Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
Adults Education
I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear.
Why should you read “The Master and Margarita”? - Alex Gendler
Adults Education
Get to know the Russian classic “The Master and Margarita,” a genre-defying blend of political satire and occult mysticism about a visit from the Devil.
How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another
Adults Education
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangroves one woman is faced with the erasure of her beloved home.
Why Machines That Bend Are Better
Adults Education
Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great.
How to learn any language in six months
Adults Education
Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams.
How To Cram For Your Exam
Adults Education
Try these study tips when you are down to the wire!
Ultimate Super Bowl Snack Food Recipes • Tasty
Adults Education
Make these delicious snacks for any watch party
Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!
Adults Education
Humans love to explore. Strangely enough even horrible places – like Mars. Let’s see how building a Mars base could work and how insanely nerve-wracking exactly it would be.
How Deadly Are Gambit's Exploding Cards?
Adults Education
The Ragin' Cajun is known for his explosive power and his signature weapon of choice, playing cards, but how dangerous could they be? Kyle stacks the deck on this week's Because Science!
Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.
Adults Education
Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.
Teaching Housing and New Desks for Nalube Primary School
Adults Education
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The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler
Adults Education
Sisyphus was both a clever ruler who made his city prosperous and a devious tyrant who seduced his niece and killed visitors to show off his power.
Liberals vs Conservatives
Adults Education
Are Republicans and Democrats different because of biology?
How Some Words Get Forgetted
Adults Education
It's the Great American Read!
How Parents Get In The Way of Career Plans
Adults Education
Most modern parents say that all they want for their kids in the world of work is that they be 'happy'. But it's often a good deal more complicated than that, and parents are frequently hard at work shaping what their kids think of as good and bad careers.
Gun Scare At School
Adults Education
It started and was going just like any normal day in high school - until Serena was in English class that is, and things went wrong in a hurry, and in a big way.
How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce
Adults Education
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon.
Grammar's great divide: The Oxford comma - TED-Ed
Adults Education
If you read "Bob, a DJ and a clown" on a guest list, are three people coming to the party, or only one? That depends on whether you're for or against the Oxford comma -- perhaps the most hotly contested punctuation mark of all time. When do we use one? Can it really be optional, or is there a universal rule? TED-Ed explores both sides of this comma conundrum.
How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce
Adults Education
Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence-which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.