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How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another

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As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangroves one woman is faced with the erasure of her beloved home.

We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review

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Most educators obsess about the quality of their work and are afraid, at best, to disappoint their department and mentors, and at worst, to have their name blacklisted among the community.

G Suite Updates

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G Suite is making support and learning resources easier to find in several G Suite apps.They’re doing this by adding a new quick-access button to some products, and changing the Help menu options in others.

How to spot a pyramid scheme - Stacie Bosley

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Learn the techniques and tricks that pyramid schemes use to recruit new members and how to avoid being fooled yourself.

April Fool's Day

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April Fool's Day is the perfect time to play some light-hearted pranks on your friends, family, and co-workers; and if you’re a teacher, pulling an unexpected fast one on your students can be entertaining -- and memorable -- for everyone.

Earth Hour 2019

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This toolkit contains assets which help raise awareness of the nature all around us, tools to empower you and the people around you to take action and advocate for this year's Earth Hour and beyond!

Why Machines That Bend Are Better

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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

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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

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Try these study tips when you are down to the wire!

Ultimate Super Bowl Snack Food Recipes • Tasty

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Make these delicious snacks for any watch party

Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!

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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?

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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!

Why Laminar Flow is AWESOME

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What is Laminar Flow?

Grammar: Infinitives and Gerunds - Upper-Intermediate English with Neal #43

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English classes streamed live on YouTube by Canadian and American teachers. During the class you can chat directly with the teacher and other students.

Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.

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Nujeen wasn't supposed to make it out of Syria, but that's not stopping her dreams.

Ant On A Rubber Rope Paradox

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Paradoxes are cool!

Teaching Housing and New Desks for Nalube Primary School

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The Peace Corps is a service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation. You can help by donating $5 or more to this campaign. Smrt English Ltd will match all donations. Click on the link for more details.

The myth of Sisyphus - Alex Gendler

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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

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Are Republicans and Democrats different because of biology?

Every Kid Needs A Champion

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Great Ted Talk for any teacher. Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like. A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

Teacher Well-Being and Stress Management

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Teaching can be stressful and teacher burn out rates are higher than ever. This article from Cambridge offers some reasons for teacher stress as well as some helpful coping strategies.