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Is conflict good or bad or something else?

How might my approach to conflict help me find a resolution?

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What is the difference between knowing someone and knowing who they are?

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How do I tell that story?

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Nuclear Engineer

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Mareena Robinson Snowden made headlines in 2017 when she became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, she's worked to pave a pathway for more women and minorities to follow in her footsteps.

"I think it's tremendously important to have this diversity of voices, not just from a cultural perspective or from a gender perspective, but just lived experience," Snowden told Know Your Value. "...There is blood and treasure on the line with respect with the decisions that [nuclear engineers] make, and we're actually sending people out to fight wars if things go wrong."

Snowden, 32, lives in Washington, D.C. and works as a senior engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in neighboring Maryland. Just eight months into the job, and now with a 7-month-old daughter, she's settling into the first workplace she can call home after two year-long fellowships at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and National Nuclear Security Administration. Prior to that, she spent 11 years in school: five as a physics major at Florida A&M University, then six years in grad school at MIT, where she wrote her dissertation on the development of radiation detectors for future nuclear arms control treaties.

"I spend a lot of time thinking about nuclear weapons policy issues and technology," Snowden said. "[And now] I'm broadening my umbrella [to] security in general [and] military force posture issues, [like], how should the military respond to certain types of challenges."

Women and girls are chronically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields of work and study. Looking back on her own journey, Snowden is clear-eyed about how they get left behind.

"In the gym, we're all very comfortable with the idea of struggle and progress in a physical sense: lifting weights, that kind of thing, like what LeBron James or Serena Williams have to do every day on the court," Snowden said. "But then when we start talking about the mind, building the muscle of the mind, we forget the critical role that struggle plays. We frame it in the wrong way, and we say that struggle is a character flaw as opposed to the natural process of learning."

Snowden, who grew up in Miami, actually began to struggle academically around third grade when math lessons started getting more complex. Time tables had been easy for her to memorize, but long division made her nervous. "I didn't really understand how learning worked," Snowden said. "I often say, 'We don't teach kids how to learn before we teach them the actual material.' And if you miss that part of the lesson, you can go through life as I did, really having an adversarial relationship with learning."

At the same time, Snowden said young women come up against a lot of pressures young men don't face during their crucial pre-teen years, when they're beginning to see their potential for careers in math and science.

"You're starting to come into your young womanhood and all of these narratives around femininity and what it means to be a woman are all starting to land on you and... they don't always coincide with being technically excellent, being a nerd, or being interested in the stars and things like that," Snowden said.

"So you feel the pressures of trying to be liked and trying to be part of a community [versus] what your natural inclinations are, which might be toward science or math. And that tension can be really difficult for some women ... The desire to be part of a community wins out over what may be their natural aptitude for these types of careers."
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Snowden said major gains have been made toward getting a more diverse group of students into places like MIT, including a focus on educational investments and mentorship on the front end of the pipeline. But she thinks a crucial aspect needs more attention.

"Once they're there, what culture are they encountering? Is it one that's there to help them succeed and to foster excellence, or is it one where they feel undervalued and constantly having to prove themselves and [are] stereotyped?" Snowden asked. "It's that second piece of the conversation where organizations have to be introspective and they have to say, 'OK, what are we doing to negatively contribute to this outcome? And that's a hard conversation because the first part of the conversation, where you're focused externally, it's not about you."

Snowden credited the foundation she received at Florida A&M University as what eventually led her to MIT. On a college visit to Florida A&M, her dad suggested they stop by the physics department and he introduced her to the department head. That person took an interest in her and together, they toured labs, met the graduate students, went out to eat and swung by the scholarship office.

"Dad said the department head told him, 'We want you, we believe in you, we feel like you can do this.' And I'm thinking, you don't really know anything about me," Snowden remembered. "Really it was the belief that Florida A&M professors have that we will do our part to invest in you, all you have to do [is] just come with the enthusiasm and the willingness to work hard and we will help you bridge whatever gaps you have."

Studying at FAMU, and at historically black colleges and universities more broadly, Snowden said, is invaluable because black students' heritage and identity is not only affirmed, but woven into the fabric of the university.

"[There's] something powerful as a young black woman to come into an institution and to have so many tangible peer role models," Snowden remembered. "You're a high school student and you see these senior women and they're so stylish and so poised... just like Michelle Obamas every day in the cafeteria that you're looking at."
RELATED: 5 ways to close the gender gap for women in STEM
"The way that we feel about her is the way that I felt about the women in my school, the women that were only four years older than me," Snowden said. "They were such a model for what it meant to be a powerful self-possessed black woman."

Transitioning to MIT, despite having had two internships there before she formally started her graduate work, was "a culture shock." One interaction that particularly stung came when she was a newly admitted graduate student during "visit weekend" at MIT, when students meet with potential advisers.

"I came and I was very excited, and trying to do my best meeting with professors and setting up appointments and everything, and one of the professors I met with straight-up told me during the meeting that my undergraduate institution didn't prepare me to be there and I should expect to struggle," Snowden remembered." And he didn't know anything about my undergraduate institution other than it was an HBCU [historically black colleges and universities]."

Snowden took that as a direct challenge and let his words fuel her drive. On her graduation day six years later, that same professor - almost certainly having forgotten about their conversation and oblivious to its effect - was by chance the one selected to put the hood over graduates' necks as they received their degrees.

"I remember walking up to him on the stage and was just like, "Good morning, Dr. So-and-So!" Snowden recalled, laughing. "I was just very confident and I bent down and he put the hood around my neck and he shook my hand and he looked me in the eye and it was a very gratifying moment for me."

Snowden noted that there were far more people at MIT supporting her success as a student than were trying to block her. But figuring out how to navigate around roadblocks and persist in spite of them became a life lesson.

"There's a tax, always thinking about how you're different," Snowden said. "It's something I'm currently working on, like not always focusing on the fact that I'm the only woman or the only black person in the room, because that's not the root of my value. My value is from so many different places."

She knows firsthand how this "tax" affects women and minorities every day.

"Let's say for example you're giving a presentation," Snowden said. "As a black woman, and a lot of women face this, you're not only thinking about the substance of your presentation, but you're thinking about the inflection of your voice, you're thinking about, do you wear lipstick or not, you're thinking about what you wear, do you wear pants or a skirt. All these things have been put on you as signals of your credibility and signals that you're serious. And your counterparts are not doing those calculations. And that's taking away from the actual content of your work, for you to be thinking about that."

"It's a criticism of the environment, not of the woman, that we have to think like this," she said. "I think there's just another layer to it for black women... that intersectionality, that not-being-able-to-put-your-finger-on-it: Is this misogyny I'm dealing with, is this racism, is this a combination of the two? What's actually happening? It's hard to make sense of it. So my reaction has been to stop trying to make sense of it," Snowden said. "I'm here to do my work. I'm not here to understand your bias. That's been my approach."

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How Mareena Robinson Snowden is paving the way for women in STEM

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Flipgrid is a fantastic tool for gathering feedback from students in the form of short videos. In this post you'll learn everything you need to know to use Flipgrid in your classroom. On Flipgrid you can post a prompt for your students and they reply with short videos that can be as short as fifteen seconds or as long as five minutes.

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Minecraft Global Monthly Student Challenge: TIME MACHINE (March 2019)

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Would you rather questions are a great way to get a conversation started in a fun and interesting way. And it's easy to get into some amazing conversations by just asking "why" after a would you rather question. You'll get some very interesting answers and probably learn a lot more about the person you are talking to.

If you've got a group, you can take turns choosing a would you rather question and asking each member of the group. If it's just two of you, you both can take turns asking would you rather questions to each other. Or you can just run down the list together answering them all together.
You can also try some of our other conversation game pages like never have I ever questions, truth or dare questions, 21 questions game, this or that questions, most likely to questions, or even our trivia questions.
We have over 300 would you rather questions in our list, use them however you want and have fun with them! If you would like an image or a PDF of just the click the link in the table of contents. Or if you'd like to play games in a fun chat room / meeting setting the folks over at Brightful turned my questions into games.

Best would you rather questions

These are, in my humble opinion, some of the best would you rather questions we have to offer. I hope you enjoy them!

Which would be less likely to wipe us off the face of the planet?

2. Would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?

If you strongly swing introvert or extrovert, this might be pretty easy for you.

3. Would you rather have a golden voice or a silver tongue?

To be honest, I just put this one in because I thought it has a nice ring to it. Nothing like some good idioms.

4. Would you rather be covered in fur or covered in scales?

Built in blanket or +2 armor, which one will you choose?

5. Would you rather be in jail for a year or lose a year off your life?

Is a bad year worth living or is better to give up a year of your life?

6. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or always be 20 minutes early?

Feel rushed or feel bored. Make others wait or have to wait. Have a hard time getting a job or be constantly waiting around looking at your phone. Choose wisely.

7. Would you rather have one real get out of jail free card or a key that opens any door?

One free crime of your choice or a life of limitless theft and/or espionage. Get in touch with your inner criminal.

8. Would you rather know the history of every object you touched or be able to talk to animals?

Basically, the best veterinarian/zoologist on the planet or the most incredible archaeologist ever.

9. Would you rather be married to a 10 with a bad personality or a 6 with an amazing personality?

This answer probably changes quite a bit depending on if you are or have ever been married.

10. Would you rather be able to talk to land animals, animals that fly, or animals that live under the water?

The most important question is, what would the conversations be like?

11. Would you rather have all traffic lights you approach be green or never have to stand in line again?

Look at you, big shot, the World making way for you!

12. Would you rather spend the rest of your life with a sailboat as your home or an RV as your home?

The waves, the sun, the smell of salty air. The open road before you, also the sun, the smell of the pines. Either one sounds pretty good about right now.

13. Would you rather give up all drinks except for water or give up eating anything that was cooked in an oven?

Food choice, or beverage choice, tough pick.

14. Would you rather be able to see 10 minutes into your own future or 10 minutes into the future of anyone but yourself?

Both would be pretty cool. Either one would make a great superpower.

15. Would you rather have an easy job working for someone else or work for yourself but work incredibly hard?

This is a great question to help you decide how well you would do as an entrepreneur.

16. Would you rather be the first person to explore a planet or be the inventor of a drug that cures a deadly disease?

Explorer or humanitarian, you'll go down in history books either way, but which way do you want to be remembered?

17. Would you rather go back to age 5 with everything you know now or know now everything your future self will learn?

Either way, you will definitely have a leg up. You would be the smartest 5-year-old on the playground but man, it would be rough going through puberty again.

18. Would you rather be able to control animals (but not humans) with your mind or control electronics with your mind?

You feeling that druid vibe or more of a cyberpunk vibe?

19. Would you rather have unlimited international first-class tickets or never have to pay for food at restaurants?

Choosing between food and travel. I don't know about you, but it's probably the hardest choice on this list for me.

20. Would you rather see what was behind every closed door or be able to guess the combination of every safe on the first try?

So, will you be a super thief or a super snoop? Will you use your powers for good or evil?

21. Would you rather be an average person in the present or a king of a large country 2500 years ago?

Being king pro: You get to tell everyone what to do. Living in the past con: Dentistry. Or the lack thereof.

22. Would you rather be able to dodge anything no matter how fast it's moving or be able to ask any three questions and have them answered accurately?

How about it, you Neo or a second-rate Aladdin? Information is power, but dodging bullets is pretty cool. A lot of cardio though.

23. Would you rather be forced to dance every time you heard music or be forced to sing along to any song you heard?

Sure, people will look at you funny, but either one you choose, own it.

24. Would you rather have all your clothes fit perfectly or have the most comfortable pillow, blankets, and sheets in existence?

You want to be comfy in the streets or comfy in the sheets?

25. Would you rather 5% of the population have telepathy, or 5% of the population have telekinesis? You are not part of the 5% that has telepathy or telekinesis.

Well not everyone gets lucky. But you know if everyone is a superhero then no one is.

26. Would you rather be an unimportant character in the last movie you saw or an unimportant character in the last book you read?

Just remember that all the supporting characters in your life are the main character in their own. Not sure why you need to remember it, but it sounds pseudo-profound right?

27. Would you rather move to a new city or town every week or never be able to leave the city or town you were born in?

"Lord, I was born a rambling man..." Or do you prefer... "Our house, in the middle our street..."

28. Would you rather be completely insane and know that you are insane or completely insane and believe you are sane?

Sure, being plain old sane might be the preferred choice, but that's not an option!

29. Would you rather travel the world for a year on a shoestring budget or stay in only one country for a year but live in luxury?

Do you prefer the high life or the wandering life? Both have their benefits. But more than likely you instantly know which is right for you.

30. Would you rather suddenly be elected a senator or suddenly become a CEO of a major company? (You won't have any more knowledge about how to do either job than you do right now.)

Is it just me or would this make a good comedy movie/TV show?

31. Would you rather live in virtual reality where you are all powerful or live in the real world and be able to go anywhere but not be able to interact with anyone or anything?

A god in the machine or a ghost in the real world.

32. Would you rather have whatever you are thinking to appear above your head for everyone to see or have absolutely everything you do live streamed for anyone to see?

Privacy for your thoughts, or privacy for you, which do you value more?

34. Would you rather humans discover a signal from intelligent life from another planet or figure out how to extend human life for another 100 years?

Both would change the world, for better or for worse, forever. But which choice would do the most good, or at least be the most fun.

35. Would you rather be only able to watch the few movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95-100% or only be able to watch the majority of movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94% and lower?

Quality is great, but does it outweigh quantity? I leave that up to you to decide.

36. Would you rather wake up as a new random person every year and have full control of them for the whole year or once a week spend a day inside a stranger without having any control of them?

No matter which you choose that would be one crazy life to live.

37. Would you rather know how above or below average you are at everything or know how above or below average people are at one skill/talent just by looking at them?

It's amazing how many uses these two would have once you start thinking about them and how they would play out in real life.

38. Would you rather live until you are 200 but look like you are 200 the whole time even though you are healthy or look like you are 25 all the way until you die at age 65?

You can't judge a book by its cover. But people still do.

39. Would you rather be able to slow down time by 10% or jump three times as high as you can now?

There is a reason that super power questions are so popular they are almost a cliché. I mean we all want to be powerful and special.

40. Would you rather be born again in the same country or a different one of your choosing?

A lot easier to answer if you've lived or traveled other countries but even if you haven't, you've surely heard a lot about at least a few countries.

41. Would you rather be forced to go 10 mph under the speed limit or 10 mph over the speed limit? You can still get speeding tickets.

Safer but slower and more annoying or faster but more likely to get a ticket?

42. Would you rather take an all expenses paid dream vacation every year for a month or have the job of your dreams?

The dream job also gives you a month paid vacation, but you need to pay for the vacation.

43. Would you rather give up using a phone or tablet forever or give up having any salt in food?

If you've ever given up using a phone or been on a low/no salt diet you know how painful each of these are.

44. Would you rather get a post card every day from a stranger in a different country or a 10 minute call with anyone in the world you choose once a year?

For the post cards, you wouldn't be obligated to respond unless you wanted to. So it's either voices from around the world, 365 a year or a high powered short conversation once a year.

45. Would you rather have a successful podcast or a successful YouTube channel?

This one might depend on age, I have a feeling older folks might prefer podcasts and younger might prefer YouTube, but I could be wrong.

46. Would you rather watch a movie with no snacks or drink or have whatever you want but the movie volume is always just a little to quiet or a little too loud?

Some people can take or leave the snacks, and for some people they are just as crucial as the movie.

47. Would you rather always live 10 miles from where you were born or never be able to settle down in one place for more than a year?

Do you have that wanderlust, or just want to settle in? Neither one is better than the other, they're just different.

48. Would you rather work hard for a boss that has high expectations but values you as a person and employee or work much less for a boss that couldn't care less?

Job satisfaction versus not working as much at your job. Probably a real decision you'll have to make or have already made.

49. Would you rather be the best in the world at a skill, task, or job of your choice but be socially unbearable or be how you are now but everyone you meet enjoys your company and loves having you around (even more than they already do)?

I feel like with this question you could also branch out into one letting you enjoy life now but the other would let you leave you mark on history. Life or legacy.

50. Would you rather never be able to drink water again or only be able to drink water?

This question doesn't really work unless the person you are asking really likes beverages other than water, booze or coffee or soda.

51. Would you rather be a successful artist or a successful business owner?

Sure, you'll probably make more money as a business owner, but you'd probably be more famous as an artist. Either one could be doing what you love, it just depends on what you love doing.

52. Would you rather reroll your stats (intelligence, strength, constitution, etc) knowing that they could come out much worse or much better or just stay the same as you are now?

Sure, you are pretty awesome now, but you could be way more awesome.... or way worse.

Related: Would you rather questions for kids / Clean would you rather questions / Would you rather questions for your boyfriend or girlfriend

Funny would you rather questions

These would you rather questions will hopefully be good for a laugh, or at least the start of a funny conversation.

53. Would you rather be a reverse centaur or a reverse mermaid/merman?

I think the picture is definitely worth a thousand of my words.

54. Would you rather your only mode of transportation be a donkey or a giraffe?

Very cool and impractical or kind of lame but a lot more practical.

55. Would you rather only be to use a fork (no spoon) or only be able to use a spoon (no fork)?

Sure, you like soup, but do you like it enough to give up using a fork?

56. Would you rather every shirt you ever wear be kind of itchy or only be able to use 1 ply toilet paper?

Let's be honest, both are a fate worse than death.

57. Would you rather have edible spaghetti hair that regrows every night or sweat (not sweet) maple syrup?

So, um yeah, sometimes you get so tired, and you just type stuff. And sometimes you keep it. And this I'm keeping.

58. Would you rather have to read aloud every word you read or sing everything you say out loud?

You are going to get the side eye from a lot of folks either way!

59. Would you rather wear a wedding dress/tuxedo every single day or wear a bathing suit every single day?

Either way, you are going to need to find a job suited to your strict attire requirements. Bathing suit, lifeguard. Tux, probably lots of options. Wedding dress... hmm that one might be a little more difficult.

60. Would you rather be unable to move your body every time it rains or not be able to stop moving while the sun is out?

Which do you value more, your peaceful rest time or getting stuff done?

61. Would you rather have all dogs try to attack you when they see you or all birds try to attack you when they see you?

Birds or Cujo, either way, better put on your chainmail before heading out the door!

62. Would you rather be compelled to high five everyone you meet or be compelled to give wedgies to anyone in a green shirt?

Oh man, either way, you might take a beating walking around. Just hope you don't live in a city!

63. Would you rather have skin that changes color based on your emotions or tattoos appear all over your body depicting what you did yesterday?

Whew, the tattoos would be super embarrassing, but then again it would be rough having everyone know how you feel all the time.

64. Would you rather randomly time travel +/- 20 years every time you fart or teleport to a different place on earth (on land, not water) every time you sneeze?

This is another that would make a great TV series. Especially if they combined them. I only hope they make it a dark comedy.

