Home Genesis Aircraft Project Flightstar II Pictures Pictures from the Early Years HES Met  Astro Forecast Extra Credit MegaSearch Site Map            mrbutlerok@juno.com

 

 updated:  01/31/10 01:08 PM       Visitors since Nov 2006            Hit Counter     

Biggest and brightest full moon of 2010 tonight................"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."..............................Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ............

Mr. Butler's Home Page    Honors Earth Science, Meteorology, Astronomy

 

 

"No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty."

-Ulysses S. Grant,
18th U.S. president and Civil War general

 

Image: Sea slug

Scientists discover part-plant, part-animal sea creature

Mystery object on course to whiz past Earth

     

The lowdown on winter solstice

 

"Employ your time well if you mean to gain leisure."

Benjamin Franklin, inventor, statesman

 

Hubble Captures Toddler Galaxies // Deep space Hubble image (© NASA/ESA/AP)

Fluffy Mystery at Edge of Solar System Solved

 

  "Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on." 
--Led Zeppelin,  "Stairway to Heaven"
 
 
8 ‘extinct’ species found alive

AP file

Amid all the doom and gloom of an extinction crisis, a bit of fleeting good news appears every now and again. Full story

2009’s top 10 new species

 

 

Crab Nebula (© NASA/CXC/SAO)

Space shots

New images of Crab Nebula, Milky Way, more

 

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all  the other virtues."

--Cicero,
Roman orator

 

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."

--Jonathan Winters

 

"The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach."
 
-Jewel,  singer-songwriter
 
Even the Maya are sick of 2012 hype Stucco panels reveal ancient Maya myth

‘Apocalypto’ excites and daunts Maya

     
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes,
U.S. Supreme Court justice

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."

--Herbert Hoover,
31st U.S. president

 
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

--George S. Patton Jr.,
World War II general

 

“It’s always somethin’ ”

Emily Latella

[or was it Rosanna Rosanadana?]

Without labor nothing prospers."

--Sophocles,
Greek playwright and philosopher

 
"My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something."

--Groucho Marx

 
EAA News - Flightstar e-Spyder Makes First Flight "Indecision may or may not be my problem."-Jimmy Buffett "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
 
--Sir Isaac Newton,
English physicist and mathematician
 
     

Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

 

Grand Canyon marks 90th anniversary as national park

 

Grand Canyon National Park Visitor Information

 

Grand Canyon Explorer

 

The Geology of the Grand Canyon

 

Grand Canyon National Park - Welcome to Grand Canyon National Park

 
environment |  
By Charles J. Hanley, AP
Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea...
 
discoveries |  
By David Hall, AP
A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal...
 
 
The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it fertilization of eggs inside a female took place as much as 30...

Stern man with glasses (© Tim McGuire/Comet/Corbis)Do you get it?

The word that drives grammar purists crazy

1,900-year-old chariot discovered in Bulgaria

Huge ice sheet breaks loose in Canadian arctic

'Shocking event' another sign of warming in polar frontier, say scientists

4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August

 

 

'Big bang machine' halted for 2 months

Your spectacular death in a black holeCollider targets massive mystery

Biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’ turned on

Collider targets massive mystery

Science Gone Too Far? // Model of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel (© Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

 

 

Beauty of Mathematics

NASA spacecraft reveal cause of auroras

Magnetic substorms are energy bursts stemming from charged particles

Skywatcher Mark Urwiller caught this stunning view of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, from his vantage point five miles outside Kearney, Nebraska. Urwiller photographed the light show the evening of May 14, 2005.
 

Game Feeds "orphaned" Dogs: http://freekibble.com/

WORD PUZZLE

FreeRice Game

Lady Liberty's Crown May Reopen to Public

The National Park Service is considering reopening the Statue of Liberty’s crown, which has been closed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Broken Arrow Oklahoma Satellite/Radar Map

 

 

Live Conditions
Union 8th Grade Center

Switch to Celsius

The 8th Grade Weather Station is  

Available online

Weather

Animate Satellite/Radar Map

  Flightstar II Pictures

What I'm flying now

Trisha's Capulin Photos

The Genesis Aircraft Project

What I began training in:

Solo Day Jul 7, 08 pictures

Who's that fat guy in my hat?

