Dr. Tyson

STELLAR:  Monday evening we had the enormous pleasure of spending three hours with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the historic Paramount theater in Seattle.

We had "cheap" seats, but that didn't matter. He was challenging and inspiring and compelling from first word to last, and we'll post a full report tomorrow, as the hour is late now.

To end his presentation he read "from the book of Carl" (to quote him), reciting Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" .


KHAAAAN!:  This morning's math lesson was all about finding the area of a triangle. First, we talked about I.D.ing a triangle's base and height, and then we watched a Khan Academy video about calculating the area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYQys52sPs

The video was great, and when the kids went to their workbooks to complete some exercises, CJ said, "This is easy!"