65. Would you rather there be a perpetual water balloon war going on in your city/town or a perpetual food fight?

Yeah, let's just pretend that whatever is being thrown, once it hits the ground, it disappears. Nobody wants tons of popped balloon fragments or rotting food around.

66. Would you rather have to fart loudly every time you have a serious conversation or have to burp after every kiss?

This is like the worst set of superpowers ever. Hope you can find an SO who is super understanding.

67. Would you rather become twice as strong when both of your fingers are stuck in your ears or crawl twice as fast as you can run?

One incredibly goofy, one incredibly creepy. Which will you choose?!

68. Would you rather have everything you draw become real but be permanently terrible at drawing or be able to fly but only as fast as you can walk?

The most underwhelming superpowers. I would totally watch a show or movie about superheroes with really under powered powers.

69. Would you rather thirty butterflies instantly appear from nowhere every time you sneeze or one very angry squirrel appear from nowhere every time you cough?

Cold and flu season is going to be really weird for you.

70. Would you rather vomit uncontrollably for one minute every time you hear the happy birthday song or get a headache that lasts for the rest of the day every time you see a bird (including in pictures or a video)?

Yeah, this is another one I don't really know what to say. Nothing catchy here just a very bizarre choice.

71. Would you rather eat a sandwich made from 4 ingredients in your fridge chosen at random or eat a sandwich made by a group of your friends from 4 ingredients in your fridge?

Knowing my friends, definitely the ingredients chosen at random. I hope you have nicer friends than I do...

72. Would you rather everyone be required to wear identical silver jumpsuits or any time two people meet and are wearing an identical article of clothing they must fight to the death?

The future is a fashion dystopia! There is no fashion, or everyone must be extremely unique in their fashion or face possible death.

73. Would you rather be inside a portable toilet when it's pushed over or die three weeks earlier than you normally would have?

How much is three weeks worth? Is it worth the memory? Sure, it would make a great story, but the smell, oh the smell.

74. Would you rather trees scream occasionally for no reason or spiders be big enough and smart enough to open doors?

Not going to lie, I pulled the trees screaming from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. But the spiders being able to open doors, that's just from my nightmares.

75. Would you rather every third thought you have be out loud or never be alone no matter what you are doing?

Who needs privacy after all? You get decide if you want your thoughts to be private or you get some alone time but people think you are crazy every time you are around them.

76. Would you rather everyone listen to music and podcasts without headphones or everyone be unreasonably proud of their flatulence and body odor?

Another silly one, but one that probably touches some pet peeves. But really, I just wish people would use headphones. If you listen to music without headphones, just know that everyone hates you and wishes you were never born. Can you tell which one bothers me the most?

77. Would you rather have a penny farthing bicycle or a unicycle as your only form of transport besides walking?

You are definitely going to garner some attention wherever you go, either way road trips are going to be a bit rough.

78. Would you rather have the ability to mute people at will or pause people for five seconds at a time, but only once an hour?

Bizarre super powers, maybe not super powers. More like mediocre powers, but powers none the less!

79. Would you rather be able to control lights with your mind or actually be able to throw your voice?

Either one could lead to some very fun pranks and shenanigans, limited only by your creativity.

80. Would you rather only be able to wear clown shoes or not be able to wear any shoes?

This one is a fun one because the more you think into each one the more you realize how limiting each would be.

81. Would you rather be the head of a company or the head of a cult?

Sure, being the head of a company would make you more money but being the head of a cult would probably lead to a lot better stories.

82. Would you rather jump into a gigantic snow cone with just your bathing suit in winter or roll down a relatively large hill wearing a helmet, 5 jackets, and 10 pairs of pants in summer?

You feeling hot, hot, hot. Or are you as cold as ice?

83. Would you rather wear only uncomfortable shoes whenever you go outside or comfy shoes always (even to bed)?

For the wearing shoes always, think the spray on shoes from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I think the uncomfortable shoes is self-explanatory, we've all been there.

84. Would you rather get a surprise wet willy from a random stranger every day or a surprise wedgie from a random stranger every day?

Both are horrible, even more so if done by a stranger, but which is worse?

85. Would you rather whatever house you live in to have one strong smell of your choosing for the rest of your life or wake up to your house smell to change randomly every day?

And if you did choose the one strong smell one, which smell would it be?

Good would you rather questions

Just some general would you rather questions that are fun to answer. No theme or anything, just enjoy!

86. Would you rather be a famous director or a famous actor?

The limelight or the credit, your choice.

87. Would you rather be a practicing doctor or a medical researcher?

Both help to make peoples' lives better. But both have some serious downsides that go along with them.

88. Would you rather live in a cave or live in a tree house?

Which do you cheer for in fantasy movies and books, dwarves or elves?

89. Would you rather be able to control fire or water?

How about it, you a Zuko or a Katara?

90. Would you rather live without the internet or live without AC and heating?

This question gets a lot harder to answer the hotter or colder it is where you live.

91. Would you rather be able to teleport anywhere or be able to read minds?

Either one would make for an amazing superpower.

And of course, Reddit counts as social media, even if you are just lurking.

93. Would you rather be beautiful/handsome but stupid or intelligent but ugly?

The old dilemma of beauty vs. intelligence, which is more important? Is ignorance truly bliss, or is that just cop out?

94. Would you rather be balding but fit or overweight with a full head of hair?

Sure, you can always lose weight, but how many people actually do lose weight. As for the other, a lot of work, but a lot of hair as well. How much do you love those locks Fabio?

95. Would you rather never be able to eat meat or never be able to eat vegetables?

Forced carnivore or vegetarian, I suppose for vegans and vegetarians this is an easy choice.

96. Would you rather have a completely automated home or a self-driving car?

It won't be long until everyone has both! Whether they like it or not. Just kidding! Or am I?

97. Would you rather be an amazing painter or a brilliant mathematician?

The arts or the sciences, which do you prefer?

98. Would you rather be famous but ridiculed or be just a normal person?

It ain't easy being famous, but it does have its perks! What am I talking about? I have no idea what it's like being famous.

99. Would you rather have a flying carpet or a car that can drive underwater?

Aladdin or James Bond, either way, you are about to get way more awesome. Until someone steals it.

100. Would you rather never be stuck in traffic again or never get another cold?

Both are incredibly annoying. Guess it depends on your commute and how often you get sick.

101. Would you rather have a bottomless box of Legos or a bottomless gas tank?

You'll be rich either way. Sure, gas would probably get you more money in the long run, but infinite Legos sounds like a lot of fun.

102. Would you rather be forced to eat only spicy food or only incredibly bland food?

You want that fire, or you want that ... um ... opposite of fire? Yeah, so you like spicy food or really hate spicy food?

103. Would you rather be a bowling champion or a curling champion?

I would love to see a mix of both sports. Sure, it would probably be messy, and there would be lots of injuries, but I reckon it would be pretty entertaining.

104. Would you rather be fantastic at riding horses or amazing at driving dirt bikes?

I mean let's face it, either one would be pretty awesome.

105. Would you rather never be able to wear pants or never be able to wear shorts?

This one depends a lot on where you live. While it might be a tough call for a lot of my readers, I think it will be much easier for those of you in colder climates.

106. Would you rather live the next 10 years of your life in China or Russia?

Both big, diverse, and interesting but very different in a lot of ways. So, which do you think would be a good fit for you?

107. Would you rather live on the beach or in a cabin in the woods?

Beach bum or ... woods bum? Is that a thing? That's probably not a thing. Woodsman/woodswoman, there we go.

108. Would you rather be lost in a bad part of town or lost in the forest?

You got those street smarts or those wilderness smarts? Or would you just be up the creek no matter which you picked?

109. Would you rather have a horrible short-term memory or a horrible long-term memory?

Or you could be like me and just have horrible short-term and long-term memory!

110. Would you rather be completely invisible for one day or be able to fly for one day?

The age-old question, flying or invisibility. Experience or utility, the choice is yours!

111. Would you rather never be able to use a touchscreen or never be able to use a keyboard and mouse?

Electronic interface devices. Makes for an exciting would you rather question right? Okay, well I thought it was good enough to leave in.

112. Would you rather have unlimited sushi for life or unlimited tacos for life? (both are amazingly delicious and can be any type of sushi/taco you want)

I love both so much, I don't know how I would decide.

113. Would you rather get one free round trip international plane ticket every year or be able to fly domestic anytime for free?

Travel, travel, travel, oh to be traveling again.

114. Would you rather be able to be free from junk mail or free from email spam for the rest of your life?

Now you can choose between old school spam and new spam. But the real question is, what will be the next spam? And as a side bonus for reading these things, here is a link to where you can opt out of some junk mail.

115. Would you rather give up bathing for a month or give up the internet for a month?

How much stink is the internet worth?

116. Would you rather give up watching TV/movies for a year or give up playing games for a year?

That includes phone games for those app gamers out there. Who knows, even with how much I love entertainment, it might be good to unplug from both for a year.

117. Would you rather never be able to drink sodas like coke again or only be able to drink sodas and nothing else?

This one totally depends on how much you love sodas vs. how much you love other drinks.

118. Would you rather have amazingly fast typing/texting speed or be able to read ridiculously fast?

Input. Output. What is more important to you?

119. Would you rather live under a sky with no stars at night or live under a sky with no clouds during the day?

As a side note, if you hate clouds, check out the southwest USA.

120. Would you rather have free Wi-Fi wherever you go or be able to drink unlimited free coffee at any coffee shop?

But I need both! Lots of coffee shops have free Wi-Fi, but as soon as you step out, it vanishes. Global connectivity or global caffeine. The choice is yours.

121. Would you rather take amazing selfies, but all of your other pictures are horrible or take breathtaking photographs of anything but yourself?

You going for the influencer life or that photographer life? Either way, keep hustling!

122. Would you rather never get a paper cut again or never get something stuck in your teeth again?

Not sure which I would pick, but either would be a blessing.

123. Would you rather never have another embarrassing fall in public or never feel the need to pass gas in public again?

Who knows, maybe you like passing gas in public, I don't know how nasty you are. This might be an easy question for those crop dusters out there.

124. Would you rather lose your best friend or all of your friends except for your best friend?

Guess it all depends how awesome your best friend is or if you prefer that friend buffet action.

125. Would you rather it never stops snowing (the snow never piles up) or never stops raining (the rain never causes floods)?

Sure, both will get annoying after a while, but which would be less annoying?

126. Would you rather never be able to leave your own country or never be able to fly in an airplane?

How much do you like riding on trains and boats?

127. Would you rather never have a toilet clog on you again or never have the power go out again?

The water always goes down, or the grid always stays up.

128. Would you rather earbuds and headphones never sit right on / in your ears or have all music either slightly too quiet or slightly too loud?

Can you tell that I get way too bothered by slight inconveniences? Maybe this list says more about me than it should.

129. Would you rather be the best in the world at climbing trees or the best in the world at jumping rope?

Both you could conceivably make a living with, and both are pretty good cardio.

130. Would you rather never run out of battery power for whatever phone and tablet you own or always have free Wi-Fi wherever you go?

No more carrying charging cords and a bandolier of spare batteries. Or all you can eat of that sweet, sweet, free Wi-Fi pie.

131. Would you rather never have to clean a bathroom again or never have to do dishes again?

In the battle of the chores which is more of a pain?

132. Would you rather eat an egg with a half-formed chicken inside or eat ten cooked grasshoppers?

Crunch, crunch, crunch, time to expand your palette my friend!

133. Would you rather only wear one color each day or have to wear seven colors each day?

You feeling that Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat vibe or are you more of a Man in Black?

134. Would you rather eat rice with every meal and never be able to eat bread or eat bread with every meal and never be able to eat rice?

What is your carb of choice? Big and squishy or small and squishy?

135. Would you rather travel the world for a year all expenses paid or have $40,000 to spend on whatever you want?

Experiences or things, which do you value more?

136. Would you rather be able to go to any theme park in the world for free for the rest of your life or eat for free at any drive-through restaurant for the rest of your life?

You would definitely get more use out of the drive through unless you live in a place like Orlando, Florida. But would that be a good thing? Can you eat healthy at drive-throughs?

137. Would you rather be the absolute best at something that no one takes seriously or be well above average but not anywhere near the best at something well respected?

How much do others' opinions of you matter?

138. Would you rather it be impossible for you to be woken up for 11 straight hours every day, but you wake up feeling amazing, or you can be woken up normally but never feel totally rested?

Basically, do you want to be a normal person over the age of 30 or not be able to be woken up for 11 hours each day. I seriously miss being totally rested.

139. Would you rather have everything in your house perfectly organized by a professional or have a professional event company throw the best party you've ever been to, in your honor?

I wanna rock! I wanna be organized! I think your friends might already know your answer to this one.

140. Would you rather have unlimited amounts of any material you want to build a house, but you have to build the house all by yourself or have a famed architect design and build you a modest house?

If you choose the first option, what materials would you want to build your house from? And if you chose the second option what kind of house do you think of when you hear a "modest" house?

141. Would you rather never sweat again but not be more prone to heat stroke or never feel cold again but cold still physically affects you (i.e., you can freeze to death)?

I guess what I'm asking is, do you prefer to be sweaty or cold?

142. Would you rather accept help or just take care of things on your own?

This one could be about how stubborn you are or perhaps how little you regard other peoples' abilities.

143. Would you rather live in a nice house in a boring town or a rough house in an exciting town?

All about that night life or all about that home life? Up to you.

144. Would you rather be fluent in legalese or fluent in French?

Learning a new language is always useful. But would it be better to understand contracts and terms of service or converse fluently in the City of Lights. Depends I guess on how you feel about France and the French.

145. Would you rather be able to speed read or speak at an incredible speed?

Lots of knowledge to be had with speed reading, but a lucrative career as a rapper or that person that reads the fine print at the end of commercials.

146. Would you rather remember everyone's name you've ever met or know how to mix every cocktail ever made?

Not really related, but both super useful skills especially for networking. That is assuming you hang out with people who drink or you want to be a bartender.

147. Would you rather be given a top tier gaming PC or a top tier Apple computer? Both are the same price.

I guess in the end this is more of a brand loyalty question, but could still be fun to answer.

148. Would you rather type faster or dance better?

You can decide how these scale, maybe fastest typist in the world vs the 10th best dancer or something along those lines.

149. Would you rather have infrared vision that you can turn on/off at will or 20x normal telescopic vision?

Binocular or night vision, both super useful and both could be used for good or ill, or just totally mundane things like not turning on the light when you get up in the middle of the night or reading far away signs.

150. Would you rather be a great success in your personal life or your professional life?

The age-old question of family or career. It's real hard to have both.

151. Would you rather sleep on the floor with a pillow and blanket or sleep on a bed without a pillow or blanket?

This is one of those questions, like the toilet paper top or bottom question, that people tend to really have a strong opinion one way or the other. Not quite sure why though.

152. Would you rather eat something savory or sweet?

This one isn't about right now. More of a in general question. Most people swing back and forth but tend to favor either sweet or savory more.

153. Would you rather read a hardback book or a paperback book?

Some people definitely have a strong preference, others not so much. You'll never know unless you ask.

154. Would you rather take a weeklong hiking / camping vacation or a weeklong cruise?

The great outdoors or the great buffet. Active or chill, what's your vacation vibe?

155. Would you rather owe someone a lot of money or owe them a big favor?

The Godfather dilemma, "Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day."

156. Would you rather hang out with your family or your friends?

This one is highly dependent on how good a person's family is and how good their family is. If it's about a tie, this might be tough one but otherwise you could probably give this one a pass.

157. Would you rather star in a movie or a TV series?

Not like one of those documentary movies, but one that is in a theatre. And the TV series is relatively popular and long running.

158. Would you rather have a new expensive pair of shoes or an expensive pair of sunglasses?

Who doesn't love to have nice things? But the question is, which nice things would you prefer?

159. Would you rather perform in a circus or act in plays?

Both aren't easy, but they take wildly different skill sets to do well. Are you destined for the stage or the ring?

160. Would you rather be lost in the woods of a mountain for a year or stranded on a tropical island for a year?

Sure, you're a survivor and you're not going to give up. But in which environment do you think you'd thrive?

161. Would you rather ask for help with a difficult task or figure out how to do it yourself?

I suppose YouTube kind of blurs the line between asking for help and figuring out how to do it yourself. But let's say for the sake of getting to the root of the question that there is no service / wifi at the place you need to do the task.

162. Would you rather be able to drink or eat as much as you want without weight or health consequences?

This kind of assumes that you can or do drink, if you are talking to someone who doesn't drink alcohol maybe give this one a pass.

163. Would you rather only need to sleep three hours a day without being tired / hurting your health or only need to eat once a week without being hungry / hurting your health?

As a foodie that doesn't get enough sleep, I know which one I would choose, but you might have a different thought. At least with the not needing to eat all the time it would be easy lose weight.

164. Would you rather be YouTube famous or TV famous?

These days it kind of seems like they are converging, maybe you might not see much of a difference in fame level between the two. But it definitely a different kind of famous and your audience is way different as well.

165. Would you rather have your whole house completely carpeted or completely tiled?

We are talking bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, garage, everything. Not the most exciting of questions, but yeah did you know back in the day some bathrooms were carpeted?

166. Would you rather be a drum prodigy or a bass guitar prodigy?

Yes, all stereotypes of drummers and bassists are welcome.

167. Would you rather have a huge event wedding or a small one and use the money you saved to go on an amazing honeymoon?

Go big or go on vacation. Both have their pros and cons.

Hard would you rather questions

I thought that these were some of the harder would you rather questions to answer. I'm not sure if you'll agree, but I bet you'll have a good time answering them.

168. Would you rather super sensitive taste or super sensitive hearing?

Both would probably get equally annoying after a while. Accidentally tasting a fart and hearing car alarms from a mile away while you try to sleep would get old really quick.

169. Would you rather have constantly dry eyes or a constant runny nose?

Ugh, both would be so bad. So annoying. It's like a nightmare, a very mild but constantly irritating one.

170. Would you rather never lose your phone again or never lose your keys again?

For someone who is always losing both, this question is a hard one for me.

171. Would you rather have out of control body hair or a strong, pungent body odor?

We are talking like Harry and the Hendersons level of body hair and as for the body odor, let's say like a really strong cheese smell.

172. Would you rather be unable to have kids or only be able to conceive quintuplets?

Whew, how much do you want kids? Zero or five definitely makes the choice a little trickier! Of course, if you never want kids, I guess this is a super easy one to answer.

173. Would you rather clean rest stop toilets or work in a slaughterhouse for a living?

Both hard jobs with their own set of difficulties, but which do you think you would be more suited to?

174. Would you rather lose all your money and valuables or all the pictures you have ever taken?

If you have an amazing memory, this one might be an easy one to answer. Otherwise, I guess it comes down to how sentimental you are.

175. Would you rather find your true love or a suitcase with five million dollars inside?

Money or love, love or money. How much do you love money?

