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian

#arte #video #doku

Normalerweise zahlt es sich aus, hart zu arbeiten und sich an die Regeln zu halten. Aber dann gibt es die Regelbrecher - die Steueroasen ausnutzen und Profite machen, ohne der Gesellschaft etwas zurückzugeben. Während sich immer mehr Menschen einfach nur ausgeliefert fühlen, schließen sich andere weltweit zusammen, um Kleptokratie und Extraktivismus die Stirn zu bieten.

#kids #freundschaft #doku
Video verfügbar bis zum 30/11/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=TLRzYbotPBg

I bought an old Arco Solar panel way back in 2002 but never did anything with it. It was so old I couldn’t even find a spec sheet online! The #kids and I used the multimeter we recently fixed to measure basic Voc and Isc, then built our own #diy #solar USB charger for batteries and #solarpunk #maker projects, like powering our recent “Cricket in a Can” piezo #music platform with the sun. We added a few nice touches like (some) water resistance, sun-angle clamp, and of course some personal decor.

So often I don't go to the beach on the weekend, and there isn't really a reason? Like, it's not far and for the most part I could definitely go and spend and hour or two there, even when I'm busy.

Then today! Today I went and it was amazing – what was I expecting, though, really? It's the beach. Kid3 and Kid4 went swimming because young people do not care about their kidneys, and I sat in the sun and edited a manuscript. Then we bought chips and hot chocolate and said hello to dogs and walked along the beach.

10/10 would go again (and almost certainly will)

#beach#weekend#kids

#fedibikes #MdRddG #MdRzA #obob #fahrrad #FahrradStattPorsche

#TousledCraneonTour

#Welt! Bist du noch da?

#Überlebt

War 'ne tolle #Tour. Hat viel #Spaß gemacht, war aber auch anstrengend.
Besonders möchte ich aber die #DJH in #Helmarshausen an der #Diemel hervorheben:

5 Minuten vom #Diemelradweg und ca 30 Min vom #Weserradweg entfernt.
Sehr liebevolles #Personal, eine exzellente #Küche und gute #Zimmer. Jetzt im #Sommer viel #Platz für #Kids draußen. Dies hat alles wunderbar gepasst!

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From: blenderdumbass . org

The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were e...

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/eq

blenderdumbass . orgEqual Rights to Kids

This is interesting to me, at least. It looks like they trialled this in poorer areas of the country, so mostly I see Lancashire in the article, but also Plymouth; possibly places where kids wouldn't be expected to have access to books at home?

I went to school at a very early age, to a day-boarding school. They taught ITA and normal English together, I think, at least, I could read normal English, but I thought in ITA and still do.

If you ask me to spell something, I spell it in my head in the phonetic alphabet (ah, bu, ker, der, eh, pff, ger) and I have a mostly instinctive translation mechanism that translates it to normal English style before I speak it; except when I have to actually think about the spelling, and split my brain, then it comes out phonetically, I have to experiment with the spelling in phonetics before I can convert - I just can't think in normal English.

I am not sure it messed me up much. I have learned to spell, but some words don't make sense to me (which is just English), and some I am stubborn about.

I also collect ITA books now, the first one I got after 50 years or so, I realised I could read perfectly. I'd never thought about what happened to ITA, maybe I was lucky that I used both and wasn't suddenly hit with a whole new reading language; but I do wonder where it went, and when I stopped using it.

theguardian.com/education/2025