Do you find so many things (online courses, for example) won't run on Mac. We have converted to Mac except for one computer because I'm afraid we'll need it for a course or game or something. Wish we could cut that umbilical cord!

We've not done any online courses. But there are many games which are PC only. If you have a working PC, I wouldn't get rid of it. But I usually find a similar product for Mac eventually. Thinks like HeyMath! or StarFall etc run just as well on a mac.

Yes, both Civilization IV and it's older cousin, Alpha Centauri, run on our Mac. Just purchase the Mac version. In Alpha Centauri, you can win the game by several different strategies... military victory (conquering the other 6? races), technological victory (gathering all the research in the technology tree... techs build on each other, so you can't research quantum power when you are still inventing the wheel, so to speak), governmental victory (elected governor by all of the races), and several others... maybe a victory by gathering wealth? I haven't played Civ IV in a while, but it is also by Sid Meier and is very similar, but based on world history.

Sounds cool!

I love the palindromes story. My dd loves spelling particularly backwards spelling. We started playing the "spelling game" when she was 5/6. Instead of talking we spell out conversation. Full sentences at a time. She has since moved on to saying and spelling things backwards. Each night she begs to go through the alphabet. I say a word that starts with z backwards and then she says it forwards and spells it and we go through the entire alphabet like that. Each of us taking turns with letters. Typically she wants a theme...animals or food etc..

You know, we've discovered that there aren't a lot of animals that begin with N. Which seems surprising!

We have thought of:

Newt
Nautilus
Nematode
Narwhal

OMG! Does your kid make you do this too? I love this board. It is amazing to find other kids with these wonderfully quirky interests and passions.

Needlefish

Know any foods that begin with V?

vegemite
vermicelli
veal
varnishkes
venison
vichyssoise
vinegar

Now that just makes me wanna break out in song (and show my age, !)

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/601593.html

(I like to cheat, !)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrPyv0osQM

oops - just realized that this was under topic GT research. sorry....