Jacques Cousteau Biography: His Childhood, Navy Years and Early Adventures
He has been called a man-fish. Pioneer in oceanic adventure, Jacques Cousteau was an inventor, a filmmaker, a traveler and a lover of the deep dark …
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What if There Were No More Vultures? The Importance of These Maligned Birds
They’re called ugly buzzards, scavengers, the undertakers of road kill: they are vultures. But vultures are not buzzards and they aren’t like hawks …
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History and Biography of Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin
With his right creative brain, Borodin played instruments and wrote music; with his left, he jumped into science and languages: Russian, English, …
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Captive Killer Whales: Should Marine Mammals be Trained to Perform?
Are whales amazing just because of their awesome size? A blue whale’s heart weighs about 1300 pounds (590 kg) with a main blood vessel so big that a …
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It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: Your Voice Can Change Your Own Mood
The tone of your voice is an invitation to others to enter into a particular state with you, which happens on a level beneath consciousness. Your own …
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All about Cicadas: What They Are, What They're Not and What Was Grown on Them
Cicadas get a bad rap. Every 13 to 17-years they are blamed for something horrendous and most people don’t know any better. Cicadas are harmless and …
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Fox Hunting: The History, Tradition and Controversy of this Longstanding Sport
He has red-brown fur, a bushy tail, pointy ears, black boots, long thin nose and is bigger than a cat. There are just as many in the city as in the …
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Geckos and Their Sticky Secret Weapons
Human rock climbers use anchors, wedge-chockstones, gloves and ropes. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Spiderman gains the speed and …
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Identifying Earthquakes: How an Ancient Inventor Detected Disasters
Thousands of years ago one knew what caused earthquakes. An ingenious inventor named Zhang Heng discovered an answer around 132.
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Music Education Lessons: How Do Melody and Pitch Relate to Hearing?
What contributes to tone, melody and pitch and how come some people sing beautifully, hear and return music, and others seem tone deaf?
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