Visiting Middle Schoolers at Meadowbrook School, Weston MA

(From the school’s website) The Meadowbrook School English Department was pleased to welcome author Mark Peter Hughes yesterday to discuss the writing process with our 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Hughes had the middle school students rapt; several came up to him afterwards to ask questions and have their books signed. He had three tips …

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Amazing Fan Art

Check out this incredible fan art for I Am the Wallpaper, an amazing drawing by Jessica N, an 8th grader at St. Eugene School in Bayside, WI. I love, love, love it! Any other talented folks out there with art to share? 🙂      

Captain Frogman: A short, stupid, kinda fun movie I made as a kid

When I was ten I started making movies using my dad’s super 8 movie camera. This before digital cameras, before DVDs, before making videos was common or easy. The camera didn’t even have sound and I had to save up the money just to buy and process the film so we never did more than …

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Is it just me or is the A Crack In The Sky future starting to feel less and less like sci-fi?

Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 2013 The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years…The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas …

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