These Octopus Kites Are Nightmare Fuel
A truly awful kite is this streaming nightmare–a heinous, black monstrosity whose limbs move like terrifyingly-large amoeba.
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How To Stay Safe During A Hurricane
Staying Safe During A Hurricane by Terry Heick Right off the bat, let me say that I’m (very obviously) not an expert in hurricanes. If you want government-endorsed and specific FEMA-created checklists, you’re not going to get that here. I used to fly airplanes as a teen and grew up fascinated with severe weather, but…
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Thermonuclear Art: 30 Minutes Of Solar Flares At 4K Resolution
Thermonuclear Art: 30 Minutes Of Solar Flares At 4K Resolution by TeachThought Staff NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is one of the less well-known NASA resources. SDO is “the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth.”…
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How To Be Happy: 25 Things That Happy People Do
Is happiness something that can be caused, or is it primarily the result of a genetic sequence that can only be adjusted in small degrees?
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Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
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Preventing Youth Suicide Through Lessons Of Hope
Schools for Hope is a free curriculum designed to prevent youth suicide by sharing tools to find & maintain hope.
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A Very, Very Powerful Motivational Video For Teens
What motivates this student to “succeed” in school? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? Does it ebb & flow? Is it perishable altogether?
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It’s Time To Stop Talking About Bullying & Talk Kindness Instead
We have to change the way we talk about bullying. I’m convinced that we have to confront it with its psychological opposite – kindness.
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The Science Of Character: 6 Categories & 24 Traits
What kinds of ideas and characteristics do we associate with character? What contributes to its development? Can attributes be cultivated?
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Writer-Fight: The 10 Best Put-Downs in Literary History
A List Of The Best Literary Put-Downs 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 yet, over the years handfuls of famous writers have taken huge exceptions to this rule, often with harsh…
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The Terrifying Physics Of Landing On Mars
Landing On Mars: The Terrifying Physics 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 to around 370 mph, a little over half the speed of sound. At these speeds, the parachute must be…
