Hi, I'm Jimmie, and this is my online collage -- a little bit of this and a little bit of that. You're welcome to poke around and leave a comment if you desire.
[bookmark] Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge (1851-1940) This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the se […]
[bookmark] With some quick activities, I introduce children to these methods and media and help them learn new techniques. To start, I tell the children to draw a frame and write their names on the bottom of the blank page. This immediately eliminates the fear of “messing” a pure white paper. […]
[bookmark] Pace is better than pretty Many writers try to improve their writing by making it ‘pretty’. They try to stuff their text full of colorful adverbs and adjectives. Wrong! Lean sentences that heighten the pace keep readers from falling off the page. […]
[bookmark] The latest research by the health department reported a low rate of hand washing compliance among the country"s hospitals, in that nearly 50 percent of health workers fail to wash their hands during their daily work. In some Western countries, the rate of compliance with hand hygiene rules is more than 90 percent. […]