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72Geology 101 for Toddlers and Kids
As far back as I can remember, I have been studying rocks. Sometimes, I used a hammer to study the insides of rocks. My brothers and I would sit on the porch for hours breaking them up to see what they were made of. As the years progressed, I...
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63The Snake That Could Not Be Seen
On a warm, dusty, June morning in an East Texas town, I had the most amazing personal demonstrations of how our brains work to filter and censor what we see through our eyes. It changed the way I viewed the...
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72Toy Swimming Pools for Adults
I have always wanted my own private swimming pool. And I probably have enough room in my yard to have a "real" swimming pool built, if I want to cut down my pecan trees or get rid of the unused storm shelter (a 1950s bomb shelter, truth be told)....
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69Reading Fast vs. Speed Reading vs. PhotoReading
I have been an avid reader since I was about 6 years old. It was the one thing in my young life that I wanted to learn to do with an intensity that has never been matched by any other desire. It was also...
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69The Hummingbird and the Spider Web
In East Texas. back in the 1980's, my small family of three lived in an old run down, ironstone mansion on the edge of town. It was pure wilderness right up to the house. The house was also over-run with windows which made air conditioning...
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61Needle Nose Hummingbirds
Back in the 1950's, in Central Texas, Mimosa blossoms were a favorite meal for the hummingbirds. We had the largest Mimosa tree in the neighborhood and it had an abudance of flowers all summer long. This...
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62The Salt Shaker Tale
When I was about three years old, I began chasing and trying to catch the birds in our yard. My dad sang the Mockingbird song to me everynight, and in my mind, I thought catching a bird was something that...
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