Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - December 3, 2013
Adi Bloom
You could blame it on the sunshine. You could blame it on the
moonlight. Either way, enough energy could be generated to light up the
world’s dance floors, according to a Japanese company.
Tokyo-based Shimizu is planning to set up a giant belt of solar
panels around the moon’s equator, creating what it claims will be a
“virtually inexhaustible, non-polluting source of energy”.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - November 22, 2013
Henry Hepburn
Everyone who was alive at the time knows exactly what they were
doing when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, so it’s
often said. And the passing of five decades has scarcely diminished the
intrigue around his assassination and the life that preceded it.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - November 20, 2013
Julia Belgutay
“Selfie” has been declared the word of the year by Oxford
Dictionaries after the frequency of its use increased by a reported
17,000 percent over the past 12 months.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - November 18, 2013
With ferocious winds of up to 200mph and hailstones the size of
tennis balls, the tornadoes that swept across the American Midwest
sound
like something out of a Hollywood thriller.
But for the 53 million people in 10 states who were at risk, and the
tens of thousands left without power, the terrifying storms wreaking
havoc across the US are all too real.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - November 11, 2013
Stephen Exley
It has been described as “complete devastation” and “horrific.” But
it is hard to find the words to do justice to the carnage left behind
by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
As many as 10,000 people are estimated to have been killed by the
storm, which reached the country’s eastern provinces of Leyte and Samar
on Friday, before sweeping across six more islands.
Marvel Introduces Muslim-American Superhero
Darren Evans
Marvel Entertainment is introducing one of the first ever female Muslim comic book superheroes in an effort to explore what it means to be a Muslim growing up in modern America.The character Ms. Marvel, who had her debut in the late 1960s, is being brought back as Kamala Khan, the 16-year-old daughter of Pakistani immigrants living in Jersey City.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - November 5, 2013
William Stewart
A hoard of about 1,500 valuable works of art, looted by the Nazis
more than 70 years ago, has been found in an apartment in the German
city of Munich.
The collection includes paintings by artists including Henri
Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. German officials said
that the collection could be worth as much as 1.35 billion dollars.
Mrs. Obama and Sesame Street Partner to Curb Cookie Monsters
Henry Hepburn
It’s an age-old problem: how to get children to eat their vegetables.
Now, First Lady Michelle Obama has come up with a plan. Elmo, Big
Bird and their Sesame Street pals, she announced this week,
are going to market fruits and vegetables to kids.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - October 11, 2013
Henry Hepburn
Weight gain happens instantaneously in the movies. Orson Welles
transformed from a svelte young newspaper editor to a bloated recluse
in Citizen Kane. Robert De Niro metamorphosed from a wiry
world champion boxer to a jowly mess in Raging Bull.
But the punishing regimes stars go through to achieve these results
are easily ignored as audiences get pulled into the stories. Actors
pile on the pounds in a matter of months – and in doing so may subject
their body to lasting damage.
Today's News, Tomorrow's Lesson - October 9, 2013
One year ago this week, Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old schoolgirl
and activist for girls’ education and women’s rights, was traveling
home from her school in Swat Valley, Pakistan, when two masked men
stopped her school van, asked for her by name and then shot her in the
head.
She survived the assassination attempt and her and her family moved
to the UK, where she still lives.
The Taliban, an extremist group, claimed responsibility for the
attack, which was condemned by global political leaders and human
rights activists.