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Seattle Area Kids: SciFi Writing Contest for EMP/SFM

The folks over at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum want to involve kids in their upcoming Science Fiction Festival, taking place from February 7th – February 11th.

Here is the summary:

Short Story Details
Science-fiction themed short stories will be selected in the following age groups:

  • Grades 3 – 5
  • Grades 6 – 8
  • Grades 9 – 12

Submissions must be typed, double spaced and up to 3,000 words. Text only as well as illustrated stories will be accepted. All submissions will be read by a team including: science fiction comic book writer, Brandon Jerwa; author and EMP curator Brooks Peck; and EMP’s Education Director, Patricia Costa Kim.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each age group will be awarded prizes valued at $100, $75, and $50.
Prize winners will be invited to read their short stories on February 11 at 12pm in EMP’s JBL Theater. All entries must be submitted to [email protected] by January 17, 2011. All submissions must include the student’s name, age, grade, and school.

More information can be found HERE. Hurry, the submission deadline in January 17th!

Playoff Football: Made Better Only by Super Mario Bros.

I am a die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan, but I live in Seattle.  My philosophy on cheering for the Seahawks is that I will cheer for Seattle until it impedes my ability to cheer for Philly. So, like everyone in Seattle, I was jumping up and down* with excitement as I watched Marshawn Lynch dodge half a dozen tackles to make 67 yard game-winning touchdown for the Seahawks.

So on Sunday evening as I was moping about  I found a little ray of sunshine in the form of a You Tube which shows the Lynch touchdown in the only way it makes sense:

*Really, there was a small measurable earthquake near Qwest Field that coincided exactly with the touchdown.

What the Hell *is* a Mandelbrot Set Anyway?

What the Hell *is* a Mandelbrot Set Anyway?
Yes, that’s a real broccoli.  It’s also an example of  fractals in nature.

 If my post “Nerdy Dance Party” totally had you scratching your head, you’re in luck!  Nova: Hunting the Hidden Dimension, a very interesting documentary about the life and work of Benoit Mandelbrot and Fractals is on Netflix Streaming right now.   If you don’t have Netflix Streaming (you should totally have Netflix Streaming, it’s awesome) you can read about Fractals on wikipedia at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal and the Mandelbrot Set here: http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Mandelbrot_set.

 Pretty cool, huh?

Edit:  Super-Dad just informed me that we were watching this episode of Nova on Hulu and that it also available (sans-commercials) on PBS.org.  Upon investigation it *is* available on Netflix, but on DVD only (maybe if I find the copy of  East Bound and Down Volume 1 that Kit lost sometime about four months ago I can get Netflix DVDs again…)

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