176. Would you rather not be able to see any colors or have mild but constant tinnitus (ringing in the ears)?

Just depends on how much you love color or how much you hate annoying sounds.

177. Would you rather have chapped lips that never heal or terrible dandruff that can't be treated?

Another of the lose, lose would you rather question. So, which is worse, painful lips or painless but seriously robust dandruff.

178. Would you rather live without hot water for showers/baths or live without a washing machine?

If you are one of those people without either, I wish you the best. I've been without both before for a bit, it isn't easy.

179. Would you rather be alone for the rest of your life or always be surrounded by annoying people?

Not really a good choice here unless you really don't like being around other people.

180. Would you rather be locked in a room that is constantly dark for a week or a room that is constantly bright for a week?

Also, in either scenario, you don't have a phone or source of light. And don't have a way to block the light in the bright room.

181. Would you rather accidentally be responsible for the death of a child or accidentally be responsible for the deaths of three adults?

This is a variation of the train track dilemma. Is a child's life worth more than an adult life? Which would cause you the most guilt? And why?

182. Would you rather know when you are going to die or how you are going to die? (You can't change the time or method of your death.)

I would probably go with not knowing either, but that's not one of the choices.

183. Would you rather have everything you eat be too salty or not salty enough no matter how much salt you add?

This is a hard one for me, because I love food, and either one sounds just awful.

184. Would you rather never have to work again or never have to sleep again (you won't feel tired or suffer negative health effects)?

No need for sleep would definitely give you a lot more hours to live life, but then again permanent retirement sounds pretty good too.

This one will probably shine some light on what screen you like shining light on you. And yes, Reddit counts as social media for all those Redditors out there.

186. Would you rather be fluent in all languages and never be able to travel or be able to travel anywhere for a year but never be able to learn a word of a different language?

All the languages of the world, but no travel. Trip of a lifetime but never being able to learn even a world of a different language. Tough choice.

187. Would you rather be put in a maximum-security federal prison with the hardest of the hardened criminals for one year or be put in a relatively relaxed prison where wall street types are held for ten years?

Prison is rough for anyone, but some prisons are definitely worse than others!

188. Would you rather have everything on your phone right now (browsing history, photos, etc.) made public to anyone who searches your name or never use a cell phone again?

Yeah, this one is painful, but I reckon a lot of folks will be switching back to landline. Hit me up on my beeper!

189. Would you rather be an amazing artist but not be able to see any of the art you created or be an amazing musician but not be able to hear any of the music you create?

Would you still create art if you couldn't experience your creations?

190. Would you rather have everyone laugh at your jokes but not find anyone else's jokes funny or have no one laugh at your jokes but you still find other people's jokes funny?

I don't really know how you wouldn't be able to find other people's jokes funny and still make jokes. Maybe if you were like some hyper-intelligent joke telling artificial intelligence. Anyways, I guess not many of these are grounded in reality, that's what makes them fun!

191. Would you rather wake up in the middle of an unknown desert or wake up in a rowboat on an unknown body of water?

Is the water fresh or salt? Who knows! No going back on your choice after you taste the water.

192. Would you rather always have a great body for your entire life but have slightly below average intelligence or have a mediocre body for your entire life but be slightly above average in intelligence?

It's like the classic beauty versus intelligence question but turned down in intensity to like a 3 or 4.

193. Would you rather be in debt for $100,000 or never be able to make more than $3,500 a month?

The real question is, do you believe in yourself? Can you claw your way out of debt and make a ton of money? Or is 3.5k good with you and it's not worth chancing it with that amount of debt?

194. Would you rather have the police hunting you for a murder you didn't commit or a psychopathic clown hunting you?

You could just figure out a way to kill the clown, but then it is a clown... hunting you. You know, the stuff of nightmares.

195. Would you rather be constantly tired no matter how much you sleep or constantly hungry no matter how much you eat?
Assuming that there are no health problems besides the feeling of hunger and sleepiness.
Wow, being exhausted would be rough but being hangry all the time might be worse.

196. Would you rather live a comfortable and peaceful life in the woods in a small cabin without much human interaction or a life full of conflict and entertainment in a mansion in a city?

I like this question because it tells you a lot about what a person wants from life.

197. Would you rather walk around work or school for the whole day without realizing there is a giant brown stain on the back of your pants or realize the deadline for that important paper/project was yesterday, and you are nowhere near done?

Public humiliation or academic failure, what is your poison of preference?

198. Would you rather be so afraid of heights that you can't go to the second floor of a building or be so afraid of the sun that you can only leave the house on rainy days?

Sure, I could use this opportunity to make fun of a particularly rainy city or country, but I'm not going to. Because I don't want people from there to email me.

199. Would you rather get tipsy from just one sip of alcohol and ridiculously drunk from just one alcoholic drink or never get drunk no matter how much alcohol you drank?

Cheap nights out or the reigning champion of drinking contests. I reckon it depends on what you consider a good time.

200. Would you rather be hired for a well-paying job that you lied to get and have no idea how to do or be about to give the most important presentation of your life but you can't remember any of the material you prepared?

The question is, are you better at short-term high-pressure BS or the long con BS that it takes to fool everyone at the company.

201. Would you rather get $2,000 a month until you die or $500,000 right now?

The old lottery dilemma, up front now or over time? Also, depends a lot on how long you are expecting to live.

202. Would you rather lose the three possessions you hold most dear or lose everything else except for those three possessions?

And I mean, we've got to know what those three possessions are.

203. Would you rather get a suitcase that has $10,000 or a suitcase that has a 50/50 chance to be $1,000 or $50,000?

Another one of those questions that looks at how risk seeking or risk averse someone is.

204. Would you rather help one person a lot who really needs it or make one hundred people's lives a little bit better?

This seems like a simple question, but it does get at the heart of a deeper ethical question about what constitutes the greater good. Does the amount of people or the amount of help matter more?

205. Would you rather eat a live worm or a dead worm?
No body likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms.
206. Would you rather be completely offline for the next year or lose a finger or toe of your choice?

How addicted to tech are you? Losing a finger or toe might be worth it.

207. Would you rather instantly get to your goal weight and get buff / in shape or instantly grow 4 inches?

I guess this one depends a lot on whether you want to be taller or not. I think if you are asking someone already pretty tall it might be better to try a different question.

208. Would you rather have a leaky faucet that can't be fixed / replaced or a running toilet that can't be fixed / replaced?

Both incredible annoying but different sounds. Oh and neither is not an option.

209. Would you rather have a non-venomous spider infestation or a mouse infestation in your house?

Depending on your phobias, you probably know which one right away. But if you are cool with both the spiders might be the more chill roommates.

210. Would you rather cheat at a game and win or lose but know you gave it your best shot?

Okay, so you know which answer you "should" choose. But which would you really choose?

211. Would you rather stay in one of those sensory deprivation tanks for a day or in a room designed for overstimulation for a day?

This one is pretty hard to answer if you've never been sensory deprived. But if you've spent some time in a quiet place with no phone or entertainment you can kind of get the gist.

212. Would you rather swallow five live worms or one live cockroach?

Just pretend they are squirmy gummy worms or skittering chips and either should go down fine!

213. Would you rather everyone who meets you (including family) forget who you are and that they ever knew you two hours after you leave their sight or everyone who meets you know absolutely everything you did for the last 48 hours?

It's either going to be a really lonely existence or you are going to have to be careful what you do and say two days before you go out. Either that or just stop caring what people think of you.

Deep would you rather questions

These would you rather questions are great for making you think a bit more than your average would you rather question. I don't think they'll give you an existential crisis, but hopefully they will make you think about something in a new light.

214. Would you rather be feared by all or loved by all?

The perfect question for all you aspiring dictators out there.

215. Would you rather sell all of your possessions or sell one of your organs?

You pick the organ, but you still have to go through surgery. But at least you get to pick if you go that route.

216. Would you rather be infamous in history books or be forgotten after your death?

People say any publicity is good publicity, but I'll leave you to be the judge of that.

217. Would you rather be reincarnated as a fly or just cease to exist after you die?

Is it better to live life eating poop, or not to live at all?

218. Would you rather never get angry or never be envious?

Get your Buddha on and be at peace, but which one plagues you more?

219. Would you rather have a horribly corrupt government or no government?

I love this question because it gets into where the line is between a government helping its citizens thrive vs. holding them back. When does a government cease being a useful tool for the humans living under it?

220. Would you rather be held in high regard by your parents or your friends?

Your answer will probably depend a lot on your relationship with your parents and how close you are to your friends.

221. Would you rather be poor but help people or become incredibly rich by hurting people?

If you answer this one truthfully, even if it's only to yourself, you might learn a lot about who you are. What you do with that knowledge is up to you.

222. Would you rather humans go to the moon again or go to mars?

Close or far, where should we hit up next?

223. Would you rather know the uncomfortable truth of the world or believe a comforting lie?

How blissful is ignorance? Even if you know the truth does it change anything? Red pill or blue pill time.

224. Would you rather die in 20 years with no regrets or die in 50 years with many regrets?

A tough choice, a good life or a long life. A short life or a life full of regrets.

225. Would you rather be transported permanently 500 years into the future or 500 years into the past?

This one totally depends on whether you are optimistic about the future of humans or not. Also lets you know if you prefer to take a chance or bet on something you know.

226. Would you rather donate your body to science or donate your organs to people who need them?

Scientific research or helping those in need, both worthy goals.

227. Would you rather be famous when you are alive and forgotten when you die or unknown when you are alive but famous after you die?

Legacy or life in the limelight, your choice! For a lot of people their greatest wish is to never be forgotten. For others, it's what happens in life that matters.

228. Would you rather go to jail for 4 years for something you didn't do or get away with something horrible you did but always live in fear of being caught?

Four years is a long time, but the rest of your life in fear might be just as bad.

This'll be an easy choice for those who prefer rural life and like to be alone, but a much harder choice for those who enjoy the company of others.

230. Would you rather live your entire life in a virtual reality where all your wishes are granted or just in the normal real world?

Is the real world, is this just fantasy, caught in a landslide...

231. Would you rather have a horrible job, but be able to retire comfortably in 10 years or have your dream job, but have to work until the day you die?

How much can you put up with, that's the question!

232. Would you rather lose all of your memories from birth to now or lose your ability to make new long-term memories?

It would be rough to lose your identity, but then it would also be pretty rough not to remember anything but your early years.

233. Would you rather always be able to see 5 minutes into the future or always be able to see 100 years into the future?

With 5 minutes into the future you would make a pretty awesome superhero, with 100 years you could see how the future of humanity will change based on choices made today.

234. Would you rather be forced to kill one innocent person or five people who committed minor crimes?

This is a great one for figuring out how much you value the law over the individual.

235. Would you rather work very hard at a rewarding job or hardly have to work at a job that isn't rewarding?

This one gets to the essence of whether you get more meaning from work or your free time.

236. Would you rather have a criminal justice system that actually works and is fair or an administrative branch that is free of corruption?

Okay so maybe branches of government aren't super exciting, but they are important for society. So, which do you think does more good for the country, a good judicial branch or a good administrative branch?

237. Would you rather have real political power but be relatively poor or be ridiculously rich and have no political power?

While money usually equates power, we are switching it up for this question. Do you prefer the power to guide your own fate or the power to control the fate of others?

238. Would you rather have the power to gently nudge anyone's decisions or have complete puppet master control of five people?

This question could get real dark, real quick. But let's not shy away from asking questions that might tell us more about ourselves and our friends. Don't forget to discuss the moral implications of your choice.

239. Would you rather live in a utopia as a normal person or in a dystopia but you are the supreme ruler?

This a great one for getting a rough idea of the level of megalomania bouncing between those synapses of yours.

240. Would you rather snitch on your best friend for a crime they committed or go to jail for the crime they committed?

Oh, sure we know the answer you'll say, but which one is ACTUALLY true.

241. Would you rather be born again in a totally different life or born again with all the knowledge you have now?

I'm guessing your answer might depend a lot on how much you like your parents and the country you live in.

242. Would you rather all conspiracy theories be true or live in a world where no leaders really know what they are doing?

You want the Illuminati or the IllumiNOTi? ... I'll show myself out.

243. Would you rather know all the mysteries of the universe or know every outcome of every choice you make?

Knowledge is power, and either choice is a lot of power to wield. Choose well!

244. Would you rather spend two years with your soul mate only to have them die and you never love again or spend your life with someone nice you settled for?

You can tell a lot about how you view love and relationships by how you answer this question.

245. Would you rather have all corporations know all of your computer usage or the government know all of your computer usage?

Both very dystopian, and both kind of already true.

246. Would you rather inherit 20 million dollars when you turn 18 or spend the time earning 50 million dollars through your hard work?

You could easily make a case for either one, but which one will you pick?

247. Would you rather the general public think you are a horrible person, but your family is very proud of you, or your family thinks you are a horrible person, but the general public be very proud of you?

Who is more important to you, family or humanity at large? Why?

248. Would you rather fight for a cause you believe in, but doubt will succeed or fight for a cause that you only partially believe in but have a high chance of your cause succeeding?

How about it, future revolutionaries?! Are you idealists? Or pragmatists?

249. Would you rather be famous for inventing a deadly new weapon or invent something that helps the world but someone else gets all the credit for inventing it?

Are you all about you or all about humanity? Is it the credit or the outcome that is more important?

250. Would you rather live in a haunted house where the ghosts ignore you and do their own thing or be a ghost in a house living out a pleasant and uneventful week from your life again and again?

Maybe it's just me thinking that a lot of these questions would make good movies. But I could totally see either of these being a touching drama.

251. Would you rather write a novel that will be widely considered the most important book in the past 200 years, but you and the book will only be appreciated after your death or be the most famous erotica writer of your generation?

They are both noble callings. Either way, you are helping folks out.

252. Would you rather have done something horribly embarrassing and only your best friend knows or not done something horribly embarrassing, but everyone except your best friend thinks you did it?

Is reality or what people think more important to you?

253. Would you rather eat at the same restaurant you usually do or a new restaurant that just opened?

I feel like this once gets a bigger truth about whether a person seeks the familiar and safe or the novel and risky.

254. Would you rather be given a new BMW now or be given a truly epic $2 million dollar mausoleum after you die?

It'll be awesome, but you won't be around to see it. Also, people will remember you, but you won't be around to enjoy that either. Depends on how much a legacy matters to you.

255. Would you rather remember every single thing that happened in the last 10 years of your life or know what you are going to do for the next 10 months but not be able to change it?

Why wouldn't you be able to change it? I don't know, fate, destiny, it's a would you rather question don't look too much into it.

256. Would you rather stop everyone in the world except for yourself from getting any illness or stop yourself from ever getting any illness while the rest of the world stays as it is?

This includes non-infectious illnesses like cancer and Alzheimer's and no one will know it was you who cured all illness. So, will it be your good or the greater good?

257. Would you rather be a human brain in a robot body or have your brain enhanced with a computer in your human body?

How much cyborg are you comfortable with? I imagine it would also have an impact on lifespan as well.

258. Would you rather solve problems in the world or just live your life without worrying about the problems in the world?

This one is less of a hypothetical and more of personal question about how you view the world and your place in it.

259. Would you rather be the most popular person in your school / workplace or the smartest / most talented?

What I was going for with this question is trying to see whether acclaim and fame or people liking them drives the person more.

260. Would you rather live in a country with more rules and societal expectations that is safer and more organized or a country with less rules and societal expectations that is more dangerous and chaotic?

This question was inspired by a pair of episodes from the podcast Freakanomics. (The U.S. Is Just Different - So Let's Stop Pretending We're Not and The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism). Worth a listen if you have the time.

261. Would you rather live as a hermit for ten years or live the rest of your life in a country chosen completely at random?

Feeling lucky? Or maybe you just want to get away from the world? As always, more details to flesh out the reasoning behind the answer are better.

271. Would you rather genuinely and unironically love every movie you see or song you hear despite the quality of the movie or song and what others think of it?

It would be like every song is your new favorite song, or every movie you see would be your new favorite. Infinite amazing entertainment or unlimited banging music.

272. Would you rather there be absolutely nothing after you die or wander the earth as a ghost unable to interact with people or things and be alone for eternity?

Back to where you were before you were born, or forever a watcher. I always liked that Mark Twain quote "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

273. Would you rather live in a house that is incredibly unique and beautiful but plain on the inside or one that is incredibly unique and beautiful on the inside but plain on the outside?

I was hoping this question might get at whether a person gets more satisfaction from the attention they get from other people or what they surround themselves with.

274. Would you rather take a pill that gives you 100 more healthy years or a pill that makes you 10x more intelligent than you currently are?

Maybe you could use that intelligence to find a cure for aging, or maybe you can use those 100 years to build up knowledge or find a way to boost human intelligence.

275. Would you rather know the secrets of everyone on Earth or know everything we don't know about the universe except for the Earth?

Near infinite knowledge, or localized actionable knowledge. The secrets of the universe or the secrets of your fellow humans.

276. Would you rather everyone in the world be kinder and more compassionate or more intelligent?

Peace on earth or a more intelligent species. Which one would lead to the greatest good? It's up to you to ponder.

278. Would you rather be watched at all times by a strict but benevolent AI where there is no crime or poverty or live in a place with no laws, government, or leaders?

Basically a "utopian" police state run by computers or an anarchist's wonderland. And while we are on the topic, which do you think would be better for humanity?

279. Would you rather live in a world run by children aged 5 to 12 or a world run by one supremely powerful person randomly selected by lottery every 15 years?

You might automatically lean towards the one supremely powerful person, but we all know that one person at work or school. Now just imagine that one person but they have unlimited power.

Weird would you rather questions

If you are looking for bizarre would you rather questions, you'll find them here. If it was weird and not funny enough to go into the funny would you rather questions section, I put them here!

280. Would you rather your shirts be always two sizes too big or one size too small?

Rocking the baggy style or do you prefer the tightness?

281. Would you rather find five dollars on the ground or find all your missing socks?

This one is a pretty low bar. Like an entry level would you rather question.

281. Would you rather have one nipple or two belly buttons?

I'm not really sure how you would end up with two belly buttons, but I'm sure that it has happened before.

282. Would you rather eat a ketchup sandwich or a Siracha sandwich?

Let's say for either one, it's not like a little bit. It's full-on oozing out of the sandwich when you bite into it.

283. Would you rather use a push lawnmower with a bar that is far too high or far too low?

This one is weird. But personal. My lawnmower had issues.

284. Would you rather eat a box of dry spaghetti noodles or two cups of uncooked rice?

Crunch, crunch, crunch, ... wait was that a tooth? Either way, you'll be getting increasingly full over the next two hours or so.

285. Would you rather eat a spoonful of wasabi or a spoonful of extremely spicy hot sauce?

Both spicy, but quite a different type of spice to each. There's the short nose blast spicy or the long tongue burn spice. Oh, and you have nothing to wash either one down with.

