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IKEA is using 3D printer technology to develop furniture that is accessible for those with disabilities

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IKEA is using 3D printer technology to develop furniture that is accessible for those with disabilities

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A simple demo of order and chaos (and order again) - Home made Pendulum Wave with 15 billiard balls

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World Temperatures - Weather Around The World

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Weather forecast & current weather worldwide in Fahrenheit or Celsius - hour-by-hour & 2 week forecast plus last week's weather.

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Live from TED2018

Back in 2014, Will Marshall took the TED stage to introduce us to his company, Planet, and their proposed fleet of tiny satellites. The goal: to image the planet every day, showing us how Earth changes in near-real time. In 2018, that vision has come good: Every day, a fleet of about 200 small satellites pictures every inch of the planet, taking 1.5 million 29mp images every day (about 6T of data daily), gathering data on changes both natural and human-made. The images are used by businesses, academics and other professionals to monitor our lovely planet.

This week at TED, Marshall announced a consumer version of Planet, called Planet Stories, to let ordinary people play with these images too. You can compare satellite images over time, at any location you choose, and produce time-lapse images that show change and movement. Watch a new neighborhood rise, see slow but dramatic changes in the environment, or watch the tides in a before-and-after comparison of seasonal change. It's just a little bit addictive.

Two simple tutorials will get you started for two weeks of exploring this data set. Create an account on Planet Stories and start playing >>

In a corner of the Vancouver Convention Center - set against a beautiful backdrop of Vancouver Harbour and the mountains of the North Shore, and right between a comfy simulcast lounge and a pop-up coffee and espresso shop - it's hard to miss an eye-catching vintage red car. It's the anchor of Altair's exhibit gallery, showing

"This is a little different than the mainstage at TED, in a sense that this is a little more relaxed," says our host, the poet and TED speaker Clint Smith. "These are speakers who have not been selected specifically for the mainstage, but they're just as talented, just as brilliant, and just as important." A

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Announced at TED2018: Explore satellite images with Planet Stories

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With help from one of Earth's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has taken a spectacular snapshot of a newborn planet emerging from the disk of gas and debris surrounding its host star.

The first-of-its-kind image - included in new research to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics - shows an alien world known as PDS 70b that orbits a dwarf star some 370 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

This is a baby picture of sorts, but PDS 70b isn't especially cute or cuddly. It's a gas giant more massive than Jupiter and, with a surface temperature of roughly 1,000 degrees Celsius (about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit), it's hotter than any planet in our solar system.

And if the picture itself is unique, it's what it shows that has the astronomers excited.

"This confirms our picture of planet formation, namely that planets, while accumulating material from their environment, carve a gap in the disk," Miriam Keppler, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and the leader of the team, told NBC News MACH in an email. "While discovering how planet formation takes place around other stars, we learn as well about the history of our own solar system."

The image shows PDS 70b as a bright yellowish blob near its host star, PDS 70, which is obscured by a black disk known as a coronagraph that astronomers use to keep a star's bright light from washing out much dimmer planets. In reality, PDS 70b lies some 3 billion kilometers (about 1.86 billion miles) from PDS 70, or roughly the distance from Uranus to the sun.

Other images have shown planetlike features in the disks around their host stars, but it was always hard to tell for sure that the features represented actual planets.

"This is the first time we've been able to see a planet embedded in a gas disk around a young star," Heather Knutson, a professor of planetary science at Caltech in Pasadena, California, said in an email. "Gas giant planets like this one form on a timescale of several million years, but they are hidden from view during most of this period due to the presence of the gas disk."

The image was captured by SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument attached to the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert. Six one- to two-hour observations were made of the planet and its host star between 2012 and 2018, Keppler said in the email. Algorithms were then used to remove the bright light of PDS 70, which is about 5,000 times brighter than PDS 70b and which otherwise would have overwhelmed the light from the planet.

"The technique the scientists used is ingenious, pulling the faint image of the planet out of the surrounding image of the swirling protoplanetary disk," Jay Pasachoff, a Williams College astronomer who wasn't involved in the new research, said in an email.

"It's a very interesting and pretty convincing result - a solid detection," Bruce Macintosh, a physicist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, told the journal Science.

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Giant telescope captures first image of a newborn planet

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With help from one of Earth's most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has taken a spectacular snapshot of a newborn planet emerging from the disk of gas and debris surrounding its host star.

