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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

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!

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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?

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!

Why Laminar Flow is AWESOME

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What is Laminar Flow?

Ant On A Rubber Rope Paradox

Adults Education
Paradoxes are cool!

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

The colleges where the American dream is still alive

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These schools are much better than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton at making poor kids rich.

These College Students Built a Hyperloop Pod... Here's What Happened

Adults Education
College can be stressful with all the classes, exams and social events to balance. Now, imagine doing all that while building a Hyperloop pod that will be judged by Elon Musk... no pressure. A scrappy group of students from Wisconsin boldly took on that challenge, and they learned that no matter how many all-nighters you pull, there's always more work to be done.

Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?

Adults Education
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it's called Politeness.