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Until a few months ago, I didn’t understand hashtags, thought tweeting was for Millennials, and called participants Twits. Probably not my most professional attitude, but sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know. My husband, @WriterinBuffalo, had just become the Marketing Director @LippesMathias, and he mentioned that it might help my blogging career. (Do you get it? I just did that Twitter “mention” where you name drop! I so get this whole Twitter thing!)
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - July 23, 2014
PBS NewsHour ExtraPresident Barack Obama sternly called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to compel Russian-backed separatists to allow international investigators full access to the crash site in Ukraine.
“We have to make sure the truth is out and accountability exists,” Obama said Monday.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - July 14, 2014
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Any confusion is not entirely unreasonable.
A newly discovered prehistoric bird was in fact only slightly smaller than a two-seater airplane. Pelagornis sandersi had a wingspan of between 20 and 24 feet, which makes it the largest flying bird yet discovered.
Pelagornis sandersi also had stumpy legs and a mouth filled with strange, bony spikes, which made it look like a dragon, according to Dan Ksepka, the paleontologist who pieced together its bones.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - Civil Rights Act Anniversary - June 27, 2014
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others look on.
by Jinnie Spiegler, Anti-Defamation League
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - June 17, 2014
by Richard Vaughan
Getting a good night’s sleep is not only helpful to one’s beauty regime, but it is also key to improving learning and memory, according to academics.
A team of researchers in China and the US have observed new connections between brain cells developing during sleep. The scientists from New York University School of Medicine and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School used advanced microscopy to see how these synapses were formed.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - June 3, 2014
by Adi Bloom
Hurricane Victor is likely to rampage across the land, spreading devastation in its wake. Hurricane Victoria, by contrast, will probably just ineffectually bat at obstacles in its path.
Such sexist assumptions mean that people are less likely to take hurricanes with female names as seriously than those with male names, according to new research. As a result, hurricanes called Cindy and Dolly often cause more deaths than those named Andrew or Charlie.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - May 27, 2014
What weighs as much as 14 African elephants and is longer than four buses placed end-to-end? The largest creature ever to have walked the Earth, according to scientists who have been examining newly discovered dinosaur remains in Argentina.
A farm worker stumbled across the gigantic fossilized bones near La Flecha in the Patagonian desert. Now paleontologists have announced their conclusions.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - May 13, 2014
What outfit will the first human being to set foot on another planet be wearing?
The world was given some clues last week as U.S. space agency, NASA, released pictures of its latest prototype spacesuit.
The “Z-2” includes features such as electroluminescent wiring – never used in a spacesuit before – and light-emitting patches to help astronauts identify each other on spacewalks.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - April 25, 2014
by Jinnie Spiegler, Anti-Defamation League
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (the
DREAM Act) was a bill in Congress that would have granted legal status
to certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United
States as children and went to school here. Although several versions
of the bill have been introduced in Congress since 2001, it has never
passed.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - April 8, 2014
By Stephen Exley
From a distance, Emma Watson appears to embody perfectly the
glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. The reality, however, is very different,
the actress has admitted.
After being cast as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone as a precocious nine-year-old, Watson went on to
find global fame by starring in all eight of the hit films in the
series.