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Mars, the red planet: Facts and information

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The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system’s most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth’s smaller, colder neighbor.

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Captured with NASA's Messenger spacecraft in 2011, this image of Mercury shows the tiny, hot planet's many craters, named after writers, artists and musicians.

This one's a little bit more dated, dating from 1996 during the Magellan mission, also known as the Venus Radar Mapper. It's been in orbit since 1989, but this shot is one of our favorites of its long trip out to the second planet. The dark spots all over the planet are meteorite impacts, and that big light section right in the center is Ovda Regio, a massive mountain range.

Over 40 years after the famous "Blue Marble" picture showed the world what our planet looks like from afar in gorgeous detail, NASA's DSCOVR satellite began taking regular portraits of Earth from its stable position a million miles away.

For Mars, we're going to reach all the way back to 1980. Recent efforts on Mars have resulted in some of the highest-quality shots ever taken of the Red Planet, but they're mostly from close by or, lately, on the surface. Those are incredible, but we were really looking for a "marble" style picture, and this is one of the most gorgeous we've ever seen. It's a mosaic of images taken by the Viking 1 orbiter. That gash in the middle is Valles Marineris, a massive canyon along the planet's equator that's among the largest in our solar system.

Jupiter's prettiest shot came from, believe it or not, a flyby--this beautiful image was taken in November of 2003 with the somewhat narrow camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft while Cassini was on its way to Saturn. Interestingly, everything you see in this image is actually a cloud, not the surface of the planet itself--the white and tan rings are all different types of cloud cover. This image is notable because these colors are very close to what the human eye would see.

And when the Cassini probe finally made it past Jupiter and out to Saturn, it was all worth it, because the photos of Saturn and its moons are extraordinary. This shot was compiled from a 9-hour-long photo session that let scientists capture this gorgeous backlit view.

Poor Uranus. In 1986, when Voyager 2 passed by the first "ice giant" on its way out to the unknown, it looked like nothing more than a featureless blue-green sphere. That's due to a haze of methane clouds, which are the final layer of frozen gases in this little-known planet. It's believed that there are clouds of water somewhere underneath, but, well, we're not really sure.

The final planet that is technically a planet according to scientists (but not our hearts), Neptune was only discovered in 1846 and even then it was discovered due to mathematical calculation, not due to observation--changes in the orbit of Uranus led astronomer Alexis Brouvard to the discovery that another planet was out there. And this image is not very good because Neptune has been visited only once, by the Voyager 2, in 1989. It's hard to get a sense of what's going on out on Neptune--temperatures are barely above absolute zero, it's buffeted by the strongest winds in the solar system (up to 1,300mph), and in fact we have very little idea how the planet was formed or operates.

So, yes, Pluto is a "dwarf planet" rather than a regular planet. But we couldn't leave it out, especially with all the amazing images sent back from New Horizons flyby in 2015. What was once just a blurry circle is now a high-definition wonder with features that will keep planetary scientists busy for years to come.

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The most incredible pictures of every planet in our solar system

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Captured with NASA's Messenger spacecraft in 2011, this image of Mercury shows the tiny, hot planet's many craters, named after writers, artists and musicians. This one's a little bit more dated, dating from 1996 during the Magellan mission, also known as the Venus Radar Mapper.

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On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars - The Oatmeal

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This is a comic about NASA's Insight mission to Mars.

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Nature's colors

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DAZZLING DISPLAY: Colorful fall foliage captured by a drone flying high above northern Utah's Ogden Valley. https://abcn.ws/2yfXFrO

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Find *FREE* ways to have math-based conversations at home, on the road, or anywhere. From math specialists to parents around the world, a new idea will be shared each week.

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A Universal Newsreel report on President Johnson's first major policy speech regarding the Vietnam War. A short report about tensions in Berlin, Germany ends the newsreel.

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DiveSmile has 6,607 members. Юмора много не бывает, особенно водолазно-дайверского!

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Giant Dead Whale Is Haunting Reminder of Massive Plastic Pollution Problem

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A powerful provocation for PYP schools inquiring into Sharing the Planet - a whale sized problem of the anthropocene. Great potential for action.

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Greenpeace Philippines recently created a real... whale of a public art piece (sorry, we couldn't help ourselves), to address one of the world's most serious problems: plastic pollution.

