~~ What's new? ~~
The First Whole Book of Diagrams is out in a new edition, with new diagrams, whole new pages, overdue corrections, and lovely new illustrations from St. Margaret's students.
In conjunction with a fall 2009 course on weather, Mary Daly began a blog describing various aspects of the weather, including a story built around the Coriolis effect, one of the most important and least-understood aspects of weather activity.
Since then, the blog has moved to the star of Bethlehem, the history of science, some reflections on Einstein, and various other topics.
Evolution continues to be the hammer of atheism, the topic on which an unformed faith falters when kids leave home. You need to be informed
The newest edition includes more information about evolution.
First Timeline is in its second edition, with minor editorial revisions. A good primary resource for history, simple, useful for multiple levels.
A Doorway of Amethyst in full color, provides an introduction to geology -- to the basic types of stone, their origins and changes, and the basic types of erosion, as well as the history of earth in terms of its geologic eras, and more.
One unique feature is a discussion of the Williston Basin, where drilling has turned up representative sediments from each of the major geologic eras, in their standard order. It makes a nice review and explains why geologists find it difficult to imagine how Noah's Flood could have produced the sedimentary rock formations of the world. Whatever you believe about Creation or the Flood, you need to understand this.
Like the Irish under the Penal laws, who educated their children in caves and behind hedges to escape the imposition of either ignorance or Protestantism on their children, many families are feeling the need to take the responsibility of education into their own hands. A daunting task! Ye Hedge School hopes to help serve their needs. 