286. Would you rather have hands that kept growing as you got older or feet that kept growing as you got older?

Yeah, so this one definitely belongs in the weird category.

287. Would you rather not be able to open any closed doors (locked or unlocked) or not be able to close any open doors?

Either way, it's going to be a pain getting in and out of your house and still keep it safe.

288. Would you rather have plants grow at 20 times their normal rate when you are near or for people and animals to stop aging when you are near them?

I don't know even know where you will go with this one. There are a lot of possibilities for each choice, so make sure to ask "Why?" when the person answers.

289. Would you rather always feel like someone is following you, but no one is, or always feel like someone is watching you, even though no one is?

There folks out there that have both conditions can't imagine how tough that must be.

290. Would you rather live in a house with see-through walls in a city or in the same see-through house but in the middle of a forest far from civilization?

How much do you enjoy being around people? Would you give up social interaction for privacy?

291. Would you rather have every cat or dog that gets lost end up at your house or everyone's clothes that they forget in the dryer get teleported to your house?

Either one would get annoying fast unless you found a way to make a business out of it.

Either way, whoever you are talking to is going to be super uncomfortable.

293. Would you rather all plants scream when you cut them / pick their fruit or animals beg for their lives before they are killed?

So, yes, this could be considered creepy, cruel, and unsettling. But hey, you wanted difficult would you rather questions, right?

294. Would you rather wake up each morning to find that a random animal appendage has replaced your nondominant arm or permanently replace your bottom half with an animal bottom of your choice (not human)?

I want you to think long and hard about the realities of it before just shouting out "I want to be a centaur!".

295. Would you rather have a map that shows you the location of anything you want to find and can be used again and again but has a margin of error of up to five miles or a device that allows you to find the location of anything you want with incredible accuracy but can only be used three times?

Would you be able to make those three uses count enough to make up for losing it or would it be better to have unlimited uses? Either way, you are going to make an awesome treasure hunter. I believe in you.

296. Would you rather have all animals feel compelled to obey you if you come within 10 feet of them or be given the opportunity to genetically design a pet that will be loyal only to you with the combined DNA of three animals?

You could make an amazing pet combining three animals, but then again being king of all animals (in close proximity) would be pretty amazing too.

297. Would you rather have someone impersonating you and doing really amazing things that you get the credit for or find money hidden in weird places all around your house every day but you can't figure out where the money comes from or how it keeps getting there?

Money elves, creepy breaking and entering philanthropists, or something else. Random people hugging you on the street thanking you for what you've done, but you have no idea what "you" did.

298. Would you rather wake up every morning with a new hundred-dollar bill in your pocket but not know where it came from or wake up every morning with a new fifty-dollar bill in your pocket and know where it comes from?

Do you prefer the mystery and the extra 50 or would the not knowing slowly eat away at you?

299. Would you rather have a clown only you can see that follows you everywhere and just stands silently in a corner watching you without doing or saying anything or have a real-life stalker who dresses like the Easter bunny that everyone can see?

Can't deny, I took some inspiration from Donnie Darko for this one.

300. Would you rather be an amazing virtuoso at any instrument but only if you play naked or be able to speak any language but only if you close your eyes and dance while you are doing it?

Just hope that recording studio has lots of sanitizing wipes.

301. Would you rather everything you dream each night come true when you wake up or everything a randomly chosen person dreams each night come true when they wake up?

Yeah, hard to say whether I would prefer my nightmares running around or someone else's nightmares running around.

302. Would you rather have a boomerang that would find and kill any one person of your choosing, anywhere in the world, but can only be used once or a boomerang that always returns to you with one dollar?

Magic boomerangs. Well, I guess it was inevitable. You don't start a huge list of would you rather questions without expecting magic boomerangs to show up at least once.

303. Would you rather have someone secretly give you LSD on a random day and time once every 6 months or have everyone in the world all take LSD at the same time once every 5 years?

You know I wonder what would happen if everyone in the world took LSD at once? Honestly, I have no idea, it probably wouldn't be good. One thing is for certain though, whatever happened would be weird.

304. Would you rather all electrical devices mysteriously stop working (possibly forever) or the governments of the world are only run by people going through puberty?

Well, they made a show about all the electrical devices stopping. Now they just need to have a new West Wing with junior high students in place of all the politicians.

305. Would you rather have an immortal murderous sloth that always knows your location always slowly hunting you or never be able to find clothes that fit properly, clothes that are always a little uncomfortable?

Always on the move or always uncomfortable? Makes me wonder what a murderous sloth would look like, similar to a regular one but with a glint of malice in its' eyes perhaps?

306. Would you rather fight an angry 15ft anaconda to the death or 15 angry koalas to the death?

This is assuming you have buns, because as we all know, anacondas don't want none unless you got buns. Also, koalas can be pretty terrifying, not saying anacondas aren't, but don't underestimate a pissed off koala.

307. Would you rather live in a house filled with mannequins dressed as clowns or a house filled with porcelain dolls?

Both very creepy in their own special horrifying way, but which would you rather walk through at night with all the lights out?

308. Would you rather have the olfactory senses of a dog or see more colors in the electromagnetic spectrum like a mantis shrimp?

Either way it would be a super cool new way to experience the world. Also, if you don't know much about the mantis shrimp, look them up, they are genuinely amazing.

309. Would you rather live in a world of smooth curves with no sharp angles or a word of only sharp angles and no curves? Assuming humans keep the shape they are now.

Are you going for that Antoni Gaudí vibe or that Josep Maria Subirachs vibe? Shout out to all my Catalan readers.

310. Would you rather be forced to speak in a single different accent not of your choosing forever or speak in a random different accent whenever you wake up for one year?

Friends and colleagues are going to be looking at you real weird for that one year. But at least it ends right?

311. Would you rather have all your meals prepared for you but you don't get to choose the dish or sleep eight hours every night but you don't get to choose your bedtime?

Kind of a weird one but depending on how picky of an eater you are or how sleep deprived you are it might be interesting.

312. Would you rather be a human swiss army knife like Inspector Gadget or be the richest person in the World?

This is a difficult one the more you think of it. You could change a lot of things in the World with that much money. But come on, Gadget powers would be pretty amazing.

313. Would you rather have your friends never bail on plans they make or be able to make shoot paper into a trash bin no matter how difficult the shot?

This one depends a lot on how flaky your friends are. If your friends rarely cancel you could probably skip this one since it's a pretty easy choice.

314. Would you rather be able to see through walls but not windows or stay the same as you are now?

Sure, you might jump all over the see through walls, but you have to consider you might not want to see everything that goes on behind walls. Also, people will look at you weird with you staring at walls all the time.

315. Would you rather always know exactly what time it is or always know which direction you are facing?

A human compass or a human clock, it's like the lamest set of super powers.

316. Would you rather have the ability to change your hair color at will or the color of your clothes at will?

Either one would be very cool, but kind of depends on how much fun they like to have with their hair or clothes. Now you can find out if the person you are asking is more of a colorful hair person or a colorful clothes person.

317. Would you rather have all drugs be legalized or dueling between consenting adults be legalized?

We are talking ALL drugs, not just the fun and useful ones. And perhaps dueling would be popular or perhaps not. Either choice could possibly lead to quite a bit of chaos or might not do much of anything.

Extra would you rather questions

Would you rather live without a dishwasher or a clothes dryer?

Would you rather feel safe and secure no matter if there is danger or never be in danger but always feel like you were?

Would you rather start a new religion or be high up in the rankings of a major religion?

Would you rather be reborn as a tree or an insect?

Would you rather wear a hat or put on sunscreen?

Would you rather go to a busy city or a quiet place for a vacation?

Would you rather talk to your friend on the phone or text?

Would you rather use the self-checkout line or go through a line with a cashier in a grocery store?

Would you rather be too hot or too cold?

Would you rather jump out of an airplane or hang glide?

Would you rather stick with what's comfortable for you or follow the latest trend?

Would you rather drive a car or ride public transportation?

Would you rather listen to a podcast or an audio book?

Would you rather go to a new restaurant every weekend for a month or go to the same restaurant that you know is good for a month?

Would you rather go on a resort vacation or a backpacking vacation?

Would you rather have four sons or four daughters?

Would you rather spend money on fine dining or brand name things?

Would you rather live in a run-down RV or a luxury tiny house?

Would you rather do cross-fit or yoga?

Would you rather do a physically hard job for a day or a boring job for a week?

Would you rather live in a city or a suburb?

Would you rather spend the last day of your life at home with friends and family or somewhere you always dreamed of going?

Would you rather have a lot of time or a lot of money?

Would you rather live your life with tasteless food or without friends?

Would you rather go to India or Egypt?

Would you rather go on a liquid diet or a meat only diet?

Would you rather dance in public or do a public speech?

Would you rather learn Korean or Japanese?

Would you rather go clothes shopping in a store or online?

Would you rather spend a day hiking or hanging out at a beach?

Would you rather buy something practical or pretty for your partner?

Would you rather go to Disney or Universal Studios?

Would you rather watch a horror movie or a bizarre artsy movie?

Would you rather drive a sports car or a Tesla?

Would you rather be really good at magic tricks or making jokes?

Would you rather save 10 children or 20 adults?

Would you rather lose your front teeth or all your hair?

In a heist, would you rather be in the action or work behind a computer?

Would you rather be more talented at singing or acting?

Would you rather deal with a hurricane or a tsunami?

Would you rather have the wisdom of elders or the energy of youth?

Would you rather be a leader or a follower?

Would you rather eat watermelon with mustard or drink coffee with orange juice?

Would you rather have a mosquito bite on your butt or the bottom of your foot?

Would you rather be good at creating ideas or taking action?

Would you rather not brush your teeth or not take a shower for a week?

Would you rather get be tickled for 10 mins or not be able to talk for a week?

Would you rather buy a small amount things as needed or in bulk from Costco?

Would you rather do your homework/task in advance and enjoy the rest of your time or enjoy your time first and do the work last minute?

When you are in a bad mood, would you rather cancel the plan with your friend or still show up?

Would you rather have a non-stop burping disorder or a non-stop farting disorder?

Would you rather raise newborn children or take care of elderly parents?

Would you rather save your child or partner from drowning in the water?

Would you rather have a poor but affectionate partner or a cold but rich partner?

Would you rather binge watch documentaries or reality shows?

Would you rather work hard to make yourself happy or towards a greater good?

Would you rather stick with eating only healthy food or enjoy life eating whatever you want?

When flying somewhere, would you rather pay less and have to do more lay overs or pay more for less layovers?

Would you rather learn to box or a martial art?

Would you rather go to see a Beatles or Queen cover band?

Would you rather drive at night with your interior lights or have someone follow you the whole trip with their high beams on?

Would you rather have food allergies or environmental allergies?

Would you rather have a partner who has a similar personality but different hobbies/interests or a different personality but similar hobbies?

Would you rather go out with someone who knows a lot of things or is good at sports?

Would you rather have words of affirmation or acts of service?

Would you rather to be able to run a long distance or be able to lift heavy weights?

Would you rather work alone at home or in the office with other people?

You had a long day. Would you rather go home or hang out with friends?

Would you rather go to a party with a bunch of people you don't know or a small gathering with people you know well?

Would you rather get a tattoo or get your body pierced?

Would you rather eat a live octopus or cow cartilage?

When you receive a call from an unknown number would you rather answer the call or let it go to voicemail?

Would you rather to be the center of attention or in the background at a party?

Would you rather work in a quiet room or a cafe?

Would you rather filter what you are about to say or say what's on your mind?

Would you rather read a paper book or on a tablet?

Would you rather have a plain looking plant that grows on its own or something that needs care but gives you fruit or flowers?

Would you rather go to an escape room or an axe throwing place with your friends?

Would you rather drink mixed drinks or something on the rocks?

Would you rather go on a snorkeling or a scuba diving trip?

Would you rather buy products from name brands or a small business?

You heard that your friend talked behind your back. Would you rather confront your friend or just stop talking to the friend?

Would you rather fix the education system or health care?

Would you rather spend hours to get something for free or pay for what you want right now?

Would you rather go to a museum or a concert?

Would you rather put up with toothache or headache?

Would you rather have anchovies or pineapples on your pizza?

Would you rather have friends who are similar to you or totally different?

Would you rather make something fun with a laser cutter or a 3D printer?

Would you rather have many options to choose from or just two?

When you have a problem would you rather talk with someone or try to figure it out by yourself?

Would you rather shave or wax?

Would you rather eat savory food or sweet and savory food?

Would you rather spend money on education or work more to build more experience in your field?

Would you rather sleep with someone snoring or grinding their teeth?

Would you rather go on domestic trips or trips to different countries?

Would you rather put Sprite in beer or wine?

Would you rather wake up one day as a different gender or stay with the same gender?

Would you rather spend your day off relaxing near the pool or at home?

Would you rather build a spa or a nice outdoor fireplace?

Would you rather go on a cruise or to an all-inclusive resort?

Would you rather read the book or watch the movie that is based on that book?

Would you rather use a porta-potty or go somewhere there are no people in the woods?

Would you rather ride a snow mobile or a jet ski?

Would you rather eat a juicy cheesy burger or a fresh ingredient pizza with an amazing crust?

Would you rather learn French or Russian?

Your airplane crashed and you are the only survivor on an island. Would you rather eat fish or birds for the rest of your life?

Would you rather get attacked by porcupines or skunks?

Would you rather drink coffee without cream or without sugar?

Would you rather be alone or with your family for Mother's Day/Father's Day? (If you are not a parent let's imagine you are one)

Would you rather do the dishes or do the laundry?

Would you rather grow your own vegetables or buy them at a grocery store for the convenience?

It's a beautiful Sunday. After lunch would you rather take a walk or a nap?

Would you rather work with coworkers you don't enjoy being around at a great job or coworkers you love being around, but the job is boring?

Would you rather wear comfortable but ugly shoes or very fashionable but uncomfortable shoes for a night out?

Would you rather walk in and wait for 1 hour to get into a restaurant or make a reservation 1 month ahead?

Would you rather do a bar crawl tour or a food tour?

Would you rather watch YouTube or Netflix all day?

Would you rather go into a crowded city because there are lots of cool places or stay outside of the city for peace and quiet?

Would you rather plan things in advance or do things as it goes depending on what mood you are in?

Would you rather cook good food or have someone else cook something okay for you?

Would you rather spend money on a family restaurant or a fine dining restaurant on the weekend?

Would you rather sleep with a fuzzy blanket or a thin cover?

Would you rather spend more money on bedding or towels?

In your hotel room, would you rather have a comfortable bed or an amazing shower?

Would you rather live in a country where you know you are going to make a good money but don't like the lifestyle or you make less money, but enjoy the lifestyle?

Let's say you are on a fasting diet, and you can eat only one meal a day. Would you rather eat a big lunch or big dinner?

Would you rather work with animals or kids?

Would you rather watch a foreign movie with subtitles or dubbed?

Would you rather give money to a homeless person day by day or donate a lump sum to an organization?

Would you rather have a metal door with triple locks, iron bars all around the windows as a security system for your home or none of those and just a gun?

You have money to hire a personal designer. Would you rather redo your house or change your style from head to toe?

Would you rather follow the instructions on how to do something or try without instructions?

Would you rather have a friend who knows a lot of cool places to go or a friend who has lots of friends?

Would you rather live in a big house with lots of stuff or in an apartment owning less things?

Your work wants to pay you a bonus. Would you rather get a portion every 3 months or so or get a lump sum at the end of a year?

Would you rather go to 3 - 5 different countries for a short amount of time or stay in one country a long time and experience that country in a deeper way?

Would you rather have more rooms for storage or own less things?

In some countries people slurp noodles, double dip, or eat food with fingers. Would you rather adopt their cultural practices or stick with what you are used to do when you are in their country?

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Riddles are fun for all ages. But riddles for teens are a little different than the types of riddles you would share with younger kids.

Teenagers are constantly distracted. Whether it's the latest social media sensation, high school drama, or keeping up their awesome TikTok channel.

How do you keep your teen focused on things that keep their minds engaged? Riddles for teens provide a fun and engaging way to sharpen their critical thinking skills.

Pull out this list of riddles at the dinner table for some fun and interesting conversations!

The Best Riddles For Teens

I have no doors but I have keys, I have no rooms but I do have a space, you can enter but you can never leave. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel

What do teens say when they have trouble with even numbers in their math class?
Answer: I can't even

Lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward. What is it?
Answer: An icicle

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
Answer: A watermelon

What do you find at the end of the line?
Answer: The letter E

What is it that you cannot hold even ten minute, even though it is lighter than a feather?
Answer: Your breath

What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom

I call the trees my home, yet I never go inside, and if I ever fall off the tree I will be surely be dead.
Answer: The leaves

How can a man go 8 days without sleep?
Answer: He only sleeps at night

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
Answer: A palm

I sound so cool and people all over the world come again and again to see me. Most people spend years with me but you can't be too old or young to come see me, unless you decide to make me part of your career? I am able to make you smarter and wealthier too. What am I?
Answer: School

A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?
Answer: The woman is blind and is reading braille

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?
Answer: Secret

What did Physics say to History when they are arguing?
Answer: Don't change the subject

If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place

What has a thumb but no fingers and is not living?
Answer: A mitten

What fruit is always sad?
Answer: Blueberry

What is it that has a bottom at the top of them?
Answer: Your legs

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?
Answer: A coffin

You can't keep this until you have given it.
Answer: A promise

I am a term used to confirm. But take away my front, my face, I become known as human avarice.
Answer: Agreed

Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch. After eating lunch, they paid the bill. But Sam and Peter did not pay the bill, so who did?
Answer: Their friend, Tuesday

What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON . . .
Answer: The letter "D." The sequence contains the first letter of each month.

Alcohol makes me thrive and multiply, yet water will kill me. What am I?
Answer: Fire

During which month do people sleep the least?
Answer: February (there are fewer nights in February).

What gets sharper the more you use it?
Answer: Your brain

What can make an octopus laugh?
Answer: Ten tickles (tentacles)

I am the sweetest and most romantic fruit. What am I?
Answer: Honeydew

I have hands, yet I cannot shake your hand, cannot give you five and have no fingers. What am I?
Answer: A clock

What is made of water but if you put it into water it will die?
Answer: An ice cube

Two cannibals were chatting as they had their dinner. One complained that he really quite disliked his new mother-in-law. What was the advice given to him by his companion?
Answer: So just finish your vegetables!

Name three days consecutively where none of the seven days of the week appear.
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

What happens four times in a teenager's life, once in adult life and never in childhood?
Answer: The letter E

I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
Answer: A candle

What did the beach say when the tide came in?
Answer: Long time, no sea

What's black and white and red all over?
Answer: A zebra

If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?
Answer: There is no smoke, it's an electric train.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: Neither, they both weigh one pound!

