Electron microscope view of platinum nanowires with beads (left) and without beads (right). Credit: University of Rochester. Click to enlarge. Researchers at the University of Rochester (New York) have developed an electrospinning method to produce the longest platinum nanowires with minimal bead fo...

I finally got around to watching 10 Things I Hate About You the other night. The movie apparently came out when I was a junior in high school – prime target audience age for that teen cult classic. But despite being repeatedly being told over the years that I channel the female protagonist – I h...

I heard this homeschooling tip before I saw it play out in my own experience. I have since found this to be true several times. I’m having one of those moments right now. The tip is: Use your homeschooling curriculum, don’t let it use you. Otherwise stated, it is:Homeschooling curriculum is a to...

In this activity, students do a couple of hard listenings to get the main traits (some of which will be new vocab words) of each Hogwart's House. Then they compose interview questions and finally interview one or more classmates in......

There was an interesting article in today's New York Times Business section entitled " Well-Orchestrated Accidents ," as told to Patricia R. Olson.  It caught my eye because of the word "accident." That word, being in the business section, seemed a touch out of sy...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

Three Orthodox rabbis Hershel Billet, Kalman Topp, Aaron Glatt)  sent out this letter: Dear Friends As you well know, we are in the midst of a financial crisis unprecedented during our lifetimes. As a community we must take stock of the circumstances and react to the new realities in a responsi...

cleantech, energy, wind Luke Timmerman wrote: British Columbia is bigger in land area than Washington, Oregon, and California combined, but has about one-tenth the total population. Yet pound-for-pound, our neighbor to the north appears to have its share of entrepreneurs thinking hard about energy a...