Video Fridays: An Astronaut’s Guide to Self Isolation

Words of wisdom from Astronaut, Chris Hatfield, on how to deal with social distancing and how he dealt with it in Space…

Video Mondays: Kurzgesagt (in a nutshell) – The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do

More useful information in less than nine-minutes than all the WH press conferences put together for the past three months… #StayAtHome and #WashYourDamnHands

Video Fridays: Some Cello Music for Your Soul

Inspired by news of how the Italians were coping with their quarantine with evening serenades that were posted on YouTube, 9-year-old Taran Tien and his little sister, 6-year-old Calliope, offered to perform a cello concert for their next-door neighbor, 78-year-old Helen Schlam, who had been self-quarantining in her Columbus, Ohio home. Rebecca Tien, the mother of the two musicians, recorded

Video Fridays: The Many Smiles of Ms. Merz

It probably seems odd to non-educators that decisions for teaching positions for the following August/September have to be made six-months in advance, around the February/March time frame. But we’ve entered that time of year, just after the mid-point of the school year… and it can make the last ten weeks feel like a “goodbye tour.” Oddly personnel changes can also

Video Mondays: Revisiting Kutiman Thru You Remix videos

One fun part of having someone new in ones life is sharing things that you love that one’s partner has never experienced before. So over this past weekend I introduced Deb to Kutiman’s “Thru You” and “Thru You Too” projects, where this amazing musical/video artist took snippets of unrelated music performances, demos, etc., off of YouTube and crafted 15 visual

YouTube Copyright Complaint, Again!

YouTube Copyright Complaint, Again! I’m getting really tired of this. I spent basically two-days putting the last episode of JBB’s Final Thoughts (video podcast) together (1 day to write and record the main monologue and 1 day to gather b-roll and edit) and I didn’t finish and upload it to YouTube until almost 6AM. Then I got notice almost immediately

Women of NASA During Apollo: Poppy Northcutt

Whether you are good at some career has nothing to do with your gender or the color of your skin or the community you grew up in or the language you speak at home or your grandmother’s religion… this is the American Dream, that you succeed on the basis of your efforts!

Come Back To Me After You’ve Read The Mueller Report

No one is above the law. Lying is not the new norm. Both sides are not the same. This has not helped nation in its relationships with other nations. Come back to me after you’ve read the mueller report. Period.

Friends in the New Year

Friends in the New Year I posted this video some time ago… but it still speaks to hopes I have for this new year that is less than 12-hours away… Enjoy This next (bonus) video speaks to the spirit I want to engage in living this next year: