The Power of Stories to Build a Kinder World
TeachersLanguageReadingTeacher CafeSocietyCreativityIf you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)
The Ancient City of Sela | Lost Cities With Albert Lin
AdultsHistoryTechnologyTravelAlbert Lin is in the ancient city of Sela, Jordan looking for clues that the Nabateans once inhabited this area.
Primitive Technology: 4 years of primitive technology
AdultsConstructionHumanNatureTechnologyDIY4 years of primitive technology.
1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
AdultsScienceSpaceTechnologyGetting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.
Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?
AdultsEducationHumanPsychologyLanguageLearning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.
Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior?
AdultsHumanPsychologyScienceMathSolve this classic game theory challenge: given integers from 0 to 100, what would the whole number closest to ⅔ of the average of all numbers guessed be?
How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?
AdultsNatureScienceWorldEnvironmentTrees can take an astounding amount of carbon out of the air, which is good, because we need to do that times a trillion.
Why Trees Are Out to Get You
AdultsHumanNatureScienceSocial MediaInternet CultureHuge thanks to all the YouTubers who organized this.
How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful
TeachersTeacher CafeVocabularyWritingCreativityWriters harness that fear not by revealing horrors, but by leaving the audience hanging in a state of suspense. Victoria Smith gives some tips for adding suspense to your writing.
550 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing
TeachersEducationTeacher CafeWritingQuestions that invite students to tell stories, describe memories, make observations, imagine possibilities, and reflect on who they are and what they believe.