Did you know that the kingdoms of life that are typically taught in most schools is not the most up-to-date method of classification?
In the United States, many text books use the six kingdom classifications that go like this: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria while English and Australian textbooks use Robert Whittaker’s five kingdoms [...]
I recently ran across an awesome inventor who could very well revolutionize the way we think about water among other things. His name is Michael Pritchard and he’s figured out how to solve the worlds’ water contamination problems. Check this out. Click here if you can’t see the video.
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I wanted my child to learn what seems like the lost art of sewing. It is such a practical skill and yet it’s not passed down enough because of our hurried lifestyles. So, a friend loaned me her book called Stitches and Pins: A Beginning Sewing Book for Girls.
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Is there yet another reason to get an iPhone? If you are a student or educator, the answer is yes. Apple is now offering over 7000+ campus textbooks from leading publishers to the iPhone and iTouch at a reduced price because they are being transmitted digitally.
Pattie Maes, an associate professor and Pranav Mistry, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab, have teamed up to almost bring us the ‘SixthSense’ technology.