Think that all spiders are mean, evil looking meat eaters? Well, you have just being proven to be wrong! Scientists who have being studying a tropical jumping spider, the Bagheera kiplingi, in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Costa Rica between 2001 and 2008 have made an amazing discovery. This “utterly surreal” spider’s diet consists almost completely…
Do you think that paintball is just a game where everyone shoots each other with fake bullets that make your clothes dirty? Well, my friend, let me tell you, it is much more than just that. It is about teamwork, and what can teamwork brings you? ART! Don’t believe that people can make messy paintball…
The show all kids love is turning 40! On November 10th, Sesame Street will celebrate its 40th Anniversary. It first aired on November 10th, 1969, and has become the longest running show on United States television. The Sesame Street characters were originally created by Jim Henson. They became loved by children all over the world, and have formed a…
Whether it’s basketball or piano, this saying will always be true. The more you practice and practice, the better you get. But is the right type of practice more important than we think? As you repeat an action over and over again, your muscles become accostomed to how the action is performed and how it…
When an object gets way too big, we start to lose the meaning of its size. It is easy to imagine how big a city is, maybe possible to comprehend the vastness of earth, or even for some, the giant-like sun. Of course, these are the objects we see or interact with everyday; we have…
Now that Halloween has ended and you lost track of the countless amounts of candy that had passed through your mouth. It’s time to give your teeth a proper cleaning! [youtube MUQevxovDSs] The history of the toothbrush goes back as far as 3500 BC. The Chinese where thought to have created the first toothbrush, with…
Upon first seeing this post, you may have paused for a moment to wonder if Halloween had already passed, or whether it was all a sugar-induced dream. Alas, it is over, but the sheer creativity, horror, originality, effort, and pyrotechnics of these pumpkins live on. Check out the galleries and start planning for next year.…
It’s great to see how much of a positive difference youth can make in our world today. Hero Holiday organizes trips that are a fun way to make a difference and learn great leadership skills through participating in humanitarian relief projects and assisting those living in poverty. You can sign up for trips on your own or…
Looking for a way to make your social class a little more entertaining? I present to you: Historical Tweets. With the ability to browse by time period, there’s an image to spice up every project. But if you’re looking for an escape from all things school-related, there are plenty of pop-culture mockeries as well. My…
Everyone likes to have fun, right? If we make something fun, will we change what we do for the better? Volkswagen took this little theory and decided to test it out. They installed piano stairs at the exit of a subway station at Odenplan in Stockholm, Sweden, and after observing for one day, 66% more people…
These days, it’s more common for schools to teach their students how to analyze or interpret literature than it is for them to teach students proper grammar and punctuation. While my thoughts on that could fill a whole other post, take a look at this “website” to see rogue quotation marks and nonsensical quotes. Maybe our grammar is…
There is a lot going on in the world these days. From economic depression, to terrorist attacks, war, Sarah Palin and more, our news channels are plagued with so many examples of human horror and insanity that we often avoid those dreaded stations – opting, instead, for some memories of childhood on YTV, learning about…
From Spiderman to Superman we have all dreamt of having our own mind blowing superpowers. Sadly we cannot all be like Clark Kent, so for now we can only continue to dream and watch X-Men DVD’s. But for one man, he has gotten pretty close to this reality. Say hello to ‘The Invisible Man’. Who…
Well, “the silence whistles” kinda makes sense, but isn’t stop motion just plain ridiculous? Things cannot stop and move at the same time. Well, in the world of stop motion films or movies, that can happen. What is Stop Motion? Simply put, it is an animation techniques also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame during which…
News stories these days have been getting crazier and crazier. First a man jumping into the lion cage, now a runaway boy making an escape in a balloon? Falcon Heene was reported to the police by his parents, because they thought he had been on-board a homemade helium balloon that was left untethered and blew away.…