Today was my last day of classes and, voila, just like that, Junior year is done! Well, for the most part. Now I must sprint through this week of exams and make it out alive. I've got two critiques to prepare for my studio classes, a drawing project, two essays to write for my contemporary art class and, miraculously, I've done everything for my psychology class. My last day here will be Sunday (I'm sticking around for one last day of work at the nursery) and then I'm hanging out at David's house until I have to get to camp for training week. Nothing can stress me out too much, though. I'm looking forward to camp and today I had lots of fun watching the gas kiln with some classmates. I can't wait to see what comes out of the reduction firing:
Will feeding the fire. This is an electric kiln that Mike converted into a gas kiln.
The world's oldest known rocks are found near the Great Slave and Great Bear lakes in Canada. The rocks, which include granite, are around 4.03 billion years old.
Probably the earliest seismoscope was invented by the Chinese philosopher Chang Heng in A.D. 132. This was a large urn on the outside of which were eight dragon heads facing the eight principal directions of the compass. Below each dragon head was a toad with its mouth opened toward the dragon. When an earthquake occurred, one or more of the eight dragon-mouths would release a ball into the open mouth of the toad sitting below. The direction of the shaking determined which of the dragons released its ball. The instrument is reported to have detected an earthquake 400 miles away that was not felt at the location of the seismoscope. The inside of the seismoscope is unknown: most speculations assume that the motion of some kind of pendulum would activate the dragons.
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