Category Archives: Science/Technology

Your Own Website – Simple Start, Unlimited Potential

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Need a Website For Your Business? If you need help setting up a basic site for your business and don’t have time to learn it on your own, let me know. I can design a basic site featuring your service, shop, or restaurant, register your domain name (such as mybusiness.com), and setup the hosting for you. The cost is $35/month… Read more »

Exploring Creation with General Science

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Exploring Creation with General Science from Apologia is well suited for grades 7-9.  The text is comprised of 16 modules (or chapters) averaging 20 pages of text, with a Study Guide at the end of each module.  Every few pages in each module an “On Your Own” (OYO) section with several questions is provided.  There are also several experiments in each module.  All… Read more »

No God, No Science by Michael Hanby – Review

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(This is a copy of my my review at Amazon) You can know “what” without knowing “how”, but you can’t know “how” without knowing “what” – my short summary of this wonderful book. Modern science seeks to study complex things by isolating parts and assessing the various interactions between them. The book masterfully demonstrates that such a technique cannot be… Read more »

Why Algebra?

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The question “is Algebra really needed if my child is not interested in math/science?” comes up now and then among homeschoolers.  Here’s what I think: Algebra is essential.  Not everyone will solve equations for a living.  But you need to be able to think in terms of “functions” – meaning how one thing varies as a result of a change to another thing on… Read more »

Physics The Easy Way – Review

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Physics seems formidable to many, but this book does truly make it much easier to understand. “Easy” is relative, but this is the best book I’ve found for high school homeschoolers. It has plenty of real math problems so it’s not a dumbed down “story” of physics. Rather, it takes you slowly from easy concepts to more advanced. Anyone who… Read more »

Proving God

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While there are various proofs for God's existence, I've found this to be the simplest and therefore the most compelling. If you can refute this, let me know. Seriously, I believe this sums up the claim in Romans 1:19-20 and is undeniable. I'm sure others have expressed this argument, but here it is in my words: For anything to exist,… Read more »

PHP Example for Amazon Signed Request

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Simple Example of PHP software changes to comply with Authenticated / Signed Request / Query to Amazon’s AWS / Product Advertising API for affiliate websites – which may affect some homeschool websites. Amazon documents hint at how to do this, but there’s no sample code for PHP programming – Here’s how I got it to work… // example starts with… Read more »