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5 Things You Can Do to Recognize World Food Day
October 16, 2013 is World Food Day. Here are five things you can do to recognize the need to appreciate and share the bounty: 1. Give to your local food…
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Literary Fiction for Hearts and Minds: 12 Books For Kids (and adults)
A recent study by The New School shows that reading literary fiction improves people’s ability to empathize with others. We know that any kind of reading is important for kids,…
Feeling the Earth Move the World Over: This calls for a THL Earthquake Quiz!
Recent reports of multiple quakes in Yellowstone National Park and a quake that caused an island to emerge in Pakistan sent us looking for more information. Earthquakes occur when plates…
The Prince and The Tadpoles — Stronger Than Steel
No – it isn’t a fairy tail, er…tale. …So then, what’s beautifully multicolored yet transparent, and shaped like a dainty little tadpole yet with a tail that is capable of…
What Does Meritocracy Mean in Silicon Valley?
by Penny Noyce Last week, NPR’s Marketplace aired a pair of short segments examining the notion of meritocracy in Silicon Valley. The first segment defined meritocracy as “ a grand…
It’s That Simple: Building Blocks Help Build Early Math Skills
Kids have been building with blocks forever, but new research draws a direct line between using connecting blocks and developing good math and science skills. Researchers at the University of…
Pandas Are Making a Comeback. Time for a THL Quiz.
On August 23, 2013, the National Zoo in Washington D.C. welcomed a new baby panda. It’s a girl, and you can see her on one of the Zoo’s two Panda…
Guest Blog: An Arsenic Theory of Zombies
by Deborah Blum This post appeared originally on ScienceBlogs and has been re-bloggged with permission from the author. As a dedicated chemistry nut – I mean, of course, enthusiast –…
Happy 194th Birthday to Leon Foucault, Inventor of the Famous Pendulum
You could say that French physicist Leon Foucault (full name: Jean Bernard Leon Foucault) made discoveries that moved heaven and earth. Most famous for the Foucault pendulum, which demonstrates how the Earth…
A New Kind of Museum Experience Inspired by the Desire to Honor 9/11
In Jake Barton’s TED talk released yesterday, he outlined the technologies that will characterize the 21st century museum experience, in which, as one museum director put it, “people don’t visit…
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