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164 “There were 5 million managed bee colonies in 1940”: USDA Agricultural Research Service, “Questions and Answers: Colony Collapse Disorder,”
http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572
.
 
165 “Nectar, which is mainly sucrose and water”: Kim Flottum,
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
(Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, 2005; rev. expanded ed., 2010).
 
168
“
Our apicultural forefathers”:
Bee Culture,
July 2001,
http://www.beesource.com/pov/simon/10principles.htm
.
 
169 “bee mites have ‘all but decimated the casual beekeeper’ ”: Glen R. Needham and Diana Sammataro, “Bee Mite Biology,”
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~acarolog/needham/beemite.htm
.
 
169 “Thought to have originated in Russia”: “Serious Bee Mite Found on Honey Bees in Hawaii,”
Science Daily
,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070426113951.htm
.
CHAPTER 9: LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
185 “Every one of us knows, if we stop to think about it”:
Psychology Today’s
Freedom to Learn blog, July 9, 2008.
 
186 “Afterward, Hahn graduated from high school”: “ ‘Radioactive Boy Scout’ Sentenced to 90 Days for Stealing Smoke Detectors,”
FoxNews.com
, Oct. 4, 2007,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299362,00.html
.
 
187 “You can’t really blame the teachers and administrators”: John Baichtal, GeekDad Review,
Wired,
June 6, 2008,
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/geekdad-review-3
.
 
192 “a device to help blind people sense obstacles in their path”: Caroline Williams, “Interview: The Outsiders,”
New Scientist
, Jan. 21, 2006: 44-46,
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925351.600-interview-the-outsiders.html?full=true
.
 
194 “this surprising discovery from a young, amateur scientist”: Rebecca Lindsey, “Smoke’s Surprising Secret,” NASA Earth Observatory Web site, Jan. 5, 2004,
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SmokeSecret/smoke_secret.php
.
 
201 “It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong”: Mel Allen, “The Education of John Holt,”
Yankee,
December 1981.
 
