Author: Reed Karman

In Science we learned that wheat does not naturally contain gluten but when liquid is added to wheat the proteins in wheat form gluten.In Bible we learned that you should test spirits. Any spirit who says Jesus Christ is Lord is from God and any who does not is not from God.

Today in Bible we read about the children of God loving one another. In Case for Faith we learned about doubts being weights for faith. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Kano. It is the second largest city in Nigeria. It has 3,393,000 people. 78% of those people are Muslim. 13% are Christian. In The History of Medicine we learned about the discovery of germs.

Yesterday we started 1 John.

In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Niamey. It is the capitol of Niger. It has 1,027,000 people. 91.4% of those people are Muslim. In the History of Medicine we learned about the guy who proved Galen wrong on how the blood pumps and the purpose of the heart.

In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Cotonou. It is in Benin. 38% of the population is traditional ethnically. 37% are Christians. In our book that is in the same series as Mary Slessor. David Livingstone was preaching in a tonal language, which means that one word means something different if you say in in a different tone, so instead of preaching against sin he preached against cow dung. Barbers used to also be surgeons. On barber poles red stands for blood and white stands for bandages.

This week Mom switched up the days of some things so today is a hardish day now. In Bible we read how everyone would get along.

They are genetically modifying goats to be able to make steel out of their milk.

In our new book we started on Tuesday The History of Medicine we learned about a doctor who challenged the teachings of his teachers and an author/doctor of ancient Greece. His name was Andreas Vesalius. He was born just before midnight December 31. The year he published his book about his discoveries was the same year Nicolas Copernicus published his book about the sun being the center of the solar system. It was the start of the scientific revolution. In another book of Science we learned about enzymes. They either break apart or put together molecules. That led to learning that canned pineapple is precooked therefore deactivating the enzymes that break down things.

In Bible we read about Sin in the family and priests to be punished. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Tripoli, the capitol of Libya. It means natural abrasive. Which indeed it is because the city is named after tripoli which is an ancient replacement for sandpaper.

In Bible we read about God being angry with the Israelites for giving the blind and stolen sheep of their flocks for sacrifices. In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Tunis the capitol of Tunisia. Tunis has 2,100,000 people. 98.9% of the population is Muslim. We read two poems about one about an octopus and another about a skunk.

When George Washington had a cold they blood let him and he died from blood loss.

Artery is the Greek word for “I carry air”. Greeks didn’t know arteries carried blood.

In 100 Gateway Cities we learned about Algiers the capitol of Algeria. I has 3,574,000 people.