In an effort to motivate the public to consider the impact this plastic trash has on our planet and illustrate why we need to recycle, use alternative biodegradable containers (like hemp or glass) when possible, and participate in local clean-up projects, Greenpeace Philippines created a powerful visual and global message about plastic pollution with a giant "Dead Whale" installation. The 50-foot long whale replica, was created entirely from plastic waste, and was 'beached' near the shoreline in Manila Bay.

"Listen to the dead whale's wake-up call, look closer and see what plastic pollution does to the ocean," Greenpeace Philippines wrote on Facebook about the campaign. "We hope that this installation encourages the public to take action and #RefusePlastic."

Biboy Royong, creative director of the "Dead Whale" project, said the art exhibit was inspired by a young 38' long sperm whale that had died after ingesting plastic, fish net, hook, rope and steel wire: "we based its shape, color, texture, size and proportion on pictures of real beached whales," ... "We even chose to show a decomposing whale so we played more with the textures on its skin using plastic trash we have collected. We wanted to surprise the community in the area. For it to work, we had to carefully craft a realistic dead whale."

There was an environmental projection that by 2050, if we don't stop polluting our waters, there could be more ocean wastes than marine life," Royong told Spot.

Giant 'Dead Whale' Is Haunting Reminder of Massive Plastic Pollution Problem

Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2qJPRgU

Posted by EcoWatch on Tuesday, May 16, 2017

When many people first saw the whale, they thought it was real and quickly shared photos causing the story to go viral. In fact, Greenpeace did little to no advertising of the project, relying almost entirely on social media to spread the word. One person wrote on the Greenpeace Phillippines' Facebook page that is was the: "Most disturbing thing that I have seen in my life!"

"That is so outrageous and horrible, that it almost looks fake," wrote Keven on this post on the 5Gyres Facebook page.

Greenpeace also circulated an online petition, calling on "the ASEAN member states to take concrete measures against plastics pollution in the high seas."

The dangers of plastic pollution and the effects on ocean life are very real and very terrible often resulting in a painful death for these beautiful creatures:

Photo credit: Vince Cinches, the Philippines Oceans Campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia. He also has an excellent blog.
A quick note from our founder-
Over the past year, my friend Dave at PaleoHacks has been working on a secret cookbook with world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu chef Peter Servold.

Well, today this new this new incredible Paleo Cookbook is finally available to be shipped right to your door for FREE

That's right as a special launch promotion, we're offering our brand new Paleo fat loss cookbook to you for free (Chef Pete lost 60 lbs using these recipes!) All you have to do is just cover a small shipping cost (international shipping is a bit more).

Get your FREE copy of Paleo Eats Here. (Grab this today, because we only ordered a small batch of these cookbooks for this freebie promotion, and they will sell out FAST!)
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Giant 'Dead Whale' Is Haunting Reminder of Massive Plastic Pollution Problem

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Earth: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

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earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

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See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.

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حد شاف إنبات البذرة قبل كده 😃😍 #كن_نبات

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Making Prosthetics from Recycled Plastics 

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L'Atelier des Lumières | Welcome to Paris's first digital art museum! | By Culture Trip | Facebook

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18M views, 66K likes, 20K loves, 47K comments, 351K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Culture Trip: Welcome to Paris's first digital art museum!

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Chasing The Monsoon Best Of 2017 to 18, In Timelapse. Kimberley Australia. " Also On Youtube "

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Meet the artist who uses math to make never-ending blooming sculptures.

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The true size map-measure countries against each other in real comparison

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The true size map-measure countries against each other in real comparison

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Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

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If you've ever visited TheTrueSizeOf website, you'll know one thing: the interactive map shows just how ginormous some of the world's most famous nations really are.

The major reason as to why some countries look bigger or smaller than they are, is because of a certain controversial map: the Mercator Projection. Back in the day, cartographers found it very difficult to plot our 3D planet onto a two-dimensional map. That is, until Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator came along in the 16th century, and created a fine map that could be accurately used for naval navigation.

The problem? The whole thing actually distorted the true size of continents, later leading to accusations of eurocentrism in the 20th century. The distortion arose because the map plotted the Earth's landmasses depending on their position relative to the equator, which made places like Greenland look way bigger than they actually were.