You walk into a room with a match, a karosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
Answer: The match

They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Answer: Stars

You can drop me from the tallest building and I'll be fine, but if you drop me in water I die. What am I?
Answer: A paper

Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck but they shot only three ducks in all. How come?
Answer: The hunters were a man, his son and his grandson.

What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of playing cards

What has a head and a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Answer: Silence

What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat

What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money?
Answer: A river

If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of pink bricks, what is a green house made of?
Answer: Glass

What are your teen's favorite riddles?

Riddles are such a fun and unique way to connect with your kids - no matter how old they are!

We hope you enjoyed this list of riddles for teens. What is your teen's favorite riddle? Let us know in the comments!
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University of Rochester alumna Donna Strickland '89 (PhD), who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been appointed to the Order of Canada.

The award recognizes individuals who have made "extraordinary contributions to the nation." Strickland was appointed a Companion of the Order, the highest of three levels of the award. There can be no more than 165 living companions at any time.

The professor of physics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, is being recognized for her "contributions to optical physics and for her innovative developments in ultra-fast optical science."

"I feel so proud and privileged to be Canadian and I am thrilled to receive this recognition from my country," Strickland told CBC news. "It is an exceptional honor for me to be named a companion of the Order of Canada. This award means a great deal to me."

Strickland and Gérard Mourou, former engineering professor and scientist at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), were together recognized with the 2018 Nobel Prize for revolutionizing the field of high-intensity laser physics.

Mourou was Strickland's PhD advisor during the time they pioneered "chirped-pulse amplification." Known as CPA, this work was the basis of Strickland's PhD in optics dissertation.

Today, CPA has applications in corrective eye surgeries and other surgical procedures, data storage, and quantum computing.

Read more

Tags: alumni, announcement, Institute of Optics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Nobel Prize

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University of Rochester alumna Donna Strickland '89 (PhD), who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been appointed to the Order of Canada. The award recognizes individuals who have made "extraordinary contributions to the nation." Strickland was appointed a Companion of the Order, the highest of three levels of the award.

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Multiplayer is one of the most popular and effective ways to leverage Minecraft in the classroom. It's a great way to encourage collaboration, communication and problem solving as students work together on projects in a shared Minecraft world.

About

Minecraft: Education Edition features multiplayer games that connect using picture based join codes. All players in the same Office 365 tenant can host and join worlds together in the classroom. For most users, this means the part of your email address after the @ symbol matches that of the other players. A single multiplayer game can host a maximum of 40 players, and can connect players across all supported platforms. Server-style multiplayer or a dedicated server is not possible at this time.

Although the Multiplayer experience was designed and optimized for classroom use where all players are on the same network, Multiplayer across different internet connections is possible by making some changes to your home network configuration. Visit the How to Set Up a Multiplayer Game from Home Guide to understand how to host a game that players on other networks will be able to join.

Our support team is limited in our ability to troubleshoot unique network issues, but we are always happy to try to help.

Requirements

Here are the requirements for the best possible multiplayer experience:

Multiplayer is possible for players within the same Office 365 tenant.

Players should have the most up-to-date version of Minecraft: Education Edition

All players need to be running the same version of Minecraft: Education Edition to be able to host and join worlds together.

Server-style multiplayer is not possible and a sever license is not available.

If you have trouble connecting to a Multiplayer world, check out the Troubleshooting section of this article for tips on how to resolve common issues.

How to Host a World

Click Play on the home screen

Host an existing world

Choose an existing world to host from the View My Worlds collection. You can also import and launch a new world from the Library Collection. Follow the instructions in the How to host a world in-progress section to host a world that you open from the Library Collection.

Click on a world in your My Worlds collection and then click Host.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

Create a new world to host

On the Play screen, click Create New and then click New.

Select the options you would like applied to your new world, and then click Host.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

How to host a game in-progress

Pause the game and from the Friends tab click Start Hosting then click Confirm.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

How to join a world

Click Play on the Home screen and then click Join World.

Enter the Join Code for the world you want to join by clicking on each picture in order.

Configure settings for your multiplayer game

World Settings

Pause the game, and then click Settings on the World Settings tab.

Select the default permissions you would like players to have when they join your world: Visitor, Member or Operator. Note that any Instructor who joins a world will always have Operator permissions. You can also configure other World settings from this screen.

Player Permissions

Hosts and teachers are able to edit the permission levels and remove other players from the world

Host Settings

Pause your game and click the Friends tab. Take note of the four pictures in your Join Code and share them with players that you want invite into your world.

Restricting access to your world

At some point you may want to limit other players from joining your world. This can be done in a few ways:

Change the Join Code by pausing the game and selecting the refresh symbol next to the Join Code. Players in the world will not have to re-enter their Join Code, however any new players must use the new Join Code.

Use the command /setmaxplayers to limit the amount of people in your world

A teacher or host of a world will always be able to edit their own permissions as well as permissions for other players in the world.

Server Hosting

When using Minecraft: Education Edition, the host must be playing the game in order for others to join. If the hosting player leaves the world, all other players will be removed from the world. This is a different model from Java and Bedrock hosted servers, where you can create always-on multiplayer worlds using custom servers.

Can I setup a dedicated server for multiplayer in Minecraft: Education Edition?

Minecraft: Education is not currently compatible with server software, so it's not possible to set up an always-on world that players can visit anytime. This is a popular piece of feedback and we hope to have a solution in the future.

Can I use my Minecraft: Education Edition licenses to access a Minecraft Bedrock or Java server?

Since each of these Minecraft editions use distinct licensing systems, it's not possible to login to a different edition with Minecraft: Education Edition licenses.

Troubleshooting

Performance Issues

If you are able to connect to a multiplayer game but start to see decreased performance as more players join your game, try the following to improve your experience:

It is recommended that the host computer has at least 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth.

Examine your network speed and ensure the amount of players is not overloading your network.

Turn down the render speed to 4 chunks and turn off fancy graphics in the Video area of the World Settings screen.

For more information on how to best utilize multiplayer with 30 or more students you can connect with other teachers in our community forums.

Connection Issues

Close out of the game and restart the application. Have joining/hosting a world be the first thing you do after launch and login. Once users have played their own world they must restart to join a multiplayer world

Try joining the world manually with the IP address. Directions can be found in How to set up a Multiplayer game at home

Try a new world. NOT one that has been previously saved

Your network needs to allow communications with https://meeservices.azurewebsites.net/ (the URL needs to be "white listed" by any systems in your network that block access to the internet such as router settings, anti-virus or your firewall software)

If you are on iPad:

On your iOS device's home screen (iOS 14 or later), tap Settings.

Tap Privacy. Local network. You'll find a list of apps.

Turn on local network access for the app(s) that you would like to allow network access.

Often times an antivirus software or your firewall can block multiplayer connection. This external article can provide guidance on ensuring your antivirus or firewall is not blocking the multiplayer connection: https://jackboxgames.happyfox.com/kb/article/28-how-to-whitelist-and-resolve-issues-in-antivirus-software-and-firewalls/

If players are not using the same version of Minecraft: Education edition they will see the error "Could not connect. Outdated server". Use our download page to update to the latest version.

If the host computer disconnects (even temporarily) everyone on the world will lose connection. The host will need to re-start the hosting session and all players will need to re-connect with the new join code.

Try connecting your modem directly to your computer using a network cable.

Try turning off other apps on your machine.

Try removing and re-installing Minecraft: Education Edition.

Make sure that port 19132 is not blocked in your network configuration.

You also may need to forward port 19132 on your router. Forwarding ports is useful because it can help to make your network connection more stable and sometimes even faster.

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In a recent post, I noted that the term 'storytelling' is being applied to more and more types of content, not all of them proper stories. On top of that, there's often an over-emphasis on the channels and media used for storytelling at the expense of the stories themselves. But all that begs the question: what does make a good story?

This post draws on academic research into political storytelling, and other sources, to argue that the most effective commercial stories share seven closely related characteristics: drama, familiarity, simplicity, immersion, relatability, agency and trust in the teller. (Discussion continues below infographic.)

Drama
Stories need dramatic development and emotional dynamics. Taking out the 'bad bits' damages trust.
At the very broadest level, drama is the spark that animates all creative forms of advertising and marketing. First, you have to take the features of a product and 'turn them outwards' by expressing them as benefits. Then you need to dramatise those benefits in a compelling and convincing way.

Just as drama turns a benefit into a creative concept, so it turns a neutral sequence of events into a story. A story needs conflict and resolution; tension and release; mystery and revelation. There should be losses and gains, setbacks and comebacks, peaks and troughs. And, above all, a story should be about people: their dreams and desires; loves and hates; problems and passions.

If your story is a work of fiction, it should be relatively easy to create drama. If it's factual, you may have to dig around, or use poetic licence, to give it the drama it lacks. Or your story may have too much drama, so that you're tempted to tone it down to show the characters in the best possible light.

A brand telling its own story will usually prefer to dwell on its successes rather than its setbacks. Even in the age of social engagement, few brands are interested in proving their authenticity by admitting mistakes unless they absolutely have to. When it comes down to it, most brand stories amount to 'it's all good'.

A recent example of this is TSB's 'The Story', which recounts the history of the bank from 1810 to the present day.

As Nick Asbury has observed, this story is beautifully told and illustrated, with a clear narrative arc, but all the conflict and tension has been redacted. Glossing over the brand's chequered history with the euphemistic 'storm' and 'turbulent times' leaves the audience hungry for more. Victory without battle is meaningless.

Sometimes, a story is based on the quest for hidden knowledge, as in films such as The Da Vinci Code or The Fugitive. The same theme drives business-to-business case studies: the service provider is the hero who hacks through the thorns around the castle, revealing the way forward. But the client may resent that narrative if they feel it makes them look stupid or helpless.

Drama is linked to both trust and relatability. A true storyteller has no agenda; they just want to tell their tale. If you censor the 'bad' parts of your story, you reveal your intent to manipulate, which damages trust. And because people know from experience that life isn't a bed of roses, they'll relate to your story more if it has a few twists and turns along the way.

Familiarity
The more familiar a story feels, the more powerful it is.
Stories are never heard in isolation. We evaluate new ones by comparing them with all the other stories we've heard before. And stories with seemingly different events, characters and settings may still share the same underlying structure.

Researchers have found that the more familiar a story feels, the more powerful it is. The stories that delight us most are often built on age-old templates. If your ambition is to tell a 'new' story, bear in mind that if it's too original, to the point of strangeness, audiences may be confused or repulsed rather than intrigued.

In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell put forward the idea of the Monomyth - an archetypal narrative structure that describes a 'hero's journey'.

The hero is an ordinary person who hears a call to adventure. They must then leave their home or family and travel a road of trials, either alone or with assistance. If they succeed, they return to the ordinary world with a prize that has the power to improve life.

The Monomyth is sometimes expressed as a three-part structure comprising departure, initiation and return. In his excellent post Why Stories Matter, Tim Rich summarises the key elements of a commercially oriented story as challenge, action and transformation.

The Monomyth forms the basis for the stories of Homer, Prometheus, Moses, Osiris, the Buddha and Christ. More recently, it's been used to drive the stories of cinematic heroes such as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, Neo in The Matrix and Maximus in Gladiator.

Looking at these examples, it's worth noting that the Monomyth hero is typically male, and that the heroine's journey might take a different path. While the Monomyth can give a satisfying 'weight' to a story, it doesn't fit with everyone's experience. This is a very important point for marketing storytellers.

John Lewis' Christmas advert for 2012 used a classic Monomyth structure. The snowman ventures forth from his natural home, contends with natural and man-made obstacles and retrieves the prize of a hat, scarf and gloves for his snowwife. It's entitled 'Journey', and I noted at the time its similarity to Journey, a video game explicitly based on the Monomyth.

The Monomyth may be ancient, but it never gets old. That's why John Lewis can keep going back to the well, as long as they find a way to refresh the formula. This year's ad features a cartoon bear and hare, but the underlying structure is the same: the hare sets out to bring back an alarm clock for the bear so he can wake up and see Christmas.

Simplicity
Simple stories are strong stories. Take out everything that doesn't serve the narrative.

All the strength is in simplicity. All the weakness is in complexity.
Dave Trott

Commercial storytelling isn't like factual reporting. You don't want to dump a load of stuff on the reader and let them draw their own conclusions from it. Instead, you should describe a narrative arc from A to B from which readers will extrapolate a path to conclusion C. To do that, you have to preserve the purity of the main storyline.

Observing the three Classical unities is a good way to do this. Originally proposed by Aristotle as rules for dramatists, they apply equally well to any story. They are the unity of action, the unity of place and the unity of time.

The unity of action says that there should be one main strand to the narrative, with no or very few subplots. The unity of place says that the action should take place in a single location. Finally, the unity of time says that the timespan of the story should not be longer than 24 hours.

Many Renaissance playwrights observed the three unities slavishly. Modern films that stick to them include Die Hard and, at the extreme, Phone Booth, which is a continuous, almost real-time narrative centred on a single street. But we also have films like Pulp Fiction, which goes out of its way to mess with all three unities and throws in a discontinuous timeline for good measure - and still tells plenty of cracking stories.

With that in mind, you might not want to bend your story out of shape by imposing such strict rules on it. If it's factual, you might not be able to. But even if you don't obey them to the letter, the three unities can still help you identify what is essential, and what is optional.

For example, to preserve unity of action, you might want to leave out less important events, combine two minor characters into one or efface the fine distinctions between certain products. If your story is centred on one particular location, you could take out or minimise mentions of other places. To preserve the unity of time, you might want to restrict your narrative to a particularly eventful period and use the pluperfect tense to pull in important earlier events as 'flashbacks'.

If it holds up or diverts the narrative, think about getting rid of it. I find that 'if in doubt, take it out' is a pretty good rule of thumb. For reassurance, you can always save an earlier version to go back to. (You won't.)

Let's go back to the example of case studies. They often work well with a Monomyth structure. The story starts with the problem to be solved (departure), develops with the approach taken by the service provider (initiation) and concludes with the benefits delivered (return). Sticking to the Monomyth pattern gives the narrative a pleasingly simple structure.

However, there is always the temptation to cram in all the 'extra mile' things that were delivered along the way. This impulse must be resisted, or the story will not have the unity of action. If the deep structure of the narrative is hidden, a story loses the power of simplicity.

Immersion
The more readers put themselves into a story, the more likely they are to change their opinions.
Researchers into persuasion believe that we process messages in one of three ways: centrally, peripherally or through immersion.

When we process a message centrally, we deeply engage with it and carefully evaluate its claims, and may make a lasting change in our beliefs or opinions as a result.

However, we only do that when we have a personal stake in the message. Otherwise, we'll process it peripherally, which means we deal with it in a much more casual way, basing our judgement on the appeal of the speaker or even our own mood at the time. Any change in attitude following peripheral processing is shallow and fleeting.

None of this is news to marketers, because it links directly to the importance of benefits. Messages about relevant benefits are processed centrally, since they speak to our self-interest. Less relevant messages vying for our attention are processed peripherally.

However, recent research suggests that we process stories by a third route, called immersion or transportation. When this happens, we put ourselves into the story, experiencing its events and emotions as if we were the main character. And this can lead to changes of opinion that last and even strengthen over time - even when we don't care that much about the issue at hand.

Researchers have also found that the more we immerse themselves in a story, the more likely we are to report beliefs that are consistent with it. Once we suspend our disbelief, we're less sensitive to 'false notes', or statements that don't ring true within a story. We're also less likely to raise objections to its core message.

So science does actually confirm marketers' big claims on behalf of storytelling. As long as they're good enough to achieve immersion, stories can change our behaviour profoundly and permanently, even when they deal with something we previously cared nothing about. The implication is clear: once you've got someone listening to your story, you're halfway towards gaining a customer.

But how do you achieve immersion? The question takes us away from science and towards art. Stories enchant us with a mix of melody, rhythm, spectacle, mystery and surprise. Stories are magical; we can't always take them apart to see how they work.

Immersion goes hand in hand with drama, simplicity and familiarity. When we immerse ourselves in a story, it's not usually because we're tangled up in its details. It's because we're drawn to something elemental and timeless.

Here's the start of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, one of the finest openings to a story I've ever read.

The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.

How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows.

Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness.

Using only the simplest strokes and a hypnotic, incantatory rhythm, Hughes instantly conjures deep mystery and foreboding, making us want to step right off the cliff along with the Iron Man.

We can't all be poets laureate, but such magic can certainly be worked in the commercial world. Witness the spellbinding Guinness Surfer - an enigmatic 90-second take on the Monomyth that also begins with an impassive figure staring out to sea.

Relatability
The more people identify with a story, the more likely they are to be persuaded.
If you want readers to immerse themselves in your story, make it as relatable as you can. The more people identify with the main character of a story, the more likely they are to feel 'transported' by the narrative and buy into its message.

Relatability isn't the same as plausibility. We can feel for a character if we haven't lived through the events in their story, or even if those events are completely unrealistic. Think of Alice in Wonderland or Lord of the Rings.

Relatability has its roots in in drama, immersion and simplicity rather than believability or accuracy. Otherwise, we'd be crying in front of the evening news instead of Titanic. As Mark Twain said, 'Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.'

The classic Yellow Pages ads of the 1980s are a great example of relatable storytelling.

The double whammy of brilliant copy and 'emotional' music effortlessly enlists our empathy and we buy in within seconds, happily jettisoning our reservations about plausibility. The feeling of warmth is so expansive that the link to the brand feels generous and necessary rather than crass and gratuitous.

Incidentally, this is another Monomyth narrative, which is why its resolution is so satisfying. The twist on the formula is that the 'prize' is something that the hero himself has lost, and must regain.

Agency
Stories are most persuasive when readers work out their meaning for themselves.
Researchers have found that stories aren't persuasive if the 'moral' is made too explicit. In other words, even though a story may follow an utterly familiar format, we still want to unpack its meaning for ourselves.

This parallels the well-known advertising principle of ' show, don't tell '. When you use stories to persuade, it's better to leave a few gaps and let the audience join the dots. This draws them in, makes them feel clever, and reinforces their positive feelings about the story and your brand.

For example, see how Subaru's 'Baby Driver' ad leaves the viewer to infer the benefits of safety and reliability for themselves (thanks to Coreen Tossona for blogging about this ad).

Agency is linked to immersion and simplicity. Inviting the audience to get involved in the creation of meaning helps them get into your story. But their attention is always limited, so if you want them to arrive at a particular answer, it's best to make the question as simple as you can.

There are also parallels with familiarity and relatability. The more familiar the story structure is, the easier it is for the audience to add in the missing pieces. And if it's a story they can relate to from their own lives (like the Subaru ad above), their emotions will confirm their intuition.

Trust in the teller
Our feelings about a storyteller influence our reaction to their story.
Stories always have storytellers. We might be hearing them at bedtime, reading them in a novel or watching them in an advert, but we always have a sense of who is 'telling' us the story, whether it's a parent, an author or a brand. And our reaction to their story will be coloured by our feelings about them.

