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The Science Of Character: 6 Categories & 24 Traits What is character? What kinds of ideas and related characteristics do we associate with it? What contributes to its development? Can certain...

Social Media Stalking Is A Thing We all love to share our lives via social media. What we eat. Who we love. Where we are. What we're doing there. When...

Every Single Satellite Orbiting The Earth Presented (mostly) without commentary: What must the aliens think? Every Single Satellite Orbiting The Earth

So Kazuhiro Tsuji recently finished the most amazing sculpture of a bearded antebellum American president you've ever seen. It's not a photoshop or digital model, but a real thing you...

How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Facebook by Terry Heick I was hesitant to get on the facebook train. Everyone I knew “had a facebook” before I did....

It’s tough out there for students. Tuition rates are high, student loans are looming, and chances are, you barely have two pennies to rub together. Retailers can sympathize with that,...

This is an incredible video of daily life in New York City--and an excellent idea for a project in a classroom. What effect is being used? What's the simplest way...

There is a kind of unwritten rule among writers that you don’t criticize colleagues’ work too harshly, because they understand just how hard it is to produce great pieces. And...

In fifty years, as a planet we've landed on the moon--in fact we've gone there 73 times, visited Venus 43 ties, flung probes to the edges of our solar system,...

The following is a guest post from Listen & Learn, a platform that supports foreign language learning for academics, among other contexts, by using native language speakers worldwide. From apps...

Approaching Mars at over 13,000 mph, the descent only slows to around 1000 mph after entering Mars' atmosphere, at which point a 100 lb parachute will deploy, slowing the rover...

After leaping from the stratosphere on March 15, Felix Baumgartner decided that 71,580 feet wasn't high enough. So he jumped from 96,640 feet--18 miles above the surface of the earth,...

Creepy/Haunting/whatdoesthishavetodowithinnovativeeducation post time. In April of 1986, the worst nuclear accident in the world's history occurred in the Ukraine when reactor 4 melted down. While what happened that day--and in...