The Shusher

The End Of The Milky Way

To follow up on this quote, this whole story is fascinating.

Sari Zeidler:

New data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope proves, NASA says, that in 4 billion years the Milky Way and Andromeda will collide or pass each other by so closely that the gravitational force each exerts on the other will cause them to slow down to the point of merging. The merger will be completed 6 billion years from now.

And:

“The clear finding is, we are going to merge with Andromeda,” van der Marel said. “In the past, it was just a possibility, but now it is a known fact that this will happen.”

And:

There is a 9% chance that M-33, a satellite galaxy of Andromeda, will hit the Milky Way first in what van der Marel called a “one-two punch,” causing it to become a satellite of the new galaxy that is formed.

And:

When Andromeda gets here, the sun will likely be pushed out much farther into the universe. By that time though, Earth will have become too hot to be inhabited by humans anyway.

Our sun will not be directly hit when the initial collision happens in 4 billion years. But in 6 billion years, when the merger is complete, our sun will die.

The end.

(via @zamosta)

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16 hours ago

This is a flow chart for if we ever want to change the current ppt we are using.

6 days ago

These are two tokens of appreciation that I’ve recently received that highlight the kind of positive work the LAPL and organizations in South Los Angeles are doing day in and day out without a word of notice in the papers or on the action news.

1 week ago

West Adams Prep HS

(The stacks at West Adams Prep HS)

On Saturday, May 19th I conducted a presentation for the parents of students at West Adams Prep HS; the school is less than five years old and heavily utilized by the community. I conducted my outreach in the library; the library at West Adams Prep HS is a beautiful, modern structure but there are no librarians behind the desks and the school can only afford to hire library assistants.

(The set up for our presentation)

Regardless, the facilities are outstanding, and the teachers and counselors that work at the school are testament to how far you can take an inner-city high school. The fact, alone, that there were over 35 parents in attendance at a high school parents meeting on a Saturday is testament to the predominant sentiment at the school. In fact, this was one of the nicest school libraries I’ve seen since I started doing my outreach through L.A.U.S.D.

(There were over 35 parents there)

1 week ago

Excellent A.P. Test Info and Infographic

Teach, is a teacher resource center maintained by the University of Southern California. In their own words, the Teach.com website is a comprehensive resource for information on becoming a great teacher in any state across the country. It provides state specific information on how to become a teacher, teacher salaries, teaching credentials, teacher certification tests, alternative teacher certification, and much more. Our aim is to provide all the information necessary to become a teacher no matter where you live.” So if you would like any information on the A.P. tests at the state and national level, please don’t hesitate to navigate to http://teach.com/education-policy/ap-infographic, because there are also some hella cool Infographics there as well.

1 week ago

Librarian Job Description

According to the Job Duties section for the job of Librarian, position #6152, “A Librarian provides patrons of all ages with a variety of professional librarian services, including outreach and virtual/online resources and programs, reader guidance and book reviews, reference, selection, cataloging and maintenance of library materials to meet educational, recreational and informational needs of the community, programming to support lifelong learning, educational, and cultural interests of the community, training in technologies and library resources and services, and implementation of library technologies and virtual services.”

2 weeks ago

On Wednesday May 16, I affected a demonstration at the Yo! Watts city of L.A. Community Development Department site. Malik, a popular counselor there, asked me to come and do a demonstration for about 30 students. So, we came up with 10 questions and broke up the students into ten groups of three and set them to interact with Live Homework Help. I was even able to have some students fill out surveys.

2 weeks ago

75th Elementary School

On Friday, May 11th I affected outreach to the parents group @ 75th Street Elementary School in South Los Angeles. I had been invited by Virginia Hughes, the parent teacher coordinator for the school. Virginia asked me to bring my labtop because they had a digital projector I could use; Virginia is a dedicated, fiesty, advocate for the students of 75th St ES, but she’s not crazy about computers and technology so when it came time to hook my labtop up, Virginia handed me a box which hadn’t ever been opened before and said, here’s your projector, I think.

(The Parents portable at 75 St ES.)

So, I did what any self-respecting librarian might do if presented with the same problem, and I improvised my presentation on the whiteboard. This is a pic from one of the whiteboards where I had amassed all the pertinent, relevant, salient information that I impart to parents. The second whiteboard had contact information for me at the LAPL and the three things you need to use Live Homework Help followed by the projected cost of tuition for a Bachelor’s degree (based on 2012 figures).

(My contact info plus three criteria for Live
Homework Help Use).

2 weeks ago

The Tangential: Grading My Childhood Friends’ Moms

thetangential:

Shawn’s mom: I don’t remember much about her, but she pretty much let us get away with anything—including almost being abducted from the 7-11 across the street from Shawn’s house, but that wasn’t really her fault, exactly. Isn’t six old enough to be allowed to go across the street to the 7-11…

(Source: thetangential.com)

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