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good: Playborhoods: Why Children Playing Street Games Is the Best Measure of a Healthy Neighborhood- Mike Lanza wrote in Education, Living and Cities Many decades ago, neighborhoods were bustling with life. They were also bustling with children playing in groups, with no adults supervising them. Today, most neighborhoods are dead boring, and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to find children playing in them. All this is no mere coincidence. Children have always been the most prominent people in neighborhoods. In fact, in many ways, children have always acted as the catalysts for neighborhood life. In my childhood neighborhood in the Pittsburgh suburbs back in the 1960s and 70s, my activities with friends were constantly pulling my parents and my friends’ parents together. They’d call each other to discuss one kid eating or sleeping at another’s house, and then they’d end up chatting about other things. Continue reading on good.is
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Playborhoods: Why Children Playing Street Games Is the Best Measure of a Healthy Neighborhood
- Mike Lanza wrote in Education, Living and Cities

Many decades ago, neighborhoods were bustling with life. They were also bustling with children playing in groups, with no adults supervising them. Today, most neighborhoods are dead boring, and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to find children playing in them.

All this is no mere coincidence. Children have always been the most prominent people in neighborhoods. In fact, in many ways, children have always acted as the catalysts for neighborhood life. In my childhood neighborhood in the Pittsburgh suburbs back in the 1960s and 70s, my activities with friends were constantly pulling my parents and my friends’ parents together. They’d call each other to discuss one kid eating or sleeping at another’s house, and then they’d end up chatting about other things.

Continue reading on good.is

jtotheizzoe: via danorst: Moon Rise Time Slice…. this is a collage of 11 photos taken over 27 minutes and 59 seconds Gorgeous. Also photographic proof that the moon is not, in fact, larger near the horizon. That is merely an illusion. What do they call that illusion? “The Moon Illusion” of course. ASAPScience did a really nice video about it. Not only that, but see how the moon is red near the horizon? That’s because of the same science that makes the sunsets red and orange! And I did a video about that: “Why is the Sky Any Color At All?” It all comes together, man! Science!
jtotheizzoe: via danorst: Moon Rise Time Slice…. this is a collage of 11 photos taken over 27 minutes and 59 seconds Gorgeous. Also photographic proof that the moon is not, in fact, larger near the horizon. That is merely an illusion. What do they call that illusion? “The Moon Illusion” of course. ASAPScience did a really nice video about it. Not only that, but see how the moon is red near the horizon? That’s because of the same science that makes the sunsets red and orange! And I did a video about that: “Why is the Sky Any Color At All?” It all comes together, man! Science!

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Moon Rise Time Slice…. this is a collage of 11 photos taken over 27 minutes and 59 seconds

Gorgeous. Also photographic proof that the moon is not, in fact, larger near the horizon. That is merely an illusion.

What do they call that illusion? “The Moon Illusion” of course. ASAPScience did a really nice video about it.

Not only that, but see how the moon is red near the horizon? That’s because of the same science that makes the sunsets red and orange! And I did a video about that: “Why is the Sky Any Color At All?”

It all comes together, man! Science!

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