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...your neighborhood	MANY-SITES INDEX
	...your city
		and beyond...

A Web site to facilitate
the exploration of greater Portland, Oregon...

    ...its parks, its neighborhoods, its community activities...
It's a resource for active participants in the community.
         ...Please help us add to this resource
...       ...and notify us of any errors you discover


Accurate Maps exploring a city For the west side of Portland: no "paper" streets; no missing streets: stairs & trails (all the routes)
SW Portland Neighborhoods Central Northeast Neighborhoods taking an active part in community Click on a map to go the the Web site.
Preparedness Issues Responding to trouble as a community using the Internet
OHSU Public Lectures substantive learning about health Avoid unsupported information; learn from those in the know.
Wellness the whole person Lectures from OHSU that integrate the whole person: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual health--plus the healing power of exercise.
Walk Routes Project enjoying a great city Build up a collection of great walks. Learn more about Portland.
Bike Routes traveling in a great city Portland is widely known as the country's most bike-friendly city.
SWTrails hard volunteer work for health and community New, needed trails that provided needed connections. Plus the SW Walking Map
Portland Parks treasures for the active hunting Do the year-2000 Parks Scavenger Hunt. Learn about the Eastbank Esplanade.
Portland City Wide Parks Team participation in important issues Bringing together many special focus groups and individuals, such as Neighborhood Association and district/coalition parks committees, "Friends of..." organizations, businesses, and so on...
Neighborhood Emergency Teams raising our level of competence Valuable training by the Fire Bureau: be better prepared for fire, medical emergency, rescue, organizing volunteers, record-keeping,... much more.
Neighborhood Watches raising our level of awareness Organizing the neighborhood into an alert, aware community that knows what to do when trouble threatens.
Neighbor Nite Out Picnics parties for community policing Having a good time with the community.
A Step toward understanding science vigorous, enjoyable exercise for the brain Having fun acquiring powerful skills and perhaps helping make Portland a "City With Science."

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Organize activities for wellness.
Responsibility for one's health

The three years of monthly "Odd Things About Portland" are now located HERE.

August 1, 2006
Six Keys to avoiding mistakes

August 22, 2006

See Glen Canyon before Lake Powell. Spectacular! Historic.

Da Vinci Days
Supplemental pages for 2006

NEWS ITEM April 20, 2006

"Yahoo and Microsoft don't really have the technology to go up against Google... They're going to have a hard time catching up. Google has just too many smart people working too hard on this. They are an enormous innovation engine."

Nightly Business Report, April 20, 2006

Look here to see how Google really understands real understanding, the thinking that is the power behind effective decisions--behind science, too. What's more, understanding has power everyone, every city, can benefit from. Benefits will come to those who take this seriously.

Watch here for... ??

Some Secrets of Science...
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Have you ever met
a person from Porlock
obstructing public understanding
of science?

Portland has potential. The world looks to Portland for progressive trends, meaning progress in things that really count. The Portland area has attracted Intel, Tektronics, Linus Torvalds of Linux fame, and a lot of the other computer revolution's progress-pushing industries. It is human intellect that drives such progress, and colleges and universities pepper the landscape around Portland. Reed College ranked at the very top of WICHE's* ranking of colleges and universities by intellectual disposition, and Portland's symphony orchestra is world-renowned. Art galleries abound, too.

Modern hi-tech industry is looking for scientific literacy. Let's look again at the potential for progress toward scientific literacy in Portland. Our "Silicon Forest" needs a lot of mathematical elves, eccentrically inventive leprechauns, trolls that prevent bridges to the future from being built into dangerously destructive terrain, and blithe spirits that live in, and effectively interact with, that wispy and magical world of scientific and mathematical abstraction. Let us create a fertile Forest to house such creatures. Let us, ourselves, become such beings, to the extent that we can.

What is . . . ??

...the difference between science and pseudoscience?
...the "magic" of science?
...the almost invisible (to human perceptions) terrain of science?
...the multidimensional map to getting there?

*Western Interetate Commission on Higher Education

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A new forum for information-sharing, education, and networking among people working and volunteering to make Portland's parks even better than they are today.

Portland City Wide Parks Team

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BULLETIN: Phantograms are among the most stunning of visual effects. See them at Portland's 3D Center.

July 18-20, 2003

Da Vinci Days, 2005
Da Vinci Days, 2004
Da Vinci Days, 2003
Check out some secrets of science

SEERS

DREAMERS

POETS

MATHEMATICIANS

MAGICIANS

Visit
A Little Science Project

dedicated to the exploration of that science and math

we learned
but never could use
for anything.

Explore the Physicists' Domain
Delving into the Unknown,
X

CLICK ON THE CARTOON

Research indicates that we should keep our minds active for optimum health, especially as we get older. It really pays to strain our minds with heavy mental weight lifting.

Look again!

What better way to keep mentally active than to work toward that understanding of elementary math and science which eludes so many learners...at first?

...or start looking here...

SEERS

DREAMERS

POETS

MATHEMATICIANS

MAGICIANS

Science happens . . . when it's students become mathematicians and magicians.
Pseudoscience happens . . . when they do not.

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