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Local plant based foods of Micronesia

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Maxon and Jamie brought doughnuts and dough sticks make of fried ground taro - gluten free doughnuts. The hard taro, mwahng, is grated, sugar is added along with one teaspoon of baking soda, and then the dough is hand worked into the desired shape. Then the taro shapes are fried. Any shaped can be created and fried. Jamie Barnabas and Maxon Defang presenting their gluten free doughnuts. Luthen Jacob presented a Mortlockese dish, "uht amat" made from boiled ground bananas. Food color is a modern addition to this dish. Luthen Jacob Aiesha-Lane Santos, Junia Alanzo, Shannon Jonathan present mwahng kedihdi Mwahng kedihdi is made by boiling hard taro for 30 minutes or more. Sugar is added to the water, along with sweet coconut milk. young mashed banana (uht pwul sukusuk) Jannessa Johnny, Evangelina Kapiriel, and Loryann Martin presented uht pwul sukusuk Rohtamahn koahp noahir Jeanie Bartolome and Merany Pelep presented r...

Measuring the speed of sound

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The class again used the approach of measuring the time delay for a clap from distances out beyond 200 meters. That one can hear the clap of two boards from up to 558 meters away, with the wind working against us today, remains amazing to me. While the 8:00 class would be eight percent low (which would have been good in the days of echo-synch clapping), the 11:00 class would measure a speed of 351 meters per second, only 0.3% high. Within a third of a percent of the speed of sound. This term the new El Niño presentations extended into Monday. Although the presentations ended by 12:40, the remaining 20 minutes was insufficient to introduce waves. This pushed the RipStik run back to Wednesday. This term I opted for three sheets of poster pad paper for a total length of 248 centimeters. There were 3.75 wavelengths on the sheets, suboptimal but achieving an integer number of wavelengths is nigh on impossible. Although I strove for a straight centerline, the centerline still ...

Cloud drawing assessment

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The best assessors of drawings with crayons are five year olds, the second best are six year olds. Technically one of the judges had just turned seven eight days before the assessment. The judges had to talk out their evaluation of the drawings.This removed instructor's bias from the process. The three were not paying attention to names on papers, just looking at whether the cloud drawing was observationally accurate, well composed, with evidence of effort and time taken to complete the drawing. There were some strong disagreements and compromises were reached. Better drawings were moved up, towards the back in this shot. Not as well done drawings were shifted down. Compromises landed in the middle. A couple drawings became quite contentious. The drawing Tristan thought was the best was thought not to be by the other two judges. A drawing Keeyana favored was disliked by Tristan. Marlin helped them find consensus and compromise.

Meters per minute of latitude and longitude

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In the 8:00 section we walked a line of longitude. Confused and lacking sufficient coffee, I briefly thought we could start in the parking lot. That was a fail in the modern use of the term. East went broadside into the faculty building. Mary-ann, Regina Starting from here was an epic fail, I mistakenly thought the parking lot edge was roughly east-west and that we could clear the northwest corner of the B building. But the due east line runs directly back towards the north faculty building. I should know this, I do know this, but I was not thinking clearly. Not enough coffee on board. With that failure under my belt, I moved back to the "second palm" and restarted the class. Macy at the second palm. Callany with the surveyor's wheel, Macy studies the face of the GPS Macy, Macksy, and Petery lead off with GPS units. Renster and Haworth At 11:00 I decided to retry a line of longitude. I successfully threaded a line between LRC and admin...