202 “allowing children as much freedom to learn in the world”: Pat Farenga,
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
(New York: Perseus, 2003), pp. 238-239.
INDEX
A
Abstract thinking, Flynn Effect
Acorn flour
Advertising
and cigarette smoking
modern, father of
needs versus desires
psychological approach to
Agriculture
companion-planting
permaculture
See also
Vegetable garden
Alfie
Allen, Paul
Alpha makers
defined
projects of
Altair 8800,
Alt.coffee
Alternative energy
Big Solar
California Proposition
solar share vehicles
Amateur science
chemistry DIY
decline of
historical view
Internet and advancement of
and Mims/
The Citizen Scientist
American Tobacco Corporation, women smokers and advertising
Ammonium sulfate
Anker, Andrew
Anker, Renee
Anker, Zach
Antibiotics, and egg-laying chickens
Automobiles
fuel sender, installing
Model T, repairing
solar share vehicles
B
Backwards Beekeepers
Baldwin, Jay
Bates, Russell
Beaty, John
Beck, Chris
Beekeeping
ants, keeping out of hive
backwards beekeeping
Backwards Beekeeping manifesto
feeding bees
hive, materials for
mites problem
obtaining bees
smoking hive
starter hive (nuc)
Bees
colony collapse disorder (CCD)
honey, production of
Bees (
cont.
)
humane bee-removal service
infestation of home
mobile pollination services
Benson, A. C.
Benson, Dr. Herbert
Benton, Chris
Bermuda grass, killing, difficulty of
Bernays, Edward, public relations/ advertising
Bezzera, Luigi
Big Solar, downside to
Black widows, chickens and control of
Boing Boing
Brill, A. A.
Buckweat
Burr grinder
C
California holly (toyon), compost from
California Proposition
Castor beans, for gopher control
Century of the Self, The
(Curtis)
Chaga
Chemistry, amateur.
See
Amateur science
Chickens
compost from droppings/litter
Darwin’s interest in
EROEI (energy return on energy invested)
global population of
as insect eaters
mysteriousness of
relationship to dinosaurs
waste, uses of
Chickens, raising
automatic door on coop
in compatible environment
coop, building from scratch
coop, from renovated shack
deep litter system
egg quality
eggs, eating
eggs and antibiotics
feeding
growth of chicks
and lush garden
mail-order chicks
moving chicks to coop
moving chicks to new area
naming by banding
out-of-coop behavior
predators
wounded chicken, caring for
Cigar Box Nation
Cigarette smoking, and Bernays’ advertising
Citizen Scientist, The
Coconuts, harvesting/processing
Coffee
for export market versus food crops
See also
Espresso
Colony collapse disorder (CCD), bees
Companion-planting
Compost
effects on plants
making
making from chicken litter
worm-containing
Computers
Altair 8800,
and Flynn Effect
See also
Internet
Consciousness, state of
and focusing
and knitting
relaxation response
and whittling
Consumption, emotions and advertising
Cook Islands
Frisbie and Neal, relocation to
See also
Rarotonga
Coyne, Kelly
Coyote
chicken killers
fencing to keep out
Craft
Crema
, of espresso
Curtis, Adam
D
Darley, Julian
Darwin, Charles
Dash, Anil
Deep litter system
Deutschmann, Milton
Deutschmann, Theodore
Dinosaurs, relationship to chickens
Discover
, on Mims
DIY (do-it-yourself )
activities, scope of
alpha makers
avoiding, rationalizations for
as deprogrammed from advertising
goals of
Internet, influence of
Maker Faire
mistakes, making
past interest in
positive impact of
projects, types of.
See
DIY (do-it-yourself ) activities
rediscovery of
time, finding for
traits of
types of projects of
wabi sabi
DIY (do-it-yourself ) activities
amateur science
beekeeping
chickens, raising
and education
espresso maker, installing PID,
fermented foods, making
lawn, killing
Rarotonga relocation
stringed instruments, making
vegetable garden
wooden spoons, making
DIY (do-it-yourself ) Internet sites
alt.coffee newsgroup
Boing Boing
Homegrown Evolution blog
hooptyrides.com
(Mister Jalopy)
trailing-edge technology users Tweets
Do-it-yourself.
See
entries under DIY
Dougherty, Dale, starts
Make
magazine
Dronestick, making
Dyson, Freeman
E
Earth Boxes
E. coli
, and vegetable garden
Ecosystems, small scale.
See
Permaculture
Edible Estates
Education
Gray (Dr. Peter) on
homeschooling
home tutoring
hunter-gatherer learning
Sudbury Valley School method
traditional, criticism of
unschooling
Eggs, fresh.
See
Chickens, raising
Electronics DIY.
See
Amateur science
Electronics Learning Lab
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emotions, and advertising
Energy
alternative.
See
Alternative energy
EROEI concept
petroleum, power of
EROEI (energy return on energy invested)
defined
and raising chickens
Espresso
crema
Godshot
grinders
homemade, negative aspects
making, variables affecting cup
perfecting, Kyle Glanville on
tamping coffee
Espresso machines
cleaning filter
and
crema
development of
PID temperature controller
See also
Rancilio Silvia espresso maker
Expo, Maker Faire
F
Failure
fear of
mistakes, inevitability of
as teacher
Fair trade
Farenga, Pat
Fermented foods
Katz on
kombucha tea
miso
ritualistic aspects
sauerkraut
yogurt
Fertilizers
for permaculture
See also
Compost
Fidonet
Flax, into linen
Flynn Effect
Focus, state of consciousness during
Food Not Lawns
Frauenfelder, Carla
and
Craft
DIY, involvement in
DIY versus hiring pro
on Rarotonga
Frauenfelder, Jane
DIY, involvement in
electronics project
on Rarotonga
Frauenfelder, Sarina
DIY, involvement in
electronics project
ISEE, tutoring at home for
on Rarotonga
“Freedom to Learn” blog
Freud, Sigmund
Frisbie, Robert Dean
Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
( Jacobsen)
G
Gaggia, Giovanni Achille
Gallt, Jim
Garden, vegetable.
See
Vegetable garden
Garlic, planting
Gates, Bill
Gerischer, Steve
Getting Started in Electronics
(Mims)
Glanville, Kyle
Gleanings in Bee Culture
Godshot
Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, The
Google SketchUp
Gophers, in vegetable garden
Gray, Dr. Peter
Greenberg, Dan
Grotz, George
Guitars
cigar box guitars
See also
Stringed instruments
Gunzel, Dave
Gurstelle, William
H
“Hacks” series
Hahn, David
Heathkit
Heirloom seeds, passing down of
Hill, George Washington
Hoffman, Billy
Holmgren, David
Holt, John
Homegrown Evolution
Homeschooling
Homocore
Honey, production by bees
Hooptyrides.com
.
See also
Mister Jalopy
Hopkins, Rob
HotWired
Hunter-gatherer societies, children and learning in
Hybrid seeds, inferiority of
I
Ideale machine
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, The
(Thompson)
Imperfection
positive aspects of
wabi sabi
Indian Guides
Industry Standard, The
“In Praise of Idleness” (Russell)
Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea
Internet
and amateur science
bust, and freelance-journalism market
DIY sites.
See
DIY (do-it-yourself ) Internet sites
and rediscovery of DIY
service provider, first
IQ tests, Flynn Effect
Irrigation, vegetable garden
An Island to Oneself
(Neale)
J
Jacobsen, Rowan
Jalopy, Mister.
See
Mister Jalopy
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