Education

Michael Tertsea did not have an easy upbringing in his hometown, Nigeria.   Not long into his teenage years, he was given a scholarship to leave his homeland so that he could play basketball at the John Carroll School outside Baltimore. When graduation was slowly approaching, his high school newspaper wrote a story about Tertsea’s family indicating […]

Here are 9 places that, according to Staysure, are either gone or on the verge of disappearing. Number 9: Chacaltaya Glacier, Bolivia. The South American site was once popular among skiers and for a time even boasted the world’s highest ski lift. After decades of decline, the mass vanished in 2005. Number 8: Boeung Kak Lake, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. […]

In the U.S. electoral system, states decide on how they nominate candidates. Why do some states have caucuses while others have primaries?

In addition to being delicious, chocolate has been found to have a number of mood and health-boosting benefits for humans.  Dogs, on the other hand, don’t fare quite so well after scarfing down the sweet treat. According to a video published by the American Chemical Society, chocolate, especially the dark variety, contains a molecule called […]

An unlikely songster, head of the Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I., Matt Glendinning, sings his announcement of a snow day in a music video parody on YouTube.

Ric Elias was on the plane that crashed into the Hudson River in January 2009. He shares what he learned as his the plane went down, and how it's changed his life since.

The edible garbage left behind by humans in New York City helps to feed rats, pigeons and cockroaches. Now ants are believed to be a way to combat both the waste, and the pests.

Why does your furry little friend get so excited about catnip? Catnip actually contains a psychoactive compound that strongly affects cats.

A new study suggests that workers aren't as productive at their jobs as they would like to be. Here are the top 5 things that highly productive people do every single day.

Countries in the East do not have Halloween, but they do celebrate something similar.

Teachers give tests to find out what their students know. But tests do a lot more than that and can have a powerful effect on what a student remembers.

It’s no secret that art instruction in public schools is hurting—not only for funding, but for applicable skills.

We’re homeschoolers and we’re proud of it.

Earnest Wright & Sons of Sheffield, England, is one of the last companies to create scissors by hand.

This video narrated by Kenneth C. Davis teaches you all you need to know to be an intelligent, informed July 4th partygoer.

For many people, enjoying music results in noticeable physical reactions – sweaty palms or a shiver down the spine. Music can cause the release of dopamine in your body, which provides a feeling of immense pleasure and reward.

Games are often decided by penalty kicks in the knockout stage of the World Cup. To better understand penalty kicks, we refer to ESPN's Sports Science, which measures the penalty kick with batting in baseball.

"There was machetes, horns with shells wrapped around it, a whole bunch of animal skulls — I think two coyote skulls, a goat skull, and a bunch of bird skulls. And then when the fire pot broke, we saw an actual man full of human skulls."

The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ is often associated with one who is crazy, which is odd because crazy people are known to have crazy hair, crazy eyes, even crazy signs, but rarely crazy hats.  Regardless, the most well known use of the phrase is of course “the Mad Hatter” from the classic children’s book […]

Grasping at straws is one last attempt to save yourself from the complete and utter embarrassment of failure. Frankly, it is a position you do not want to be in. And yet, the act of straw grasping remains quite common. Sometimes the straws are successfully grasped…and sometimes they aren’t. You might say that grasping at […]