Robyn van Eck

Christian, wife & mama, director of Bonham Conservatory, author of Grammar of Grace.

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

@SteveDeaceShow I'm having a mommy-daughter weekend with my 18YO, and she wants to watch a JKF assassination documentary tonight. I'm not sure I trust Grok's advice on this one. What would you recommend for us?

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

More homeschool great stuff today: https://t.co/I7NuRmaeuI

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

Homeschool moment:

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

"You know what this place really needs? A hyperscale data center"

Said no Floridian ever

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

Reminds me of some people who dumped a fortune’s worth of tea into the sea…

https://t.co/IhlCnSbH5y

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

Timeline peg: Modern Period of the Arts Rejects Beauty and Excellence

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

The Archibald Prize is Australia’s most prestigious art prize.

This is the winning entry 100 years ago vs the winning entry this year.

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

You can homeschool! It’s hard, but get your kids back at home with you where they belong!

https://t.co/Z1aTH0yzKA

[Nickitruesdell @nickitruesdell]

Reading books (and being read to) is the number one way to develop good language skills. No amount of grammar courses, vocabulary workbooks, or English classes can compensate for a lack of reading.

In our homeschool, each child reads (and hears) multiple books every year. Fiction, non-fiction, numerous authors, multiple styles…this is what develops vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and writing.

Sadly, government schools are overwhelmingly resorting to “selected text” instead of whole books, with many kids graduating without having read a single book in high school.

You can homeschool your kids with just a big stack of library books and they will far exceed their government school peers in multiple ways.

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨GROK's CONGRESSIONAL MAP: What would the MOST FAIR U.S. House map look like if we followed the Founding Fathers’ Principles?

- Apportion seats strictly by population (census)

- Draw compact, contiguous districts inside each state only

- No partisan data, no racial engineering, no weird shapes

- Prioritize whole counties & communities

RESULT: A clean map with 265-285 R to 150-170 D seats in a 50/50 nation.

Not gerrymandering - just geography.

This is what neutral, compact redistricting naturally produces.

The Founders wanted local geographic representation, not national proportional math.

No salamanders.
No tentacles.
Just logical districts.

True fairness under the Constitution isn’t forcing 50/50 seats.

It’s letting Americans vote where they actually live.

THIS MAP HONORS THE CONSTITUTION'S DESIGN.

What do you think?

MAP VIA: @JeremiahW2044

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

We should have much lower tolerance for the nepo-baby communists

They might seem too incompetent to be dangerous, but they are re-popularizing the most dangerous ideology of all time

100,000,000 people were killed by communists in the 20th century

This is what happens every time communists gain critical power

[Brett Baggett @BrettaBaggett]

Blessed are the peacemakers.
Cursed are the peacekeepers.

A peaceKEEPER smells smoke coming from one of the bedrooms and mildly sits sipping their coffee saying, “This is fine. The living room is not burning.”

A peaceMAKER, on the other hand, rushes into the bedroom with a fire extinguisher, even at risk to their own welfare, to put out the fire.

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” Matthew 5:9

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The DOJ's deadline to charge Fauci for lying under oath about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan is in 6 days. We can’t allow the statute of limitations to run out. He MUST be charged!

Agree? RT.

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

This video demonstrates the absurdity of contemporary Christian music today, that is the same tune, different words, and its meaningless messages like Bethel and Hillsong. It’s all about feelings.

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

this advice from @MattHennessey in @WSJFreeEx mirrors the advice I receive from my older patients.

I routinely ask my older patients for life advice and repeatedly they tell me “have as many children as you can”

[Brett Baggett @BrettaBaggett]

“If you do not worship God in your family, you are living in positive sin; you may be quite sure you do not care for the souls of your family. If you neglect to spread a meal for your children to eat, would it not be said that you did not care for their bodies? And if you do not lead your children and servants to the green pastures of God’s Word, and to seek the living water, how plain is it that you do not care for their souls? Do it regularly, morning and evening. It is more needful than your daily food – more needful than your work.”

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

He’s dead on.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Brain scans are revealing early dementia-like changes in kids and teens from heavy screen use.

60 Minutes Australia reported toddlers spending just 2–3 hours daily on devices already show abnormal white matter development. Teens averaging 6–8 hours display widened brain ridges and thinning in key areas — patterns that mirror early Alzheimer’s.

Excessive screens appear to weaken neural pathways that normally strengthen through real-world movement, play, and face-to-face interaction.

We’re also seeing the first IQ drops in recorded history, plus a nearly 400% rise in early-onset dementia signs among 35–44 year olds. Correlation, not proven causation — but devices are the major new variable.

This is one of those reports that makes you rethink default habits. The convenience of screens is undeniable, but the potential long-term brain impacts on developing kids are hard to ignore.

We may be unintentionally running a massive experiment on the next generation’s cognitive health.

Are we underestimating the risks of heavy screen time, or is this concern overblown?

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

Exactly.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

We're asking kids to handle things most adults can't

[Robyn van Eck @robynoboe]

As you read through… actual 0% of the jobs created went to American white men. Zero percent.

Homeschool moms, this is something we & our husbands need to be strategizing about!

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Report: 9 out of every 10 new jobs in the US since 2020 have gone to foreigners 😭
https://t.co/G33nRjtmkV

[Foundation to Abolish Abortion @AbolitionistFAA]

Feminism has no place in the fight to abolish abortion.