This means that brands' efforts at storytelling are rooted in their existing brand equity, not to mention their historical media spend. When a brand tells a story, our buy-in is affected by how much we already trust that brand. And that may be the result of past marketing activities that have nothing to do with storytelling.

So while a challenger brand might be able to craft a wonderfully familiar, immersive and relatable story, its power might still be limited because the brand simply hasn't had time to earn our trust as a storyteller. Similarly, if a brand has done something to erode trust - like BP did at Deepwater, or Gerald Ratner did with his famous speech - even the most skilful storytelling will not restore it.

It's interesting to consider trust in relation to the growing popularity of storytelling as a technique. Right now, John Lewis can successfully differentiate their brand with an ad that is pure story. But as more and more brands jump on the bandwagon, we may begin to ration our emotional investment in their stories, having had the sleeve of our empathy tugged once too often.

Trust in the teller is crucial in politics. In the run-up to the Iraq War, Tony Blair spun a 'Saint George and the Dragon' tale of faraway evil that had to be defeated. He got his way, but when his story unravelled, trust in him evaporated.

Across the Atlantic, Republicans were very successful in characterising Democrats as snobby, elitist East Coast intellectuals. Once this idea took hold, people saw the stories Democrats told as cynical and manipulative, even when they were rooted in fact. This fatally undermined the appeal of Al Gore and John Kerry, among others, until Barack Obama turned over a new leaf.

When they want to appeal to voters, Conservatives tell comforting narratives of preservation or restoration that conform to archetypes like the Monomyth and are essentially backward-looking. But progressive storytellers want to tell new stories, with different heroes (or heroines), different quests and different endings. The problem is that stories that lead to an alternative future are inevitably unfamiliar, so they inspire distrust.

Perhaps the best approach is to begin with the familiar, build immersion, relatability and trust, then tweak the reader's agency to make a new and unexpected point. The ad below does this brilliantly.

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12 Women Scientists Changing The World - Sheila Ochugboju Is One Of Them!

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  The photo above was taken by Bret Hartman at the TED Fellows Retreat in California in August 2015. The 12 women are scientists and they represent a wide range of disciplines — from astrophysics, biology,

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Defining a Problem: Crash Course Kids #18.1

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Clubs are encouraged to share reflections and artifacts from these mini challenges via Flipgrid

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Girls Who Game North America Spring 2021

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Flipgrid is where social and emotional learning happens! The leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families.

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11 hour course

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Educator Center Overview - Microsoft Learn Educator Center

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Microsoft Learn for Educators takes the best of Microsoft Learn online learning paths and helps you to bring instructor-led training materials from Microsoft into your courses. This program provides members with access to Microsoft ready-to-teach curriculum and teaching materials aligned to industry-recognized Microsoft Certifications.

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Creative Technologsist

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This article will cover:

Moving around Minecraft

W - Move forward

A - Strafe left

S - Move backward

D - Strafe right

CONTROL - Sprint
SPACE

Jump by pressing space bar when walking.

Hop to the block in front of you up by pressing space bar and W at the same time.
Hint: This is great for moving up staircases.

When swimming, space bar will bring you to the surface.
Hint: When playing in Survival mode, you can't hold your breath under water forever! Use the space bar to catch a breath.

Fly in Creative mode by pressing space bar twice
Use these tips when trying to get somewhere quickly:

Press space bar once more and you'll levitate upwards.

Press space bar twice again to drop back to the ground.

SHIFT

When on the ground, press shift to crouch down and sneak.

When in the air (Creative mode), press shift to fly downwards.

Mouse controls

1 - Attack/Destroy

2 - Pick block. In Creative mode, "2" will place a copy of the target block in your Hotbar.

3 - Use item/place block

Other useful buttons

ESC - Returns you to the menu and then back to the game.

Q - Drops the item you are carrying.

E - Opens and closes your inventory. In creative mode, you can view all the building blocks at your disposal this way.

C - Opens Code Builder.

T - Opens the chat window. Press RETURN to send message.

/ - Opens the chat window with a / already typed. This is handy to quickly enter commands.

1-9 - Selects the appropriate slot in the Hotbar.

F1 - Toggles the interface visibility. This is handy when you want to take a screenshot.

F5 - Changes your player perspective. Toggle to select from the following: First Person → Third Person Rear → Third Person → back to First Person

Changing settings

If these keyboard settings are non-intuitive, you can change them. You can also see how to move around with a controller, a touch interface, or modify any or all of these settings:

Press ESC to return to the menu.

Select Settings

Scroll down to Controls and click on the desired interface.

Modify as needed - if you make a mistake or want to go back, you can find the reset button to change everything back at the bottom of the list.

No need to save, the settings are updated automatically. Find out what works best for you!

Additional resources
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Create an NPC that assumes the identity of the approach to which you aspire above.   Use chalkboards and posters to post common conflicts you encounter with friends, at school, etc.  What kinds of things will your NPC do in this world to navigate the posted conflict?  Share out what you come up with to the whole group.

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Learn to Play: Programming Non-Player Characters (NPCs)

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

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Dale Carnegie is the author of How To Win Friends and Influence People, one of the bestselling self-help books of all time.

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The Ultimate Harry Potter Quiz: Find Out Which House You Truly Belong In

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Find out which Harry Potter House you truly belong in, with a quiz that combines Sorting Hat magic with questions from social scientists

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Multiplayer is one of the most popular and effective ways to leverage Minecraft in the classroom. It's a great way to encourage collaboration, communication and problem solving as students work together on projects in a shared Minecraft world.

About

Minecraft: Education Edition features multiplayer games that connect using picture based join codes. All players in the same Office 365 tenant can host and join worlds together in the classroom. For most users, this means the part of your email address after the @ symbol matches that of the other players. A single multiplayer game can host a maximum of 40 players, and can connect players across all supported platforms. Server-style multiplayer or a dedicated server is not possible at this time.

Although the Multiplayer experience was designed and optimized for classroom use where all players are on the same network, Multiplayer across different internet connections is possible by making some changes to your home network configuration. Visit the How to Set Up a Multiplayer Game from Home Guide to understand how to host a game that players on other networks will be able to join.

Our support team is limited in our ability to troubleshoot unique network issues, but we are always happy to try to help.

Requirements

Here are the requirements for the best possible multiplayer experience:

Multiplayer is possible for players within the same Office 365 tenant.

Players should have the most up-to-date version of Minecraft: Education Edition

All players need to be running the same version of Minecraft: Education Edition to be able to host and join worlds together.

Server-style multiplayer is not possible and a sever license is not available.

If you have trouble connecting to a Multiplayer world, check out the Troubleshooting section of this article for tips on how to resolve common issues.

How to Host a World

Click Play on the home screen

Host an existing world

Choose an existing world to host from the View My Worlds collection. You can also import and launch a new world from the Library Collection. Follow the instructions in the How to host a world in-progress section to host a world that you open from the Library Collection.

Click on a world in your My Worlds collection and then click Host.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

Create a new world to host

On the Play screen, click Create New and then click New.

Select the options you would like applied to your new world, and then click Host.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

How to host a game in-progress

Pause the game and from the Friends tab click Start Hosting then click Confirm.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

How to join a world

Click Play on the Home screen and then click Join World.

Enter the Join Code for the world you want to join by clicking on each picture in order.

Configure settings for your multiplayer game

World Settings

Pause the game, and then click Settings on the World Settings tab.

Select the default permissions you would like players to have when they join your world: Visitor, Member or Operator. Note that any Instructor who joins a world will always have Operator permissions. You can also configure other World settings from this screen.

Player Permissions

Hosts and teachers are able to edit the permission levels and remove other players from the world

Host Settings

Pause your game and click the Friends tab. Take note of the four pictures in your Join Code and share them with players that you want invite into your world.

Restricting access to your world

At some point you may want to limit other players from joining your world. This can be done in a few ways:

Change the Join Code by pausing the game and selecting the refresh symbol next to the Join Code. Players in the world will not have to re-enter their Join Code, however any new players must use the new Join Code.

Use the command /setmaxplayers to limit the amount of people in your world

A teacher or host of a world will always be able to edit their own permissions as well as permissions for other players in the world.

Server Hosting

When using Minecraft: Education Edition, the host must be playing the game in order for others to join. If the hosting player leaves the world, all other players will be removed from the world. This is a different model from Java and Bedrock hosted servers, where you can create always-on multiplayer worlds using custom servers.

Can I setup a dedicated server for multiplayer in Minecraft: Education Edition?

Minecraft: Education is not currently compatible with server software, so it's not possible to set up an always-on world that players can visit anytime. This is a popular piece of feedback and we hope to have a solution in the future.

Can I use my Minecraft: Education Edition licenses to access a Minecraft Bedrock or Java server?

Since each of these Minecraft editions use distinct licensing systems, it's not possible to login to a different edition with Minecraft: Education Edition licenses.

Troubleshooting

Performance Issues

If you are able to connect to a multiplayer game but start to see decreased performance as more players join your game, try the following to improve your experience:

It is recommended that the host computer has at least 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth.

Examine your network speed and ensure the amount of players is not overloading your network.

Turn down the render speed to 4 chunks and turn off fancy graphics in the Video area of the World Settings screen.

For more information on how to best utilize multiplayer with 30 or more students you can connect with other teachers in our community forums.

Connection Issues

Close out of the game and restart the application. Have joining/hosting a world be the first thing you do after launch and login. Once users have played their own world they must restart to join a multiplayer world

Try joining the world manually with the IP address. Directions can be found in How to set up a Multiplayer game at home

Try a new world. NOT one that has been previously saved

Your network needs to allow communications with https://meeservices.azurewebsites.net/ (the URL needs to be "white listed" by any systems in your network that block access to the internet such as router settings, anti-virus or your firewall software)

If you are on iPad:

On your iOS device's home screen (iOS 14 or later), tap Settings.

Tap Privacy. Local network. You'll find a list of apps.

Turn on local network access for the app(s) that you would like to allow network access.

Often times an antivirus software or your firewall can block multiplayer connection. This external article can provide guidance on ensuring your antivirus or firewall is not blocking the multiplayer connection: https://jackboxgames.happyfox.com/kb/article/28-how-to-whitelist-and-resolve-issues-in-antivirus-software-and-firewalls/

If players are not using the same version of Minecraft: Education edition they will see the error "Could not connect. Outdated server". Use our download page to update to the latest version.

If the host computer disconnects (even temporarily) everyone on the world will lose connection. The host will need to re-start the hosting session and all players will need to re-connect with the new join code.

Try connecting your modem directly to your computer using a network cable.

Try turning off other apps on your machine.

Try removing and re-installing Minecraft: Education Edition.

Make sure that port 19132 is not blocked in your network configuration.

You also may need to forward port 19132 on your router. Forwarding ports is useful because it can help to make your network connection more stable and sometimes even faster.

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Multiplayer is one of the most popular and effective ways to leverage Minecraft in the classroom. It's a great way to encourage collaboration, communication and problem solving as students work together on projects in a shared Minecraft world. Minecraft: Education Edition features multiplayer games that connect using picture based join codes.

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Try it!

If you're using Microsoft Teams, organize your tasks by adding one or more Planner tabs to a team channel. You can then work on your plan from within Teams or in Planner for web, remove or delete your plan, and get notified in Teams when a task is assigned to you in Planner.

1. In a channel, select +.

2. Select Planner.

3. Create a plan and then select Save.

4. Create buckets.

5. Add and assign tasks.

Select + to create a task and enter a name.

Select Set due date and select a date.

Select Assign and choose who to assign it to.

Select Add Task.

6. Add a Description and Checklist.

Select the task, enter a Description, and select Show on card.

Under Checklist, select Add an item, and type the item.

Click anywhere outside the task to close it.

7. Update a task.

8. Group tasks.

Select Group by Bucket, and then select an option from the drop-down.

Select Progress to drag tasks from Not started to In progress, or from In progress to Completed.

9. Chart progress.

Want more?

Create a plan in Microsoft Planner

Use Planner in Microsoft Teams

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Training: If you're using Microsoft Teams, organize your tasks by adding one or more Planner tabs to a team channel. You can then work on your plan from within Teams or in Planner for web, remove or delete your plan, and get notified in Teams when a task is assigned to you in Planner.

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Education Activist

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And in March, she became the youngest-ever nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Malala Yousafzai's call to educate girls began in 2009 in what once had been Pakistan's vacation paradise, the Swat Valley. Just 11, she began writing a blog for BBC Urdu about life under the ultra-conservative Taliban, who had taken over Swat.

Encouraged by her father, a girls' school owner and activist himself, she raised her voice against the Taliban's brutality and its ban on girls' education. With the release of a New York Times documentary that year, she became a media celebrity in Pakistan and beyond, but her work drew the ire of those who opposed her message.

And a year ago this week, as the 15-year-old was riding home in a school bus with her friends, a Taliban gunman boarded the bus and shot her in the head. The injuries were life-threatening. She was unconscious for days. But once flown to the U.K. for surgery and rehabilitation, she made a remarkable recovery.

Boys and girls from Pakistan and around the world rallied to her side and her cause, proclaiming, "I am Malala." She now goes to school in the U.K., where she lives with her family. But the awards kept coming and the demands to speak.

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Malala hopes to earn prize of seeing 'every child' go to school

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And in March, she became the youngest-ever nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala Yousafzai's call to educate girls began in 2009 in what once had been Pakistan's vacation paradise, the Swat Valley. Just 11, she began writing a blog for BBC Urdu about life under the ultra-conservative Taliban, who had taken over Swat.

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Rocket Scientist

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By Shruti Kumar - It's almost as if the stars aligned to bring Caeley Looney into the world of aerospace engineering. Caeley was born to two engineers?-?her mother was a naval engineer and her father worked at a defense contractor. She knew it was only a matter of time before her love for STEM pulled her towards engineering, too.

"I went through elementary school wanting to be a wide variety of things, from a fashion designer to a teacher, but the thought of being an engineer never crossed my mind until I was exposed to robotics."

When Caeley was in middle school, her parents saw an ad for the local Girl Scouts FIRST robotics program and encouraged her to join. After getting a taste of STEM on this all-girls robotics team, she quickly began exploring different fields. During her first two years at Farmingdale High School in Long Island, New York, Caeley conducted research projects for her science course. When she realized that she enjoyed researching the Mars Rover, Caeley explored her newfound interest in space-related work through similar projects. These high school projects honed Caeley's interest in STEM to aerospace engineering.

In 2014, Caeley enrolled in an aerospace engineering program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. During the summers before college and after her freshman year, she volunteered at We Connect The Dots, a nonprofit organization that offers STEM-related programs to underprivileged students. Then the summer before her junior year, Caeley had a computer science internship with the Institute for Defense Analyses, where she she got her first look into the defense industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Caeley went on to complete an internship with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during her last semester of senior year, where she had the opportunity to focus on aerospace engineering and some computer science.

Caeley is a member of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), a community of more than 1,100 universities, companies, nonprofits and government organizations nationwide working to increase girls' and women's meaningful participation in computing. After receiving the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award in 2014, she was invited to join the NCWIT Facebook community, a support system of thousands of girls in tech.

"Any time I have an issue or concern, I just go and make a post on our Facebook page," she says. "Within five minutes, I have ten different girls giving me advice and telling me not to give up!"

While attending the Grace Hopper Celebration in 2017, Caeley was interviewed and recruited as a mission analyst by Harris Corporation, a defense contractor and information technology services provider. She started working at Harris after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in May 2018.

At Harris, Caeley supports several key elements of satellite analysis. She simulates the orbital mechanics and dynamics of their small satellites system and her responsibilities include plotting different orbits, defining station keeping boundaries and optimizing spacecraft subsystems. Caeley says she is lucky to learn about a variety of systems rather than diving specifically into one topic.

"I always get to learn about different systems. I get to learn about things like balancing a power budget, sizing solar panels and developing a communications link budget. It's great because I never get bored!"

"Any time I have run into a challenging situation, I have forced myself to step back and remember why I am in that situation: to become an aerospace engineer," she says. "It has definitely been difficult to remember that while I'm in the midst of a tough problem but that has always been what gets me through. Well, that and ice cream!"

Caeley also battles the stigma against mental illness with the support of her service dog, Charlie. With her special furry friend by her side, Caeley says he is one of the biggest reasons she was able to make it to where she is.

"Mental illness is something that I struggled with for a greater part of my life and once I got to college, many of the symptoms worsened," Caeley says. "My service dog has helped me realize that my disability shouldn't hold me back from achieving my dreams and literally reaching for the stars. He reinforces my self confidence every time I begin to doubt it."

Her advice for others?-?don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. Caeley says that her incredible support system and a list of things that make her smile are what get her through the tough times.

"It made it a lot harder to give it up knowing that I've worked since the sixth grade towards this [goal]. Don't give up," she says. "This world needs women in computer science, aerospace, etc. Without us, progress isn't made, so remember that."

About the contributor: Shruti Kumar is a Wogrammer Journalism Fellow. Wogrammer is on a mission to break stereotypes and inspire women and girls to pursue careers in STEM by showcasing real women, telling their stories, and celebrating their accomplishments. Follow @Wogrammer on your favorite social media platform.
This article was told in partnership with NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) and first appeared on ; republished on Women You Should Know with express permission.

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Girl Scout To Galaxy Explorer: How Caeley Looney Discovered Her Path To Aerospace Engineering In Middle School

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By Shruti Kumar - It's almost as if the stars aligned to bring Caeley Looney into the world of aerospace engineering. Caeley was born to two engineers?-?her mother was a naval engineer and her father worked at a defense contractor. She knew it was only a matter of time before her love for STEM pulled her towards engineering, too.

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The phrase "video narrative" can be intimidating. The idea of putting together the perfect script can be anxiety-inducing (where do you even begin?!) But when it comes to corporate video, creating the perfect narrative doesn't mean producing a full-length mega-drama. In fact - the recipe for a successful video project is much, much simpler.

Making a great video with a compelling story doesn't have to be complicated. It doesn't matter what your video is trying to market; or if you use animated video, whiteboard, motion graphics, or live-action, the audience is always the same - your prospects and customers. To help you demystify video production, we're going to outline the Four Elements of a Great Video Narrative and show you how you can include a few into just about any corporate or explainer video.

Back To The Basics: The Foundations Of A Great Video Narrative

According to Nigel Watts, author of Writing A Novel and Getting Published , classic storytelling is defined by eight essential points of narrative:

All eight of these narrative points are great for your next novel, but videos and content marketing only have seconds to hook viewers and tell your story. An animated explainer video just doesn't have the time to meander. So, I've boiled the eight elements of a great narrative down to four essential video narrative staples:

Now that we've boiled it down to the basics, let's dive into what each of these mean for your video.

Part One: Who is your hero?

Every tale has a hero, whether it's an Oscar-worthy short, or a product explainer video . The hero in most animated explainer videos is the product or consumer, and they should be easy to identify.

