Unique New Year Traditions Around the World

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The New Year marks a time when a new calendar year begins, bidding goodbye to the old one. The festivities usually begin on the evening of December 31st for most countries, which is the last day of the Gregorian calendar, also known as New Year’s Eve. However, as we will see, different countries and cultures […]

Let’s Build a Computer #2 (Half-Adders)

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In the last lesson we learned about binary numbers, which are the way computers understand numbers. The next thing we will now study is how we can build simple hardware to add numbers. Once we can add numbers, we can do any math operation, like subtraction, multiplication and division that will be covered later. Being […]

The Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl is known now as a drought and a long period of sandstorms that targeted mainly Texas, Oklahoma, and surrounding prairie states. Pre-Dust Bowl, farms were spreading and multiplying like rabbits.  The long, sturdy grass roots that anchored much soil in place was replaced by shallow and pliable wheat roots. This was during the […]

Traditional Christmas Foods From Around the World

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Christmas is truly upon us now! I’m quite sure you’re all looking forward to gathering around the Christmas tree, spending time with families, reconnecting with friends, exchanging gifts, and unwrapping presents. And let’s not forget one of the things we’re also looking forward to the most—that is indulging in the delectable Christmas feast served at […]

Whiff of the World: Statue of Liberty

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The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France on October 18, 1886. It was designed by a French sculptor named Frederic Bartholdi. The statue depicts Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. She holds a tabula ansata in her left hand which has Roman numerals inscribed in it. JULY IV MDCCLXXVI: July 4, 1776. Weight […]

Remembering Stormfur – Warrior Cats

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Let’s remember Stonefur’s Last Battle (Warrior Cats) Take a moment to honor Stonefur. He protected Featherpaw and Stormpaw (Feathertail and Stormfur) even at the cost of his own life. I still hate Tigerstar – He was so cruel and diminished every cat in his path. Poor ShadowcClan also – They couldn’t take it any more…they […]

Minecraft Sometimes Does Not Make Sense

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Sometimes Minecraft does not make sense. Let’s get straight to the point. A stone pick can break stone. An iron pick can break iron ore. A diamond pick can break diamond ore. A netherite pick can break netherite. But a gold pick can’t break gold. Also, do you know how a arrow usually just bounces […]

Racism (Skin Color)

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Racist people are not the best people in the world (no offense). Racism runs through generations by the parents telling their children bad things about people that are not like them. In fact, we are all different from each other, but we are all great, even people that have conditions (Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, social problems, and more), and […]

Hominid Development (Part 2)

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Modern humans developed over a period of millions of years.  Here is a summary of what we know based on fossil records. Australopithecus: The remains of Australopithecus were mostly found in “East Africa”. The Australopithecus  brain was roughly 35% of the size of the modern human brain. The Australopithecus female stood between 1.2m and 1.4 […]