To set the record straight, take a look at these maps below.
Who would have thought the USA and Down Under were the same size... Looks like China, India and the USA comfortably fit into Africa... Doesn't the UK look absolutely massive in the Arctic Circle? And if you put China over North America, it looks the size of Jupiter... Well, Peru certainly looks bigger when it's plonked right on top of Antarctica... Speaking of Antarctica, seeing it in the North Atlantic kinda puts it into perspective... And rather than being the same size as Africa as Mercator would have us believe, Greenland is nothing but a speck in comparison... Love maps? This one shows you the world's favourite books!
Discover just how big your country is on thetruesize.com.

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You'll Never Look at the World the Same Again After Seeing These Maps

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If you've ever visited TheTrueSizeOf website, you'll know one thing: the interactive map shows just how ginormous some of the world's most famous nations really are. The major reason as to why some countries look bigger or smaller than they are, is because of a certain controversial map: the Mercator Projection.

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Google Maps now zooms out to show a 3D view of the globe, rather than a flat 'Mercator' projection.

While Mercator maps present accurate country shapes, they enlarge regions that are farther away from the equator.

For example, in the Mercator projection, Greenland appears comparable to (or larger than) Africa, a continent 14 times greater than it in size. Now, " with 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop ", this is no longer the case.

As well as the obvious geographical aspect, cartographic representation can carry important cultural, political and historical weight.

The Mercator projection, created in 1596 by German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator, places Europe directly in the centre of the map, with both the United States and Europe appearing larger than they really are in comparison to Africa and South America.

Critics point out that while the projection was useful for European seafarers, its use in 21st-century visual representations may be less appropriate owing to the geopolitical implications that come with it. In the book Unthinking Eurocentrism, authors Ella Shohat and Robert Stam write that, in the Mercator projection, Europe "is seen as the unique source of meaning, as the world's center of gravity, as ontological 'reality' to the rest of the world's shadow."

While Google didn't offer any cultural reasoning for its update, the new 3D globe certainly offers a different perspective on the size and centrality of nations around the world.

You can check out the new 3D map for yourself on all major desktop browsers, including Chrome and Firefox. The update is not yet available on mobile.
For more on the complex cultural significance of maps, check out the beautiful and controversial maps that changed the world forever.

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The New 'Globe Mode' on Google Maps Will Change the Way You Think About The World

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Google Maps now zooms out to show a 3D view of the globe, rather than a flat 'Mercator' projection. While Mercator maps present accurate country shapes, they enlarge regions that are farther away from the equator. For example, in the Mercator projection, Greenland appears comparable to (or larger than) Africa, a continent 14 times greater than it in size.

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Ring allows you to create beats and melodies by... - In The Know Innovation

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Ring allows you to create beats and melodies by... - In The Know Innovation

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Ring allows you to create beats and melodies by tapping on different colors

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A rare waterfall rainbow caught at Yosemite National Park 😍🌈💦

Video footage via Greg Harlow Media

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Animation Explores the Beautiful Circles of Our World

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Starting With the Earth as a Marble, This Is the First Timelapse of the Solar System to Scale | Colossal

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When looking in a science textbook or a toy mobile of the solar system, it's easy to depict the sun, planets and moon to scale in comparison to each other. What's not so easy to visually comprehend the staggering distance that separates each planet on its individual orbit around the sun. Filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet challenged themselves to build such a model and the result is this fascinating short film To Scale.

Starting with the Earth as the size of a marble, it turns out you need an area about 7 miles (11.2km) to squeeze in the orbit of the outermost planet, Neptune. The team used glass spheres lit by LEDs and some GPS calculations to map out the solar system on the dry bed of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Once nighttime arrived they shot a timelapse from a nearby mountain that accurately reflects the distance of each orbital path at a scale of roughly 1:847,638,000. Amazing.

If you have more questions about how they did it, here's a brief making of clip. (via Colossal Submissions)

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Starting With the Earth as a Marble, This Is the First Timelapse of the Solar System to Scale

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When looking in a science textbook or a toy mobile of the solar system, it's easy to depict the sun, planets and moon to scale in comparison to each other. What's not so easy to visually comprehend the staggering distance that separates each planet on its individual orbit around the sun.