Carefully create your hero early on, because your hero will define your audience and the problems they face. Focus on making characters that are relatable and engaging, and try to make it as easy as possible for your audience to connect by adding obvious character traits they can relate to (your buyer persona research will come in handy here!)

Animation allows for more flexibility to create characters that appeal to wider audiences , or bring what otherwise would be inanimate object to life. Different styles of animation , like 2D, stop motion, or whiteboard animation, can also evoke brand recognition, and connect your video to your larger brand story for a fuller experience.
Related: Expert Tips For Infusing Brand Into Your Video
Part Two: Conflict: Defining the pain point

Focusing on the conflict is one of the most effective ways to reach your target market with a video. When you build the video narrative around the pain points your customers face, you create an incentive for them to watch closely (aka they don't want "x" to happen to them).

What is conflict in a video narrative?

The conflict in a traditional video narrative is the introduction of an obstacle to your audience's happiness, productivity or effectiveness. Conflict can be a great opportunity for you to insert yourself into a potential customer's decision-making process.

According to SiriusDecisions' Buying Interactions Mode l, "The highest level of buyer/seller interaction for all buying scenarios occurs during the education phase of the buyer's journey." If you provide a solution during this process, you're well positioned for conversions.

Introducing conflict into your video narrative

Remember that time is of the essence . Whatever your conflict, define it early and accurately. However, keep in mind that you don't want to beat viewers over the head and be too obvious either. Define the situation then move onto how you can fix it. The conflict is the hook in your sales pitch- don't forget to reel them in .

Take this video from Scandis, a direct-to-consumer furniture company, for example. In this animated explainer video, Scandis introduces the problem within the first ten seconds of the video by asking viewers "What does your furniture-buying dollar pay for?"

This question clearly defines expectations for what the audience should expect from the rest of the video. The problem Scandis chose here is also very buyer-stage focused. It challenges audiences to consider where exactly the money they're spending is going - something you may not always think about when considering what couch is a good fit for your living room.

Part 3: Quest - Setting expectations

So you've done a great job introducing the conflict, but the real reason people watch your video is for the quest, or how your hero overcomes the problem at hand. This is where you get to make your product or service shine. Go all out on the quest - it's the most fun part of the whole video narrative process, and if you do it right, people will remember, share, and talk about you.

Users need your product, and they need to know why they need it. Explain the problem (pain point) and the path to solving it in a compelling, logical way. This is the meat of the video narrative, and needs to be executed well to reach the final stage.

Let's go back to the Scandis example. In the beginning of the video, they dare consumers to question whether or not they're getting the most out of their money when investing in furniture. Scandis then goes on to explain common problems with traditional business models, how their business model is different from other companies, and how consumers can benefit (and ultimately save) from shopping with their brand. It's game, set, and match when it comes to a compelling video narrative. Which brings us to the final piece of the puzzle:

Part Four: Resolution (and your CTA)
Related: Your Ultimate Explainer Video CTA Guide We're here to make sure you look like a hero. Let us tell your story with an animated explainer video.
You've introduced the video's hero, they've faced the conflict, endured the quest, and have arrived at the resolution. But what action to do want your consumer to take after they've seen your video? Depending on your objective, the resolution can be a continuation of the conversation, or merely awareness of the problem. It all depends on your path to conversion and your CTA.

Animated videos are exceptionally effective narrative devices because they use simple visual cues to involve the audience in the story. Take your video to a happy conclusion that solves everything because that's what a story is -a journey. A hero faces a problem, sets out to solve it, and comes home a victor. It's a tale as old as time - you just have to fill in the spaces with your message. Construct a compelling narrative and your audience will be more receptive to your story and your product.

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The phrase "video narrative" can be intimidating. The idea of putting together the perfect script can be anxiety-inducing (where do you even begin?!) But when it comes to corporate video, creating the perfect narrative doesn't mean producing a full-length mega-drama. In fact - the recipe for a successful video project is much, much simpler.

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Defining Success: Crash Course Kids #18.2

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WHAT IS THE DESIGN PROCESS? WHY IS IT HELPFUL?

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Tech Entrepreneur

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Tamar Huggins is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, author, and tech education trailblazer whose impact is featured exclusively on Blavity, BET, Black Enterprise, CBC, CP24, The Toronto Star, National Post, Globe and Mail, and Canadian Living to name a few.

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Minecraft: Education Edition Break and Place Tutorial

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A list of active listening skills - a combination of skills and abilities that allow you to fully concentrate on what your partner say.

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Scientist & Researcher, Water Solutions

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In the 2006 movie , average folks Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph participate in an experiment and wake up 500 years later. The world has turned...dumb. They all drink and use something called Brawndo-a mix between Gatorade and an energy drink-even to their crops, which, by the way, are dying. Sometimes the simplest things are actually exactly what you need. When Luke and Maya suggest they use water instead, they respond with "like, out of the toilet?" We're inundated with specialty features and thousands of different brands offering slightly different things. That's cool but sometimes, well, sometimes you just need what's been used all along.

WOMEN IN NUMBERS: 783 million

It's no secret that water is a luxury we often take for granted. It's estimated that 783 million people don't have access to water that's safe and clean. Fresh water is crucial to human survival, including in a bigger, grander way, like manufacturing and electricity production. Water is a big component of cause-effect in this world-if there's no water to grow plant life, an animal who survives on it doesn't survive, and the animal who survives on that animal doesn't survive, and on and on. And no, Brawndo isn't the solution.

WOMAN TO WATCH: Dr. Lam Sze Mun
Dr. Lam Sze Mun has made serious waves in Malaysia. She's the first in her family to earn a PhD and currently works as an assistant professor at University Tunku Abdul Rahman. She's a researcher with a team that works on turning greywater-the stuff that isn't sewage but isn't drinkable-into applications like electricity and irrigation.

Lam and her team have made significant strides toward using greywater for good. She says that 400ml of the stuff can generate power up to 10,000 mAh power bank. Essentially, the amount of greywater in a can of soda can be used to power a new iPhone Plus two or three times.

Earlier this year, Lam earned a gold medal for a competition called iCompEx, which celebrates new, innovative projects. She's also highly published in her field and acts as an ongoing reviewer in academic publications. Lam knows that research is just research until you put it out there, let other scientists expand on it and hopefully, impact society for the better.

In 2018, Lam was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science grant. It's an honor, of course, but also means she is receiving funding to pursue her significant work. Being a female scientist in Malaysia has given Lam a unique perspective. She urges women to not give up on their dreams or goals. She insists that the key to success or fulfilling what's on your lifelong agenda is collaboration, from help from colleagues to support from family.

Poet Rudy Francisco said:

"My highest ambition is to crawl out from under the ash and laugh at all the things that thought they could bury me."

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Dr. Lam Sze Mun: Are We Running out of Water?

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Nuclear Engineer

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Mareena Robinson Snowden made headlines in 2017 when she became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, she's worked to pave a pathway for more women and minorities to follow in her footsteps.

"I think it's tremendously important to have this diversity of voices, not just from a cultural perspective or from a gender perspective, but just lived experience," Snowden told Know Your Value. "...There is blood and treasure on the line with respect with the decisions that [nuclear engineers] make, and we're actually sending people out to fight wars if things go wrong."

Snowden, 32, lives in Washington, D.C. and works as a senior engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in neighboring Maryland. Just eight months into the job, and now with a 7-month-old daughter, she's settling into the first workplace she can call home after two year-long fellowships at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and National Nuclear Security Administration. Prior to that, she spent 11 years in school: five as a physics major at Florida A&M University, then six years in grad school at MIT, where she wrote her dissertation on the development of radiation detectors for future nuclear arms control treaties.

"I spend a lot of time thinking about nuclear weapons policy issues and technology," Snowden said. "[And now] I'm broadening my umbrella [to] security in general [and] military force posture issues, [like], how should the military respond to certain types of challenges."

Women and girls are chronically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields of work and study. Looking back on her own journey, Snowden is clear-eyed about how they get left behind.

"In the gym, we're all very comfortable with the idea of struggle and progress in a physical sense: lifting weights, that kind of thing, like what LeBron James or Serena Williams have to do every day on the court," Snowden said. "But then when we start talking about the mind, building the muscle of the mind, we forget the critical role that struggle plays. We frame it in the wrong way, and we say that struggle is a character flaw as opposed to the natural process of learning."

Snowden, who grew up in Miami, actually began to struggle academically around third grade when math lessons started getting more complex. Time tables had been easy for her to memorize, but long division made her nervous. "I didn't really understand how learning worked," Snowden said. "I often say, 'We don't teach kids how to learn before we teach them the actual material.' And if you miss that part of the lesson, you can go through life as I did, really having an adversarial relationship with learning."

At the same time, Snowden said young women come up against a lot of pressures young men don't face during their crucial pre-teen years, when they're beginning to see their potential for careers in math and science.

"You're starting to come into your young womanhood and all of these narratives around femininity and what it means to be a woman are all starting to land on you and... they don't always coincide with being technically excellent, being a nerd, or being interested in the stars and things like that," Snowden said.

"So you feel the pressures of trying to be liked and trying to be part of a community [versus] what your natural inclinations are, which might be toward science or math. And that tension can be really difficult for some women ... The desire to be part of a community wins out over what may be their natural aptitude for these types of careers."
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Snowden said major gains have been made toward getting a more diverse group of students into places like MIT, including a focus on educational investments and mentorship on the front end of the pipeline. But she thinks a crucial aspect needs more attention.

"Once they're there, what culture are they encountering? Is it one that's there to help them succeed and to foster excellence, or is it one where they feel undervalued and constantly having to prove themselves and [are] stereotyped?" Snowden asked. "It's that second piece of the conversation where organizations have to be introspective and they have to say, 'OK, what are we doing to negatively contribute to this outcome? And that's a hard conversation because the first part of the conversation, where you're focused externally, it's not about you."

Snowden credited the foundation she received at Florida A&M University as what eventually led her to MIT. On a college visit to Florida A&M, her dad suggested they stop by the physics department and he introduced her to the department head. That person took an interest in her and together, they toured labs, met the graduate students, went out to eat and swung by the scholarship office.

"Dad said the department head told him, 'We want you, we believe in you, we feel like you can do this.' And I'm thinking, you don't really know anything about me," Snowden remembered. "Really it was the belief that Florida A&M professors have that we will do our part to invest in you, all you have to do [is] just come with the enthusiasm and the willingness to work hard and we will help you bridge whatever gaps you have."

Studying at FAMU, and at historically black colleges and universities more broadly, Snowden said, is invaluable because black students' heritage and identity is not only affirmed, but woven into the fabric of the university.

"[There's] something powerful as a young black woman to come into an institution and to have so many tangible peer role models," Snowden remembered. "You're a high school student and you see these senior women and they're so stylish and so poised... just like Michelle Obamas every day in the cafeteria that you're looking at."
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"The way that we feel about her is the way that I felt about the women in my school, the women that were only four years older than me," Snowden said. "They were such a model for what it meant to be a powerful self-possessed black woman."

Transitioning to MIT, despite having had two internships there before she formally started her graduate work, was "a culture shock." One interaction that particularly stung came when she was a newly admitted graduate student during "visit weekend" at MIT, when students meet with potential advisers.

"I came and I was very excited, and trying to do my best meeting with professors and setting up appointments and everything, and one of the professors I met with straight-up told me during the meeting that my undergraduate institution didn't prepare me to be there and I should expect to struggle," Snowden remembered." And he didn't know anything about my undergraduate institution other than it was an HBCU [historically black colleges and universities]."

Snowden took that as a direct challenge and let his words fuel her drive. On her graduation day six years later, that same professor - almost certainly having forgotten about their conversation and oblivious to its effect - was by chance the one selected to put the hood over graduates' necks as they received their degrees.

"I remember walking up to him on the stage and was just like, "Good morning, Dr. So-and-So!" Snowden recalled, laughing. "I was just very confident and I bent down and he put the hood around my neck and he shook my hand and he looked me in the eye and it was a very gratifying moment for me."

Snowden noted that there were far more people at MIT supporting her success as a student than were trying to block her. But figuring out how to navigate around roadblocks and persist in spite of them became a life lesson.

"There's a tax, always thinking about how you're different," Snowden said. "It's something I'm currently working on, like not always focusing on the fact that I'm the only woman or the only black person in the room, because that's not the root of my value. My value is from so many different places."

She knows firsthand how this "tax" affects women and minorities every day.

"Let's say for example you're giving a presentation," Snowden said. "As a black woman, and a lot of women face this, you're not only thinking about the substance of your presentation, but you're thinking about the inflection of your voice, you're thinking about, do you wear lipstick or not, you're thinking about what you wear, do you wear pants or a skirt. All these things have been put on you as signals of your credibility and signals that you're serious. And your counterparts are not doing those calculations. And that's taking away from the actual content of your work, for you to be thinking about that."

"It's a criticism of the environment, not of the woman, that we have to think like this," she said. "I think there's just another layer to it for black women... that intersectionality, that not-being-able-to-put-your-finger-on-it: Is this misogyny I'm dealing with, is this racism, is this a combination of the two? What's actually happening? It's hard to make sense of it. So my reaction has been to stop trying to make sense of it," Snowden said. "I'm here to do my work. I'm not here to understand your bias. That's been my approach."

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Mars One's Journey (2011 - 2021)

Humanity has explored Mars since 1960, and we've never been closer. The next logical step for Mars exploration is permanent settlement, where crews that go to Mars stay and build a new society. Humans settling on Mars will inspire us all to make Earth a better place. Technology, scientific understanding, cooperation - is there anything we cannot achieve?

Mars One was founded in 2011 with the goal of sending humans to Mars to stay. Instead of trying to return them, more crews would be sent every two years, establishing a permanent, ever-growing settlement on the Red Planet.

Permanent settlement missions place even higher demands on the crew than a return mission. A first permanent settlement crew would be on Mars for two years before the second crew joins them. They would be able to communicate with friends and family on Earth, but only with time delays. Crew selection, training and testing on Earth would be necessary to make sure they can deal with this. Besides that, they would need to learn all the skills to survive on Mars without support from Earth, other than information. They would need to be able to fix every technical and medical problem, grow food and expand the settlement with hardware for upcoming crews. Crew selection is the biggest challenge of a permanent settlement mission to Mars.

Mars One had a business plan for such a mission to Mars, which can be summarized as monetizing the media value of the adventure of humans going to Mars. The Olympic Games are worth more than $4 billion dollars in broadcasting rights and sponsorships. The 1969 Moon landing is still the TV program with the highest viewership density ever. Imagine the value of a mission to Mars in the current media era. Mars One raised funds by having investors invest in a Mars One media company that held the rights to the mission.

In 2011, Mars One met with aerospace companies around the world to discuss the plan, including SpaceX, Hamilton Sundstrand, ILC Dover, MDA corporation, Paragon Space Development Corporation and Thales Alenia Space. With their feedback, Mars One developed a plan that was feasible, affordable and that had an acceptable risk. In 2012, the plan was announced, later followed by a job vacancy for Mars settlers. More than 200,000 people registered their interest on the Mars One website. More than 10,000 potentials finished the job application process, and Mars One narrowed down the applicants, first to 1058 round 2 candidates and then to 100 round three candidates.

In 2013 and 2014, Mars One had feasibility studies performed by Lockheed Martin, for a first robotic mission and with Paragon Space Development Corporation, for Mars suits and life support systems.

In 2016 Mars One ran out of funds and was unable to continue the selection program and the technical studies. In the years after that, several attempts were made to raise additional funds, but they were unsuccessful.

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Dr. Ursula Franklin (b. September 16, 1921 - d. July 22, 2016) received her Ph.D. in experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin in 1948. She came to Canada the following year and began a distinguished scientific career in Toronto. In 1967 she joined the University of Toronto's Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, becoming a full professor in 1973. Dr. Franklin published more than 70 scholarly papers and major contributions to books on the structure and properties of metals and alloys, and the history and social impact of technology. Her contributions to CBC Radio's Ideas program included: Democracy, Technology, and Terrorism (1979), Nuclear Peace (1982), The Northern Front (1986), and Complexity and Management (1987). Ursula Franklin's 1989 Massey Lectures have been published in her book, The Real World of Technology. Dr. Franklin is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and was a board member of the National Research Council and the Science Council of Canada, where she headed the Conserver Society Study. She received honorary degrees from many Canadian universities. In 1984 Ursula Franklin became the first woman to be honoured with the title of "University Professor" by the University of Toronto. In addition to her significant contributions as a scientist, Dr. Franklin was and continues to be known for her achievements as a humanitarian through community activities. She received the Award of Merit for the City of Toronto in 1982, mainly for her contribution to neighbourhood planning. She provided technical advice to community groups on such issues as pollution and radiation. As a Quaker, Ursula was actively involved in work for peace and justice, international understanding, and issues related to women. As an active member of the Voice of Women, and a member of its national council, she was involved in many of the organization's activities, from coordinating the collection of children's teeth for strontium-90 radiation measurements in the early 1960s, to co- drafting submissions to the Senate inquiry into science policy. In 1987, Dr. Franklin was awarded the Elsi Gregory McGill Memorial Award for her contributions to education, science, and technology. In 1989, she received the Wiegand Award, which recognizes Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the human dimensions of science and technology. Ursula Franklin's 1990 award of the Order of Ontario followed her nomination by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, which read:

"Dr. Franklin has made significant contributions to the life of Ontario as a scientist, educator, citizen, and humanitarian. She has enriched the lives of her colleagues, students, and staff that have been privileged to work with her. Her concerns about the quality of all our lives, particularly as they are affected by science and technology, have always been accompanied by action on behalf of those beliefs to help solve problems. She serves as an inspiration to women in society, in the university in general, and especially in the scientific, technological, and engineering fields, where she has been a role model in an environment populated by very few female faculty members. Dr. Franklin is truly an example of someone who lives her convictions, who is not afraid to act on the basis of her beliefs, and whose presence among us helps to make this world a better place to live."

Ursula Franklin was awarded the Pearson Peace Medal in January 2002, by the United Nations Association in Canada. Upon receiving the Pearson Peace Medal Dr. Franklin included, as part of her acceptance speech:

"Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear, presence of justice".

In 2012 Dr. Franklin was inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, located in Ottawa and co-hosted by Ursula Franklin Academy in Toronto. In 2014 Ursula Franklin was recognized by Status of Women Canada ~ "Women Pioneers: Inspiring Change Through Ongoing Leadership".

Dr. Franklin's life, achievements and numerous contributions to our world were publicly honoured at a memorial held at Ursula Franklin Academy on September 29, 2016.

