The PJ Blog http://blog.prettejohn.net Mr Prettejohn surfs the high seas of the internet Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en Incredibots http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/18/incredibots/ http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/18/incredibots/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:12:22 +0000 Chris Prettejohn http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/18/incredibots/

Lots of fun and frustration to be had here trying to design and build trucks to move things.  The physics engine is superb!

]]> http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/18/incredibots/feed/ World Map Quiz http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/16/world-map-quiz/ http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/16/world-map-quiz/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:40:06 +0000 Chris Prettejohn http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/16/world-map-quiz/
Do you know your Belarus from your Benin?  Your Nepal from from your Namibia?

Here’s the site to test your knowledge of world countries

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We know more about the surface of the earth than we do of our own ocean.  What other astonishing animals are there lying undiscovered? 

These beautiful animals are called Nudibranchs which are soft bodied, shell-less molluscs or their scientifc term of sea slugs.  When you see how beautiful some of them are you’ll realise how I find it amazing that they belong to the same group of animals that eat all the plants in my garden.

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Having recently read Blood River which was the brilliant story of a journalist’s journey down the modern day Congo River, I was not surprised to see that the country seems to be imploding under a typically ugly African Civil war.  The images from the Boston Globe are stunning and yet so typically depressingly familiar for ceratin parts of Africa.

]]> http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/03/congo-crisis/feed/ How good is your punctuation? http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/01/how-good-is-your-punctuation/ http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/01/how-good-is-your-punctuation/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:13:00 +0000 Chris Prettejohn http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/01/how-good-is-your-punctuation/

Anything that’s fun and educational is a winner for me.  Lynee Truss has been the high priestess of punctuation for some time and her book Eats, Shoots and Leaves a national succerss.  Persoanlly I’ve never been able to work out where the apostrophe goes on Jesus’s’ Sandal’s’ !  This quiz will hopefully teach me!

]]> http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/11/01/how-good-is-your-punctuation/feed/ Travel in the Antarctic http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/22/travel-in-the-antarctic/ http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/22/travel-in-the-antarctic/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:39:46 +0000 Chris Prettejohn http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/22/travel-in-the-antarctic/
This great article explains the different modes of transport in the Antarctic.  Would love to drive one of them to school one day!

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Here’s a ‘view’ of earth from the International Space Station.  How cool is that!  Thank you Mr.Caine

The virtual tour is fun too!

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The BBC has an article about future the future of energy production could be in the use of lasers squeezing together atoms of hydrogen.  But I thought lots of energy was needed to create a laser in the first place?  Who knows?  Well I guess the scientists at the Iter Fusion venture do.

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I predict in 5 years time we won’t be issuing text books to students and they won’t be lugging around heavy rucksacks.  Instead they’ll have a plastic textbook reader which will store all theri books and magazines.  I can’t wait for a paperless system!!  The BBC has an interesting review here

]]> http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/15/no-more-textbooks/feed/ An American Road trip! http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/06/an-american-road-trip/ http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/06/an-american-road-trip/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:17:24 +0000 Chris Prettejohn http://blog.prettejohn.net/2008/10/06/an-american-road-trip/

This is a great website.  Not only is it beautifully put together but
it’s a fun geographical trip through the United States.  I especially
like thebarbecue song!

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