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Brain Popcorn is the successive sparking of ideas, weaving of connections, and resulting understanding and excitement of seeing little pieces of the world connect for you in a whole new way. So what’s this all about, anyway? This blog is a place for museum educators, teachers, and anyone who’s interested in barreling through life in an interdisciplinary fashion.

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Brain Popcorn · 1M ago

It’s the Most Wordiful Time of the Year

Happy National Poetry Month, Everyone! As you know from previous posts (2010, 2011), I love this month. I like seeing poems pop up on my RSS and Twitter and assorted other feeds; I like having excuses to talk about poetry (even more than I usually do), and I like giving myself time to read poetry [

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Brain Popcorn · 1M ago

Surfing, Tumbling, and Pinning

I run across a lot of fun stuff surfing the wilds of the internet, much of which I stash away to share with you here in an eventual Brain Popcorn post. Sometimes it’s from an article on my reader (and blessings on the day I decided to invest in upkeeping my RSS feeds, or I’d [...]

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Brain Popcorn · 2M ago

Ideabox: Plastic Bottles

Everybody loves to hate plastic bottles, and yet somehow it’s impossible to be rid of them, even for the most conscientious reusable-bottle carrier. Here are a few incredibly cool artists who have figured out fun ways to repurpose the ever-present plastic bottle, and a few ways you can do the same.

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Brain Popcorn · 2M ago

Brain Popcorn Reboot

It’s a gray, gloomy Friday, but my spirits are up for any number of reasons, chief among them my joy at coming back to Brain Popcorn with fresh inspiration and some new plans for the rest of 2012. (Some of my New Year’s Resolutions take longer to kick in than others, sorry about that!) Starting [..

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Brain Popcorn · 8M ago

Hello, My Name is Curiosity

To my extreme sorrow (and no doubt that of any number of my colleagues at PEM), our Museum Action Corps internship program is drawing to an end. To celebrate some of the incredible work of the program’s coordinator, Rosario, and her many teams of impressive interns, I thought I would use a few Brai

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Brain Popcorn · 8M ago

A Dynamic Mess of Jingling Things

Despite my oft-stated claim that I find just about everything interesting, I can honestly say that I’ve never been a big fan of quantum physics, except as a useful bit of technobabble in some of my favorite science fiction. However, what Geordi LaForge, Samantha Carter, and John Crichton hadn’t qui

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Brain Popcorn · 8M ago

Happy First Day of the Month of Thoth

The month of Thoth in the ancient Egyptian calendar marks the beginning of a new year. Seeing as the beginning of the school year has always felt like the true ‘new year’ to me, and I’ve always rather liked old ibis-headed Thoth, god of knowledge, it seemed like a good day to celebrate. In the [...

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Brain Popcorn · 1Y ago

Poetry and Puddles

Happy National Poetry Month, all! April is always one of my favorite months, not only because it rescues New England from the bitter drear that is March, but because there are suddenly people talking about poetry all over. Here’s a collection of some of my classic links and a few new fun opportuni

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Brain Popcorn · 1Y ago

Back from Hiatus and Happy Dr. Seuss’s Birthday

Hello all! Thank you for patiently bearing with my silence. Health issues and a very busy post-holiday work schedule disrupted the posting of Brain Popcorn, but we’re back to a weekly update schedule just in time to gear up for that spring that everybody is so desperate to reach. (In fact, I’m jus

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Brain Popcorn · 1Y ago

Happy Birthday, A.A. Milne

On this winter version of a blustery day here on the East Coast, I wish you Happiness, courtesy of A.A. Milne: Happiness John had Great Big Waterproof Boots on; John had a Great Big Waterproof Hat; John had a Great Big Waterproof Mackintosh– And that (Said John) Is That. (From When We Were Very Youn

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