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Self-tutoring about food: the tutor visits an old favourite. When I was a kid in the Maritimes, radishes were ubiquitous during the summer. Everyone ate them without hesitation. I can’t recall anyone saying they didn’t like them; such an idea …
Self-tutoring about people, events, and ideas of the past: the tutor reflects… On a beautiful summer day such as today has been, I often spin back into the past: how did I spend such days when I was a kid? …
Self-tutoring about life and one of its mysteries: the tutor reflects about how, surprisingly often, things “fix themselves.” I recall, decades ago, when one of my friends was selling his car to another. The deal was fair; he was moving …
Resurrection: why do things seem to fix themselves sometimes? Read more »
Self-tutoring about some mouse-like outdoor creatures which aren’t mice: the tutor looks into preliminaries concerning voles, moles, and shrews. Shrews Shrews eat meat – chiefly invertebrates – and hunt above ground mainly at night. An adult might be around 10cm, …
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Self-tutoring about life transitions: the tutor reflects. With school recently ending for another year, many people won’t return to that one. They might’ve graduated from high school, for instance, so will proceed to college. Perhaps they just finished grade 5, …
Self-tutoring about amphibians: the tutor mentions a lifestyle of some frogs. I mention back in my post from July 3 about the green frog and how it can spend hibernation under water. I wondered how this works, but have since …
Amphibians: how can frogs hibernate under water? Read more »
Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions one from his childhood. I’ve reported, in other posts, on people who’ve entered my orbit periodically during specific intervals of my life. Often they were connected to a place …
Self-tutoring about school supplies: the tutor researches erasers. In my post from June 26, I begin about erasers. The point is that, once vinyl erasers arrived – around 1980-81, in my world – they supplanted pink erasers. Yet, the other …
Self-tutoring about color: the tutor mentions some ideas about rgb. The following is my understanding of rgb color: rgb is additive, meaning that to get white, you add 100% red + 100% green + 100% blue. You can’t accomplish this …
Self-tutoring about Canadian amphibians: the tutor mentions the green frog. The green frog is common in Nova Scotia, where I certainly saw a few. Note that in this case, green frog means a species of frog, not a description, although …