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More and more folks are asking why I am telling the story of Building the Ravenel Bridge and Unbuilding the Grace and Pearman Bridges. I have a passion for learning and how to convey to others the fun in learning. Learning is all about brain training and learning creates options for us and more options give us flexibility in the way we care for our families, friends and communities - often in ways that we could not anticipate.

Early learning centers were around story tellers and monastaries because that is where the experiences and books were. Over time, no university could survive without its own library of resources and if I wanted to learn something I had to travel to the local community or university library.

The Internet evaporates distance - so when I need to learn something, my travel is from wherever I am to the nearest web browser. My view is that the world is now the library, the Internet makes the world's learning opportunities available to all, and Google is the card catalog (even more).

This week's work (Dec 1, 2005) with Mickey Rogers and Advanced Blasting Services taught me a lot and last night I decided to add links to learning resources that enable you to chase your curiosity and learn more about implosions or sequencing explosive charges. Now I think its time to backtrack and add learning links to other stories - about excavators, their operators, about project management, and iron worker acrobatics. So I created this new section called The Learning Center (in the menu bar).

There is another very selfish reason for introducing this change. The web access statistics for all my scientific work, spiders etc show that about 80% of the viewers spend less than 2 minutes on my web pages. However with either the Ravenel page or this Unbuilding page, < 49% of visitors spend < 2 minutes on these pages. 42% of visitors spend > 2 minutes on these pages. So if I have your attention, I'm going to try to increase the learning opportunities for you, your friends and your kids. -

If you have suggestions, know of links or ideas that want a home within some of the story segments, send me your ideas email. Frank 12/2/2005.