June 2023 Learn More Links

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Not a Bot? Prove it!

History of CAPTCHA

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/81927/surprisingly-devious-history-captcha

CAPTCHA and Duolingo

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/860884062/recaptcha-and-duolingo-luis-von-ahn

How CAPTCHA was made into a Bussiness

https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/submission/recaptcha-the-brilliant-business-model-that-only-one-man-could-create/

CAPTCHA facts for Kids

https://kids.kiddle.co/CAPTCHA

Academic Kids Encylopdiea

https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Captcha

Earth, Wind, and Fire Powered

What is Renewable Energy?

https://www.alliantenergykids.com/renewableenergy/renewableenergyhome

Types of Renewable Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giek094C_l4

Renewable Energy for Kids

https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/renewable_energy.php

Kids Earth

https://kids.earth.org/climate-change/renewable-energy-2/

Chocolate Power

https://www.meridiam.com/projects/biokala-biomass-plant-ivory-coast/

What is Electricity?

Electricity Basics

https://www.freeingenergy.com/understanding-the-basics-of-electricity-by-thinking-of-it-as-water/

War of the Currents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

Make your own math puzzles

Bakuro Puzzles

https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/bakuro/

What is IQ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence\_quotient

A Different Kind of Monster Mash

The History of Clarus the Dogcow

https://512pixels.net/dogcow/

Dogcow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow

Macintosh Technical Notes #31: The Dogcow

http://web.archive.org/web/20040202021201/http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/dogcow/tn31.html

Clarus the Dogcow: Moof Museum

http://clarus.chez-alice.fr/

List of Hybrid Creatures in Folklore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_hybrid\_creatures\_in\_folklore

The Swift Programming Language: The Basics

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/thebasics/

Secrets of the Mystery Calculator

How the Mystery Calculator works

https://mathsedideas.blogspot.com/2017/12/on-christmas-cracker-mystery-calculator.html

Digital mystery calculator

https://eddmann.com/mystery-calculator-clojurescript/

Become a Vault Hunter

Vault Hunters

https://vaulthunters.gg/

If it does Math, it is a Computer

The Antikythera mechanism

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Antikythera-mechanism

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    Tim is an award-winning writer and technologist who enjoys teaching tech to non-technical people. He has many years experience with web sites and applications in business, technical, and creative roles. He and his wife have two kids, now teenagers, who are mad about video games.

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