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Distillery District Magazine

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Dr. Priscilla K. Mante is a senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology, KNUST, Kumasi. She is a Researcher with expertise in Neuropharmacology and has several publications to her credit. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and B. Pharm from KNUST, Kumasi. She is a recipient of various research grants including the University of Michigan STEM Seed Grant, DANIDA/BSU and IBRO Grants. She is also a Fellow of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Programme, L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women In Science and the African Science Leadership Programme. She has received the 2019 International Rising Talent Award for her research on drug-resistant epilepsy and neurocysticercosis. Dr. Mante is an experienced Pharmacist and a founding member of the Ghana Neuroscience Society. She is the current Chair of the Ghana Young Academy. She is an advocate for women in STEM and mental health, and her career goal is to find a cure for epilepsy. Dr. Mante is also passionate about education and helping students maximize their opportunities

Check out her publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L6R8oF0AAAAJ&hl=en

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The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of .

These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.

These tutorials are intended for right after you have a roof over your head and a renewable food source. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. As such, you should consider reading them all.

Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established.

These tutorials rely on bugs to work and may be fixed at any time. Some servers may consider the use of these bugs as bannable.

These tutorials provide information on crop and mob farming.

These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.

These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Redstone (advanced)

These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.

These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.

Creating Minecraft media

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University of Rochester alumna Donna Strickland '89 (PhD), who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been appointed to the Order of Canada.

The award recognizes individuals who have made "extraordinary contributions to the nation." Strickland was appointed a Companion of the Order, the highest of three levels of the award. There can be no more than 165 living companions at any time.

The professor of physics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, is being recognized for her "contributions to optical physics and for her innovative developments in ultra-fast optical science."

"I feel so proud and privileged to be Canadian and I am thrilled to receive this recognition from my country," Strickland told CBC news. "It is an exceptional honor for me to be named a companion of the Order of Canada. This award means a great deal to me."

Strickland and Gérard Mourou, former engineering professor and scientist at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), were together recognized with the 2018 Nobel Prize for revolutionizing the field of high-intensity laser physics.

Mourou was Strickland's PhD advisor during the time they pioneered "chirped-pulse amplification." Known as CPA, this work was the basis of Strickland's PhD in optics dissertation.

Today, CPA has applications in corrective eye surgeries and other surgical procedures, data storage, and quantum computing.

Read more

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University of Rochester alumna Donna Strickland '89 (PhD), who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been appointed to the Order of Canada. The award recognizes individuals who have made "extraordinary contributions to the nation." Strickland was appointed a Companion of the Order, the highest of three levels of the award.

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Greta Thunberg Is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year

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Future Mars Settler

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Mars One's Journey (2011 - 2021)

Humanity has explored Mars since 1960, and we've never been closer. The next logical step for Mars exploration is permanent settlement, where crews that go to Mars stay and build a new society. Humans settling on Mars will inspire us all to make Earth a better place. Technology, scientific understanding, cooperation - is there anything we cannot achieve?

Mars One was founded in 2011 with the goal of sending humans to Mars to stay. Instead of trying to return them, more crews would be sent every two years, establishing a permanent, ever-growing settlement on the Red Planet.

Permanent settlement missions place even higher demands on the crew than a return mission. A first permanent settlement crew would be on Mars for two years before the second crew joins them. They would be able to communicate with friends and family on Earth, but only with time delays. Crew selection, training and testing on Earth would be necessary to make sure they can deal with this. Besides that, they would need to learn all the skills to survive on Mars without support from Earth, other than information. They would need to be able to fix every technical and medical problem, grow food and expand the settlement with hardware for upcoming crews. Crew selection is the biggest challenge of a permanent settlement mission to Mars.

Mars One had a business plan for such a mission to Mars, which can be summarized as monetizing the media value of the adventure of humans going to Mars. The Olympic Games are worth more than $4 billion dollars in broadcasting rights and sponsorships. The 1969 Moon landing is still the TV program with the highest viewership density ever. Imagine the value of a mission to Mars in the current media era. Mars One raised funds by having investors invest in a Mars One media company that held the rights to the mission.

In 2011, Mars One met with aerospace companies around the world to discuss the plan, including SpaceX, Hamilton Sundstrand, ILC Dover, MDA corporation, Paragon Space Development Corporation and Thales Alenia Space. With their feedback, Mars One developed a plan that was feasible, affordable and that had an acceptable risk. In 2012, the plan was announced, later followed by a job vacancy for Mars settlers. More than 200,000 people registered their interest on the Mars One website. More than 10,000 potentials finished the job application process, and Mars One narrowed down the applicants, first to 1058 round 2 candidates and then to 100 round three candidates.

In 2013 and 2014, Mars One had feasibility studies performed by Lockheed Martin, for a first robotic mission and with Paragon Space Development Corporation, for Mars suits and life support systems.

In 2016 Mars One ran out of funds and was unable to continue the selection program and the technical studies. In the years after that, several attempts were made to raise additional funds, but they were unsuccessful.

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Sasha Hostyn (born December 1993), also known by her username Scarlett, is a Canadian professional video game player. She is most well known for playing , and is the first woman to win a major StarCraft II tournament. She has also played .

Personal life

Hostyn grew up in Kingston, Ontario and played games as a hobby during school and began to enter tournaments in 2011, leading to her career as a professional player. Hostyn is a transgender woman, and has said that her gender identity has "absolutely no relevance" to how she plays and that she has "always tried to make it a complete non-issue".

Hostyn became prominent in the StarCraft II scene in 2012 when she beat a number of highly ranked professionals at an event in Las Vegas. In 2013, she climbed the global StarCraft II rankings to rank 21 and placed second at NorthCon. By mid-2014, Hostyn had taken first place in seven tournaments, making her the second highest-paid professional female gamer at the time. By 2014, Hostyn had won over $110,000.

During her time playing StarCraft II, Hostyn has been called "the queen of StarCraft II", "Korean Kryptonite", and "The Queen of Blades". The New Yorker called her "the most accomplished woman in e-sports". She was the only Red Bull Battle Grounds 2014 finalist from a country other than South Korea. In 2014, named her one of 2014's 50 admirable gaming people, describing her as "one of the few women succeeding at the top level of the StarCraft II pro scene".

Having lost some of her "competitive drive" for StarCraft II, Hostyn switched to playing in February 2015, explaining "If I can be good at both it'll be something nobody has really done before."

As of June 2015, Hostyn has returned to StarCraft II, joining the Dead Pixels team and will compete in Korean leagues.

On August 17, 2016, Scarlett joined Team Expert.

In February 2018, Scarlett won the Intel Extreme Masters tournament, held in the leadup to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, becoming the first woman to win a major StarCraft II tournament. Following this, in November 2018 Scarlett joined Newbee.

In February 2021, she joined the newly formed Shopify Rebellion.

Scarlett was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as "highest career earnings for a female competitive video game player" on October 5, 2016.

References

1. ^ Smith, Ryan (5 February 2014). "How a transgender "foreign hope" is challenging the pro StarCraft world". The AV Club.

2. ^ O'Neill, Patrick (21 December 2013). "Meet Scarlett, the 20-year-old woman who's blazing trails in 'StarCraft'". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on December 21, 2013.

3. ^ Aidan, Julian (September 24, 2014). "Red Bull Battle Grounds 2014 Comes To Stunning Conclusion". Hardcore Gamer Magazine. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014.

4. ^ @expertesport (17 August 2016). "A selection of our new roster. Do you recognize any of them?" (Tweet) - via Twitter.

5. ^ @newbeecn (10 November 2018). "The QUEEN is here~ Welcome to Newbee @onfireScarlett" (Tweet) - via Twitter.

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Astronaut

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Distillery District Magazine

In the spirit of sharing new media about Dr. Roberta Bondar with everyone, we were just tagged in the Instagram post announcing her cover on the Distillery District Magazine

Click here to see Instagram Post

The story inside also includes 5 of her images from the Loch gallery. This story isn't directly about the anniversary or event, but a great reminder of Dr. Roberta Bondar's art and distintions.

Click here to see the Magazine - JAN 2022 Vol. 68

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Born: Aug. 26, 1918
Died: Feb. 24, 2020
Hometown: White Sulphur Springs, WV
Education: B.S., Mathematics and French, West Virginia State College, 1937
Hired by NACA: June 1953
Retired from NASA: 1986
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Biography by Margot Lee Shetterly
Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia's graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life's most notable moments, but it's just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson's long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, her intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By 13, she was attending the high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At 18, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school's math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in mathematics. She graduated with highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia.

When West Virginia decided to quietly integrate its graduate schools in 1939, West Virginia State's president, Dr. John W. Davis, selected her and two men to be the first black students offered spots at the state's flagship school, West Virginia University. She left her teaching job and enrolled in the graduate math program. At the end of the first session, however, she decided to leave school to start a family with her first husband, James Goble. She returned to teaching when her three daughters got older, but it wasn't until 1952 that a relative told her about open positions at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA's) Langley laboratory, headed by fellow West Virginian Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine and her husband decided to move the family to Newport News, Virginia, to pursue the opportunity, and Katherine began work at Langley in the summer of 1953. Just two weeks into her tenure in the office, Dorothy Vaughan assigned her to a project in the Maneuver Loads Branch of the Flight Research Division, and Katherine's temporary position soon became permanent. She spent the next four years analyzing data from flight tests and worked on the investigation of a plane crash caused by wake turbulence. As she was wrapping up this work her husband died of cancer in December 1956.

The 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik changed history-and Johnson's life. In 1957, she provided some of the math for the 1958 document Notes on Space Technology, a compendium of a series of 1958 lectures given by engineers in the Flight Research Division and the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD). Engineers from those groups formed the core of the Space Task Group, the NACA's first official foray into space travel. Johnson, who had worked with many of them since coming to Langley, "came along with the program" as the NACA became NASA later that year. She did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard's May 1961 mission Freedom 7, America's first human spaceflight. In 1960, she and engineer Ted Skopinski coauthored Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position, a report laying out the equations describing an orbital spaceflight in which the landing position of the spacecraft is specified. It was the first time a woman in the Flight Research Division had received credit as an author of a research report.

In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Johnson was called upon to do the work that she would become most known for. The complexity of the orbital flight had required the construction of a worldwide communications network, linking tracking stations around the world to IBM computers in Washington, Cape Canaveral in Florida, and Bermuda. The computers had been programmed with the orbital equations that would control the trajectory of the capsule in Glenn's Friendship 7 mission from liftoff to splashdown, but the astronauts were wary of putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines, which were prone to hiccups and blackouts. As a part of the preflight checklist, Glenn asked engineers to "get the girl"-Johnson-to run the same numbers through the same equations that had been programmed into the computer, but by hand, on her desktop mechanical calculating machine. "If she says they're good,'" Katherine Johnson remembers the astronaut saying, "then I'm ready to go." Glenn's flight was a success, and marked a turning point in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space.

When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Johnson would talk about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo's Lunar Module with the lunar-orbiting Command and Service Module. She also worked on the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS, later renamed Landsat) and authored or coauthored 26 research reports. She retired in 1986, after 33 years at Langley. "I loved going to work every single day," she said. In 2015, at age 97, Johnson added another extraordinary achievement to her long list: President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.

She died on Feb. 24, 2020. NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said, "Our NASA family is sad to learn the news that Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old. She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten."

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Dr. Eugenia Duodu is the CEO of Visions of Science Network for Learning in Toronto Canada. She is a public speaker, scientist, and STEM advocate.

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In the 2006 movie , average folks Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph participate in an experiment and wake up 500 years later. The world has turned...dumb. They all drink and use something called Brawndo-a mix between Gatorade and an energy drink-even to their crops, which, by the way, are dying. Sometimes the simplest things are actually exactly what you need. When Luke and Maya suggest they use water instead, they respond with "like, out of the toilet?" We're inundated with specialty features and thousands of different brands offering slightly different things. That's cool but sometimes, well, sometimes you just need what's been used all along.

WOMEN IN NUMBERS: 783 million

It's no secret that water is a luxury we often take for granted. It's estimated that 783 million people don't have access to water that's safe and clean. Fresh water is crucial to human survival, including in a bigger, grander way, like manufacturing and electricity production. Water is a big component of cause-effect in this world-if there's no water to grow plant life, an animal who survives on it doesn't survive, and the animal who survives on that animal doesn't survive, and on and on. And no, Brawndo isn't the solution.

WOMAN TO WATCH: Dr. Lam Sze Mun
Dr. Lam Sze Mun has made serious waves in Malaysia. She's the first in her family to earn a PhD and currently works as an assistant professor at University Tunku Abdul Rahman. She's a researcher with a team that works on turning greywater-the stuff that isn't sewage but isn't drinkable-into applications like electricity and irrigation.

Lam and her team have made significant strides toward using greywater for good. She says that 400ml of the stuff can generate power up to 10,000 mAh power bank. Essentially, the amount of greywater in a can of soda can be used to power a new iPhone Plus two or three times.

Earlier this year, Lam earned a gold medal for a competition called iCompEx, which celebrates new, innovative projects. She's also highly published in her field and acts as an ongoing reviewer in academic publications. Lam knows that research is just research until you put it out there, let other scientists expand on it and hopefully, impact society for the better.

In 2018, Lam was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science grant. It's an honor, of course, but also means she is receiving funding to pursue her significant work. Being a female scientist in Malaysia has given Lam a unique perspective. She urges women to not give up on their dreams or goals. She insists that the key to success or fulfilling what's on your lifelong agenda is collaboration, from help from colleagues to support from family.

Poet Rudy Francisco said:

"My highest ambition is to crawl out from under the ash and laugh at all the things that thought they could bury me."

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Dr. Lam Sze Mun: Are We Running out of Water?

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Multiplayer is one of the most popular and effective ways to leverage Minecraft in the classroom. It's a great way to encourage collaboration, communication and problem solving as students work together on projects in a shared Minecraft world.

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Minecraft: Education Edition features multiplayer games that connect using picture based join codes. All players in the same Office 365 tenant can host and join worlds together in the classroom. For most users, this means the part of your email address after the @ symbol matches that of the other players. A single multiplayer game can host a maximum of 40 players, and can connect players across all supported platforms. Server-style multiplayer or a dedicated server is not possible at this time.

Although the Multiplayer experience was designed and optimized for classroom use where all players are on the same network, Multiplayer across different internet connections is possible by making some changes to your home network configuration. Visit the How to Set Up a Multiplayer Game from Home Guide to understand how to host a game that players on other networks will be able to join.

Our support team is limited in our ability to troubleshoot unique network issues, but we are always happy to try to help.

Requirements

Here are the requirements for the best possible multiplayer experience:

Multiplayer is possible for players within the same Office 365 tenant.

Players should have the most up-to-date version of Minecraft: Education Edition

All players need to be running the same version of Minecraft: Education Edition to be able to host and join worlds together.

Server-style multiplayer is not possible and a sever license is not available.

If you have trouble connecting to a Multiplayer world, check out the Troubleshooting section of this article for tips on how to resolve common issues.

How to Host a World

Click Play on the home screen

Host an existing world

Choose an existing world to host from the View My Worlds collection. You can also import and launch a new world from the Library Collection. Follow the instructions in the How to host a world in-progress section to host a world that you open from the Library Collection.

Click on a world in your My Worlds collection and then click Host.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

Create a new world to host

On the Play screen, click Create New and then click New.

Select the options you would like applied to your new world, and then click Host.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

How to host a game in-progress

Pause the game and from the Friends tab click Start Hosting then click Confirm.

Read the Configure settings for your Multiplayer game section to learn how to access your Join Code and change settings for your hosted world.

How to join a world

Click Play on the Home screen and then click Join World.

Enter the Join Code for the world you want to join by clicking on each picture in order.

Configure settings for your multiplayer game

World Settings

Pause the game, and then click Settings on the World Settings tab.

Select the default permissions you would like players to have when they join your world: Visitor, Member or Operator. Note that any Instructor who joins a world will always have Operator permissions. You can also configure other World settings from this screen.

Player Permissions

Hosts and teachers are able to edit the permission levels and remove other players from the world

Host Settings

Pause your game and click the Friends tab. Take note of the four pictures in your Join Code and share them with players that you want invite into your world.

Restricting access to your world

At some point you may want to limit other players from joining your world. This can be done in a few ways:

Change the Join Code by pausing the game and selecting the refresh symbol next to the Join Code. Players in the world will not have to re-enter their Join Code, however any new players must use the new Join Code.

Use the command /setmaxplayers to limit the amount of people in your world

A teacher or host of a world will always be able to edit their own permissions as well as permissions for other players in the world.

Server Hosting

When using Minecraft: Education Edition, the host must be playing the game in order for others to join. If the hosting player leaves the world, all other players will be removed from the world. This is a different model from Java and Bedrock hosted servers, where you can create always-on multiplayer worlds using custom servers.

Can I setup a dedicated server for multiplayer in Minecraft: Education Edition?

Minecraft: Education is not currently compatible with server software, so it's not possible to set up an always-on world that players can visit anytime. This is a popular piece of feedback and we hope to have a solution in the future.

Can I use my Minecraft: Education Edition licenses to access a Minecraft Bedrock or Java server?

Since each of these Minecraft editions use distinct licensing systems, it's not possible to login to a different edition with Minecraft: Education Edition licenses.

Troubleshooting

Performance Issues

If you are able to connect to a multiplayer game but start to see decreased performance as more players join your game, try the following to improve your experience:

It is recommended that the host computer has at least 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth.

Examine your network speed and ensure the amount of players is not overloading your network.

Turn down the render speed to 4 chunks and turn off fancy graphics in the Video area of the World Settings screen.

For more information on how to best utilize multiplayer with 30 or more students you can connect with other teachers in our community forums.

Connection Issues

Close out of the game and restart the application. Have joining/hosting a world be the first thing you do after launch and login. Once users have played their own world they must restart to join a multiplayer world

Try joining the world manually with the IP address. Directions can be found in How to set up a Multiplayer game at home

Try a new world. NOT one that has been previously saved

Your network needs to allow communications with https://meeservices.azurewebsites.net/ (the URL needs to be "white listed" by any systems in your network that block access to the internet such as router settings, anti-virus or your firewall software)

If you are on iPad:

On your iOS device's home screen (iOS 14 or later), tap Settings.

Tap Privacy. Local network. You'll find a list of apps.

Turn on local network access for the app(s) that you would like to allow network access.

Often times an antivirus software or your firewall can block multiplayer connection. This external article can provide guidance on ensuring your antivirus or firewall is not blocking the multiplayer connection: https://jackboxgames.happyfox.com/kb/article/28-how-to-whitelist-and-resolve-issues-in-antivirus-software-and-firewalls/

If players are not using the same version of Minecraft: Education edition they will see the error "Could not connect. Outdated server". Use our download page to update to the latest version.

If the host computer disconnects (even temporarily) everyone on the world will lose connection. The host will need to re-start the hosting session and all players will need to re-connect with the new join code.

Try connecting your modem directly to your computer using a network cable.

Try turning off other apps on your machine.

Try removing and re-installing Minecraft: Education Edition.

Make sure that port 19132 is not blocked in your network configuration.

You also may need to forward port 19132 on your router. Forwarding ports is useful because it can help to make your network connection more stable and sometimes even faster.

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