March 2, 2009 21:12:01
People who doodle are smart - they pay more attention and remember things better than those who do not doodle. That's the scientific result of a study done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth and published by the magazine Applied Cognitive P...
February 18, 2009 20:48:41
Ben 10? No! Pen 10 - Obama Style
When President Barack Obama signed the $789 billion Stimulus Bill on Tuesday Feb. 17th in Colorado on live TV the audience and press were scratching their heads with laughter. The president used a brand new pen to sign each of the 10 signatures the document needed to become law. As odd as thi...
February 14, 2009 16:12:07
One hot, summer day my brother, Tom, the businessman in the family who seemed to know all about why adults had piles of cash (because he was 13 months older) announced that we should make some money. I was 6 years old and I knew how to make paper airplanes and hammer a nail, but I was unfamili...
December 9, 2008 21:01:02
A 20 year old Chinese girl from Zhuhai in Guangdong province became partially deaf after a passionate kiss from her boyfriend. The girl was admitted to a hospital with complete loss of hearing in her left ear. The doctor who treated the girl explained his diagnosis. "The kiss reduced the pr...
November 29, 2008 21:01:08
This is a simple flash animation tutorial showing the basic construction for the frontal face view of the Walt Disney character, Donald Duck. You start with a square and then divide the square into 4 sections vertically and 3 sections horizontally. You then draw a circle within the original squa...
November 24, 2008 16:49:26
Actor Johnny Depp was in London at the end of 2010 shooting final scenes of the newest sequel to the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, On Stranger Tides, which was released in Europe this month. His presence caught the attention of an 11 year old British school girl who decided to write a pe...
November 23, 2008 17:02:38
By Don Hinrichsen - A new teen magazine called "LOVE" is stirring up the youth in Mongolia, the least populated country in Asia. Like the rest of this vast continent, Mongolia is rapidly urbanizing. One third of the country’s 2.5 million people live in the c...
November 17, 2008 20:54:57
The modern meaning of the word "spam" comes from the Spam Skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus . In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a gro...
October 14, 2008 20:31:56
They don’t stay closed. They won’t go up half the time. Pull too hard and the pull comes off! Zippers are probably the first machines any of us learn to use as kids. But who first thought up the zipper and how long ago was that? It all started 115 years ago in Chicago. A...
September 30, 2008 20:56:11
"THE DANCE OF THE HONEY BEE - video"
When bees buzz, they talk to each other, right? Wrong! Bees buzz because their wings flap so fast. They talk by dancing - and what a dance it is! (Watch the vidoe) The special jitterbug-like dance of the honey bee was first noticed in 1944 by Austrian naturalist Karl von Frisch. Bee...
September 30, 2008 20:52:13
THE AMAZING STORY OF TOILET PAPER
The amazing history of TP started back in China AD 1391 when the Bureau of Imperial Supplies began making 720,000 sheets of TP every year. Each seet measured 2ft by 3ft (61cm by 91 cm) and was just for the Emperors. Many years later in 1857 Joseph Gayetty's New York company was the first to pack...
September 30, 2008 20:46:44
Climate Change & Kangaroo Farts
Did you know that stomach gas from farm animals makes one fourth of all the world's greenhouse gasses? All farm animals eat grass, hay, and seed and digesting all these plants creates a gas in animal stomachs called Methane. Cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs, and horses all "fart" Methane ...
September 20, 2008 16:48:07
How many times have you heard the words, “I can’t draw!” or “Drawing is a talent you inherit!” With such words people often dismiss their own abilities and spend the rest of their lives muttering the phrase “If only I could draw it I could explain it much bet...
August 1, 2008 14:20:56
A pencil is quiet, clean, odorless, inexpensive, and lightweight. You can slip it in your pocket and take it anywhere - it is a secret friend and probably the most common utensil of our daily lives. Dozens of them lay around our homes and offices and in our pockets, yet we hardly think about it ...