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Author: Karen Burnham

Upcoming Reading for 2015

January 8, 2015December 15, 2017Karen Burnham1

‘Tis the season for looking at what books will be published in the coming year!

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Pulp Fiction in Pearl’s Peril

November 21, 2014December 15, 2017Karen Burnham2

Pearl’s Peril features a competent heroine whose engineering prowess often saves the day in this pulp fictional adventure game.

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SF Worldbuilding: Dinosaur Train

October 20, 2014November 23, 2017Karen Burnham7

Karen tries to fill in the worldbuilding background to make PBS’s Dinosaur Train make science fictional sense.

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Breast Pumps at the MIT Hackathon

September 19, 2014November 23, 2017Karen Burnham2

This weekend, the MIT Hackathon focuses on making the breast pump Not Suck!

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Space Opportunities and News

July 6, 2014November 26, 2017Karen Burnham0

Student unmanned aircraft competitions, opportunities to launch payloads on NASA rockets, a space anniversary, and more.

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Pinbusted or Pintrusted: Fireworks in a Jar

February 17, 2014December 16, 2017Karen Burnham0

Get a fireworks display in a jar–when you follow all the instructions correctly!

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Canada vs. Mars in Temperature Death Match

January 10, 2014November 24, 2017Karen Burnham2

It was colder in Canada than on Mars! Except wait… maybe not. Fact checking FTW.

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Ants… in… Spaaace!

January 9, 2014November 24, 2017Karen Burnham0

The latest ISS re-supply mission will include a shipment of ants involved in a K-12 educational research project.

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Favorite Christmas Present: Roll & Play Game

January 7, 2014December 16, 2017Karen Burnham0

A fun introduction to board games for toddlers age 18 month and up.

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Review: Shape the Village

November 21, 2013November 24, 2017Karen Burnham2

A new app for toddlers that teaches shapes in a bright and engaging way.

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Astronauts Are Moms Too

November 20, 2013November 24, 2017Karen Burnham1

Dr. Karen Nyberg returned from six months on the International Space Station to her fellow-astronaut husband and their three-year-old son.

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A Children’s Music Garden in an Industrial Land

November 20, 2013November 24, 2017Karen Burnham0

Using recycled industrial canisters to make a music garden.

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Interview: Running a Kid’s Track at a Geek Convention

November 15, 2013December 15, 2017Karen Burnham2

What does it take to run a kid’s programming track at a convention, one that keeps a multitude of kids entertained and engaged?

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Review: Wee Rockets on the iPad and iPod Touch

November 12, 2013December 16, 2017Karen Burnham0

Wee Rockets is a spaceship design app for the toddler set.

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Pinbusted or Pintrusted: Melted Crayon Wax on Pumpkins

November 7, 2013December 16, 2017Karen Burnham0

Melting crayon wax onto a pumpkin is an easy, fun craft that you can do even with a toddler.

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NASA to Launch High School Students' Satellite

October 31, 2013November 24, 2017Karen Burnham1

NASA plans to launch a small satellite designed by students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia.

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Scientists When They Were Little Girls

October 19, 2013November 24, 2017Karen Burnham0

Cute little girl pictures of women who grew up to be scientists.

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World's Largest Walking Robot is a Dragon

September 21, 2013December 16, 2017Karen Burnham0

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this fire-breathing dragon is the world’s largest walking robot.

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Food Allergy Cards for International Travel

September 16, 2013December 15, 2017Karen Burnham0

Laminated cards that explain your (or your child’s) food allergies in a wide variety of languages.

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Do You Randomly Gender-Swap Characters in Kids Books?

September 12, 2013December 15, 2017Karen Burnham6

If the characters in a book are all depicted as boys, we sometimes swap the genders around when we’re reading the stories out loud.

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