This week, play with an incredibly detailed doll house styled world in the new My PlayHome Plus which brings together the entire My PlayHome series. Then, learn about women in history with Lessons in Herstory. Finally, see the images of a massive dust cloud from the Sahara that actually fertilizes other continents. App Friday will be on summer break for July and part of August, but app submissions are always welcome for planning future posts.
Garry Froehlich
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My PlayHome Plus
By PlayHome Software Ltd
My PlayHome Plus is a digital dollhouse app (and one of the first and best in the category) and brings the incredibly popular My PlayHome series of apps together into one package. Play with cute characters and objects in an array of settings including a house, a school, a hospital, stores, and now a food court. The sheer amount of interactive objects, and attention to detail in the app is incredible – from changing CDs that play real music, to bouncing on a trampoline, to pouring drinks, and the list goes on and on. The house comes free with the app, and other areas can be unlocked with in-app purchases (or unlock free if you’ve already purchased them in the other apps). This is a classic, high quality app, and not to be missed.
Lessons in Herstory
by Goody, Silverstein & Partners, Inc.
Lessons in Herstory shares the lives and accomplishments of (by my count) 70 women throughout history. It is intended as an augmented reality app where you point your phone camera at an image in a textbook, or on the lessonsinherstory.com website, and a related story about a woman will appear. Fortunately, you can also use the app without AR and scroll directly to the stories of the women. Each woman gets a single well-designed page with facts and images, and is well worth a look for those with an interest in herstory.
Unusual Saharan Dust Plume
“Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites and ESA’s Aeolus satellite show the extent of this year’s summer dust plume, dubbed ‘Godzilla,’ on its journey across the Atlantic.”
While the particles are dangerous to breathe, parts of the ocean and Amazon actually depend on dust front the Sahara.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Satellites_track_unusual_Saharan_dust_plume
