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Ok, so I made this tweet the other day.

The question was:
"You suddenly find yourself on-stage for your own TED Talk. With no prior planning, what's a topic you can discuss for 18 minutes?"
And my answer was:
"What makes comics such an effective teaching tool (for all kinds of topics!! From academic subjects to workable practices!) and how to translate raw text information into communicative images that represent the specific points being made."

And that got me thinkin' about how I've actually BEEN MEANING to make some kind of instructional guide/lecture thing about how to make educational comics for, like, a million years. 

I still don't know if I'll do it or not, but in the event that I do... 

What's an informational block of text that you'd like to see comic-ified? 

Please submit your response as a reply to this post in the following format:
1) Subject
2) Wikipedia URL for subject
3) Single most important/interesting paragraph from said Wikipedia entry

For Example:

1) Paleobotany
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobotany
3) Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeography), and the evolutionary history of plants, with a bearing upon the evolution of life in general. A synonym is paleophytology. It is a component of paleontology and paleobiology. The prefix palaeo- means "ancient, old",[1] and is derived from the Greek adjective παλαιός, palaios.[2] Paleobotany includes the study of terrestrial plant fossils, as well as the study of prehistoric marine photoautotrophs, such as photosynthetic algae, seaweeds or kelp. A closely related field is palynology, which is the study of fossilized and extant spores and pollen.

I don't promise to actually follow through on this, but at least it'll be cool to see a sampling of interesting subjects from you folks :3 And- who knows! -maybe I will follow through! Wouldn't that be cool??? What a beautiful dream...

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Hugh Eckert

1) Dervla Murphy 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervla_Murphy 3) In 1963 Murphy set off on her first long-distance bicycle tour, a self-supported trip from Ireland to India. Taking a pistol along with other equipment aboard her Armstrong Cadet men's bicycle (named Rozinante in allusion to Don Quixote's steed, and always known as Roz), she passed through Europe during one of the worst winters in years. In Yugoslavia, Murphy began to write a journal instead of mailing letters. In Iran she used her gun to frighten off a group of thieves, and "used unprintable tactics" to escape from an attempted rapist at a police station. She received her worst injury of the journey on a bus in Afghanistan, when a rifle butt hit her and fractured three ribs; however, this only delayed her for a short while. She wrote appreciatively about the landscape and people of Afghanistan, calling herself "Afghanatical" and claiming that the Afghan "is a man after my own heart". In Pakistan, she visited Swat (where she was a guest of the last wali, Miangul Aurangzeb) and the mountain area of Gilgit. The final leg of her trip took her through the Punjab region and over the border to India towards Delhi. Her journal was later published by John Murray as her first book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

Chelsea Watson

There's an awesome kids comic series called Science Comics, that my 6th graders love! My favorite is the one on Coral Reefs, but they're all good.