This is the homepage for a site I have wanted to build for many years. At last few tiny starts have been made, more will follow, if anyone seems interested.

The Flat Earth Academy will a website where any enterprising person can learn useful "stuff". My background is in the sciences, so I suspect that is where the first and most extensive Good Stuff will be.

The best page in the site at the moment is my introduction to chemistry.

I've also made a start on the Flat Earth Academy guide to biology.

There's also my extensive course on using an Arduino (a great microprocessor for schools or hobbyists of any age) which is put together under the philosophy of the Flat Earth Academy. The microprocessor course is finished; the Academy is a-building!

New, Feb 2012: Introduction to stock market investing- Explanation and thoughts from an experienced amateur. This isn't quite "on target" for the primary intentions of Flat-Earth-Academy.com... but it is similar! New... give it a try, tell me what you think?

I was a teacher for twenty years. I taught 8 year olds, and I taught courses equivalent to the first year of US university. So I hope I have an idea of what might be a useful framework of knowledge for any "educated" person.

I also left teaching... along with 100,000 other qualified teachers in the UK... before I reached retirement age. So you may assume that I take a somewhat skeptical view of what goes on in schools.

I hope that what you find here will be useful, and perhaps even, in some cases, interesting to readers of all ages. I would welcome your thoughts.... is the site of any use? Where are you, broadly speaking... say the nearest large city to you? How old are you? What do you/ did you think of your schooling? I don't need your email address, if you (or anyone controlling your internet use) are worried about that. If you do supply it, I have no plans to "sell it on", pester you with marketing emails, etc. But think about it: There's no point in me to putting that on this page, is there? If I am scrupulous, I wouldn't do those things. If I am unscrupulous, I would put something like that here, and then do those things anyway, wouldn't I? Think about what I said: "Think about it...". That is one of my reasons for creating this site. I want you to think more... as a habit, all the time, as your life slips past....

"Thinking" is all well and good. Knowing stuff comes in handy, too, and you can do more about your fund of knowledge than you can about your capacity to think.

So... have a dip into these pages. See how much you know already. See if you can learn a few new things. If you send positive feedback, I will try to expand the Flat Earth Academy. If no one finds it of any use, I'll spare myself the work.

Besides the topics mentioned above, there are two pages in the site, two brief notes about things I thought kind of neat in science....

A page about a bird's unusual choice for a nest site.

A page about a plant's unusual roots.

My main site is Sheepdog Software

Then there's my Arunet site.

Ad from page's editor: Yes.. I do enjoy compiling these things for you... hope they are helpful. However.. this doesn't pay my bills!!! If you find this stuff useful, (and you run an MS-DOS or Windows PC) please visit my freeware and shareware page, download something, and circulate it for me? Links on your page to this page would also be appreciated!

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