Trolls and Bill Nye the Science Guy

For the past two weeks I have been dosing myself with Bill Nye talk show appearance videos and Con Man, a new series on the Comic Con channel. I absolutely LOVED the adaptation of Of Mice and Men in a musical titled "I'm With Stupid!" I can't stop watching it.
Anyway, I went off after watching a benign documentary about steel and stumbling across someone in the comments started talking about creationism being the only rational response to the greatness of the world. Obviously, it was a troll but... too late....

here I go again...

E.O. Wilson, an experimental biologist and multiple Pulitzer winner describes his 50+ years studying ants and what they teach us about our world. His ingenious tests of evolutionary change grew naturally from a childhood spent asking, "Why?" That one word provides the fuel for the most powerful way we humans have found to begin understanding what we see and hear and touch and taste and smell. Certainly science has limits and definitely other ways of knowing must inform our scientific explorations. Yet we benefit every day that we allow and support those who ask questions and question answers. Greater benefits yet come when we allow frank discussion and respect transparent motives. I look forward to the lessons we will learn each day that we can freely experiment and share the results while still fulminating a new crop of questions that spring from every single answer. I am sure you agree. You demonstrate your courage to show the world what the fruits of your learning has brought you. I look forward to what thoughts and knowledge an expanded library of knowing will bring you.. 

Someday I will collect troll responses and sift through the responses. I bet the trolls have drawn some amazing (good and bad) responses.

For those needing more... https://youtu.be/QUjgSQn6eqY is the video link that my fat fingers stumbled on... yes, I was double trolled. Everybody get your giggles out now. I think I should get a pass on this one, though. Is it actually possible to refrain from responding to any pile followed by the line "This is scientific fact which is verifiable." All right, it is the exact same line every troll learns on the first day of Troll school and that's verifiable. But if you have made it through the past two weeks without going off on some troll... or the random 5-year-old (not mine, of course) then my hearty congrats to you. Me? I'm going to up my dose of Nye and any other old bugger who can still say they've seen worse.

My thanks to Msspears.co.uk for this awesome graphic!

If you find yourself in a corner defending your 'need to read' Just pull out this fabulous cheat sheet and quote away. Extra points for handing book to your critic resulting in an impromptu group reading session. You win the game forever if this action directly results in regular reading sessions. The link takes you to the homepage.
http://www.msspears.co.uk/415628143

Books for everyone!

This Press Release is almost a year old but if I just found it then there might be others who missed it, too.

First Book, one of my favorite charities, is teaming with the Digital Public Library and the White House to publicize an application developed for kids who might have access to a smartphone or digital reader but not to ebooks. The app allows these kids to read books donated by publishers of wonderful children's books. Teachers and caregivers who work with qualified children can request access codes so they can give one to each child. For better instructions and generally more factual information can be found at FirstBook.org or the Digital Public Library at its site: dp.la. (almost as awesome as my site: Sharienne.com) The app is at this address: https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/publications/documents/get-started-openebooks.pdf.
I hope that all kids get to see that a screen can expand your mind as long as you look at the right things. I have more than 5,000 e-books and thousands more publications and booklets in my reading applications (ISSU is really putting out some great content! BTW). How could I sleep with 5,000 books under my head if we didn't have ebooks? I never want to have a day without my books and digital has made that dream possible. The last thing I do each night is put my reader under my pillow so that I don't even have to lift my head in the morning to get my reading for the day started.

go forth! read books! (or pamphlets or instruction manuals I won't discriminate. Reading is all good.)
shari

Too much for Facebook but I still want to share it.

I have recently experienced a greater need to have two levels of sharing. Facebook is for all family and friends. Like most people with a family and friends total greater than zero I have people whom I love and care about who don't agree with me about everything. I am deeply thankful that there are people who are willing to overlook my flaws and errors to care about and love me back. I treasure their patience with my hard-headed stubbornness and I am an angel to look the other way when I see their idiosyncracies showing (JOKE, I kid). Yet, there's no need to make someone raise their hackles every time they want to see cute kid pics, though. SO, starting today I am splitting my FB page in two. The opinionated, ignorant, obnoxious or the preachy will be re-located to my blog page that I use rarely (last year I had 4 visitors from the 7 billion of you. Thanks and checks are in the mail!) Obviously I haven't got an audience that I need to relocate so it is move-in ready. For the 99% of you who care more about my kids than my opinion I will make sure Dennis keeps posting pics of them regularly. (Daniel's pre-school holiday concert is tonight. Cuteness prediction is 11 of 10 points.)
You may all return to your lives.
My blog is:

Just did this quickly so lots are missing. I am a member of a travel through books club so here are the countries I have visited through books.


http://map1.maploco.com/visited-countries/mine.php?c1=rpz68bqn44-b5fz2jrwgi-bxbgyar7k4-c4ihw82r5u-3myciiy0ec


Create Your Own Visited Countries Map

Please teach children about the dangers they face BEFORE they are old enough to face them

http://www.womenagainstabuse.org/index.php/learn-about-abuse/teens

http://m.loveisrespect.org/dating-basics/what-is-dating/what-should-I-look-for

Teaching pre-teens about dating and domestic violence  is so important for girls AND young boys. Too many times we allow hormones to take the place of parenting. Children should START dating armed with this knowledge. They are too precious and the stakes are too high to allow them to learn by trial and error. If we send our kids out into the world of puberty without discussing what love can be and what it can't then we are sending babes into the lion's den. Please share this with your child before they even show interest in the opposite sex. That way it won't be taken as a personal insult to your child or the person they chose. Teach them that there is nothing about hitting, lying, cheating or controlling that is love. Even if a person professes a change still do not allow someone the opportunity to practice again on you. If one truly has changed then they can find another person to try again. No one hits you or cheats on you twice. Teach this mantra and ask your kids to say it until they mean it.

More resources
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ss60e0606.pdf
http://startstrong.futureswithoutviolence.org/why-middle-school-matters/