June 2014 Bits and Clips
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Here are the articles, blogs, podcasts and videos from this month that I felt were worth sharing. I hope you find something enjoyable, inspiring, intriguing or enlightening:
Art:
- MFA in Boston: Quilts and Color
- A Tip for Drawing Moving Targets
- This is What 500 Years of Female Portraits Looks Like in Under 3 Minutes
- Some Awesome New Art Books For Kids
- The Role of Arts Education in Schools
- Duck Tape Prom Dresses
- Paint with Frozen Paint Cubes on a Hot Day
Photography:
Spirituality:
- God’s Orchestra
- Four Things We Can All Learn From One of America’s Oldest Religious Communities
- What the Bible Says About Gay Rights
- Suggestions for Talking with…
- Reporting the News With a Mission to Heal
- 60 Books About World Religions For Kids
- Resistance to Creativity
- Largest Religion in Each State
- Most Common Factor in Declining Churches
- Why You Can Stand Up and Live Like an All-Star After Being Dumped, Left Out or Forgotten
- 15 Spiritual Books to Take to the Beach this Summer
Ideas:
- A Big Pile of Fantastic Ideas to Get Kids Outside Making and Doing This Summer
- America’s Future Depends on Gifted Students
- Millennials in Adulthood
- Math for 7 year olds: Graph Coloring, Chromatic Numbers, Eulerain Paths and Circuits
- What Really Makes a Person a Leader
- The 12 year old Who Designed a Low-cost Braille Printer from Legos
- The Art of the Effective Business Email
- 30 Secret Small Towns that Look Like Fairy Tales
- Mom Shares Her Decision to Homeschool Her Kids
- The Value of Unstructured Playtime For Kids
- 50 Collective Nouns to Bolster Your Vocabulary
- A Survey of Grown Unschoolers: An Overview of Findings
- How to Get a Job at Google
- 10 Simple Words Every Girl Should Learn
- If You Are On The Beach, This Map Shows You What’s Across the Ocean
- Natural Learning Development for Right Brained Children
- 8 Myths That Undermine Educational Effectiveness
- Most Important Skills Parents Need Today
- Creativity and Optimal Brain Function Have Been Linked
- Where Guns are Easier to Find than Knowledge
- Watch 1000 Years of European Borders Change in 3 Minutes
- I Can’t Homeschool Because I’m Afraid I Would Miss Something Important
- 16 Enchanting UK Spots to Visit Other Than London
- 4 Ways to Amplify Love in Your Life
- 101 Non-electric Things for Kids to Do When They are Bored
- Putting Time in Perspective
Books:
- Your Summer Reading List
- Top 100 Mighty Girl Picture Books
- David Sedaris Tells You What to Read This Summer
- Librarian Nancy Pearl Maps Out a Plan for Your Summer Reading
- Why Reading Aloud to Older Children is Valuable
- Stitch This: Three Not-at-all Cozy Books About Quilting
- Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition
- Why Do We Educate with Living Books?
- 25 Most Challenging Books You Will Ever Read
- 25 Secrets of Publishing, Revealed
- How to Quit Amazon and Shop In An Actual Bookstore
- 17 Bookstores That Will Literally Change Your Life
- 100 Must-Reads for Kids 9 – 14
Food:
- 40 Maps that Explain Food in America
- Coconut Broccoli Soup Recipe
- FDA May Destroy American Artisan Cheese Industry
- New Haven Named Top Foodie City of 2014
- Mollie Katzen’s Five Favorite Uses for Walnuts
- Why Organic Farming Could Save the World
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