Channel 6 News Story [video]

Print Version Story

a frickin' elephant

African Elephant   Thanks to April T.

Two small earthquakes recorded near Chandler OK

Moeritherium, ancient elephant ancestor (© Luci Betti-Nash/Stony Brook University)Gone for good

8 greatest species that have left Earth

 

Scientists reveal why glass is glass

Palindromes

Artist's rendering of Ventastega curonica (© Philip Renne/AP)Fossil find

Most primitive four-limbed creature ever

 

 New FLIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Move your cursor over the screen, and you will have the impression you are flying over the mountains.

Thanks to Dr HG B, III

New Fauna [fantastic photos!]

Thanks to Susan H

This photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer was nicknamed "Unicorn."
   

Entertainment

Looking for MS XL games to post here!

If you have a suggestion, please send it [email] as an attachment.

Here's a site which I think has some:

Excel Games

Phone Numbers Changing, District-Wide

"Galaxy" Song  Thanks to Matt W.!

   

MOAR (Massive Output Arrayed Radar)

for Saturday afternoon May 24, 2008

FreeRice Game

"Here's a "good" game for you. A new U.N. campaign donates 10 grains of rice for each question you answer correctly at http://www.freerice.com. It's already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people.

Click here to read more!

 

How to compute your Semester Grade

New Aurora Borealis Presentation

[BIG file!]

somewhere in time

Thanks to Susan Hollon

Capulin Volcano website

Maps to Capulin

Student Capulin Photos

Math Homework Help

Union District's

[Parent Online]

How to access Parent Online

   
Ask Bill Nye // Brain activity (© Digital Vision/Getty Images)

First dig in 44 years turns up new clues at Stonehenge

Sulfur dioxide closes Volcanoes National Park

Science News

Ask Bill Nye

   

Latest Astro News

green central markgreen

Weather News Items

   
 

How to Take the Semester Exam

 How to Take the Semester Exam

How to Study for the Semester Exam

How to Study for the Semester Exam

   
 

 

DFY

Drug Free Youth

To express a complete thought, you must form a complete sentence.

Dictionary.com Word of the Day

OneLook Word of the Day

A.Word.A.Day Home Page

You are not expressing a complete thought, if you do not form a complete sentence.
  8th Grade Center Daily Class Schedule

 

 
MLA Sample Including Instructions

MLA.org

Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style

School Map

Lockers Map

One-way Halls Map    Thanks to Nader S.

WeatherBug Web site

Check out the 8th Grade Weather Station  

Available online

Powers of Ten Website

 and Hubble Images

[Thanks to Kristin's N.'s Mom!]

HPV shot also guards against 2 other cancers

Girls: Get your vaccination against a specific women's cancer [every 4 yrs].. The first of it's kind

There's no cure, but now there is prevention.  1/4 girls age 14-19 are infected; 1/2 women ages 20-24

Millions In U.S. Infected With HPV

Check out the Tulsa Rowing Club!  Went to nationals this year.

www.tulsarowingclub.org

 

 

Lab Map

Student Projects
Encarta             Find a Word            Words of the Day 

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary code, and those who don't." 

"I don't want to live on in my work.  I want to live on in my apartment."     Woody Allen

The Genesis Aircraft Project

Free internet services

Mr. Butler's Home Page    Current Grades    Extra Credit    Forecast    HES Home Page    HES Schedule    HES Download Page    MegaSearch page    Meteorology and Astronomy Home Page    Met-Astro Daily    Met-Astro Downloads    Meteorology and Astronomy Extra Credit    DFY    Fast Home Page

Daylight Saving Time   Time Exhibits      Web Exhibits

Mr Butler's [old] Home Page [2005-06]