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Who else finds the movement of this stingray absolute mesmerising? 😍

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Jellyfish

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PYP Transdisciplinary Themes Provocations - HonorsGradU

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But similar to how my view of the PYP key concepts has broadened over time, so too is my view of this theme. I have come to better understand that expressing ourselves is a basic human need that is woven into all we do.

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Wish you were there? This 360° footage of the Galápagos puts you smack in the middle of Darwin’s living laboratory. https://on.natgeo.com/2MTcczn

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(1) Autoblog - These wind propelled animal sculptures are mesmerizing.

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Nelson Mandela once said: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

And it's true, education is one of the greatest resources the world has to offer. Unfortunately, young girls and women ― half of world's the population ― are rarely given the same opportunities as boys to learn, study and succeed.

Globally, 65 million girls are not in school. Out of the 774 million people who are illiterate around the world, two-thirds are women. There are 33 million fewer girls in primary school than boys. And education really does save lives: If every woman around the globe had a primary and secondary education, childhood deaths would be cut in half.

In January, Betsy DeVos became the U.S. Secretary of Education. DeVos, who's an education activist with little-to-no actual experience working in schools, comes from a billionaire family and advocates almost exclusively for private and charter schools. The right of children to a solid public education, once considered a clear public good in the United States, now hangs in the balance.

To celebrate International Women's Day and honor the importance of global education, we've rounded up 60 photos of girls going to school around the world.

The photos feature girls of all ages from Iran to Somalia to the U.S. to Japan getting an education -- something all children should have a right to, no matter their gender.

BEFORE YOU GO

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60 Stunning Photos Of Girls Going To School Around The Globe

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Nelson Mandela once said: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." And it's true, education is one of the greatest resources the world has to offer. Unfortunately, young girls and women ― half of world's the population ― are rarely given the same opportunities as boys to learn, study and succeed.

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No matter their cultural background, no matter their economic situation, kids will always find imaginative ways to have fun. Their wild imaginations and magical childhood moments, when captured on camera by talented photographers, can make for truly wonderful photos. These 33 images we collected will prove that childhood can be wonderful no matter where you go.

Indonesia

Image credits: Ipoenk Graphic

Image credits: Agoes Antara

Image credits: I Gede Lila Kantiana

Image credits: Gede Lila Kantiana

Russia

Image credits: Светлана Квашина

Image credits: Elena Shumilova

Burkina Faso

Image credits: Òscar Tardío

Myanmar

Image credits: Chan Kwok Hung

Tajikistan

Image credits: Damon Lynch

India

Image credits: Sandee Pachetan

Image Credits: Sudharsan Ravikumar

Image credits: Mukund Images

Vietnam

Image Credits: HT KëñShï

Ghana

Image credits: Terry White

Estonia

Image credits: Elika Hunt

Thailand

Image credits: Sarawut Intarob

Image credits: Sarawut Intarob

Image credits: Sarawut Intarob

South Africa

Image credits: Muhammed Muheisen

Source: tinosoriano.com

Peru

Image credits: Enrique Castro-Mendivil

Ethiopia

Image credits: Csilla Zelko

Italy

Image credits: Michael Potyomin

Israel

Image credits: Dima Vazinovich

USA

Image credits: Jake Olson

Indonesia #2

Image credits: Rio Rinaldi Rachmatullah

Image credits: James Khoo

Image credits: Hendrik Priyanto

Image Credits: Mio Cade

Romania

Image credits: Elena Simona Craciun

Russia

Image credits: Elena Shumilova

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30 Magical Photos Of Children Playing Around The World

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No matter their cultural background, no matter their economic situation, kids will always find imaginative ways to have fun. Their wild imaginations and magical childhood moments, when captured on camera by talented photographers, can make for truly wonderful photos. For better or worse, the children in these photos seem entirely content making their own fun.

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The Kid Should See This: Educational videos for curious kids of all ages, a free resource for parents & teachers. Science, art, nature, animals, & more.

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I had to share this fabulous provocation from Rosa Parks Early Childhood Center!

Whoever thought of showcasing light onto the table? Genius right? A few years ago, Fairy Dust Teaching gifted pocket projectors to Rosa Parks Early Childhood Center (They do not have smart boards, which is actually a positive thing to not have them for young children, but that is a conversation for another time)

What is a Pocket Projector?

Pocket Projectors are small projectors that connects via HDMI cable to most smartphones, tablets, computers, video players, cameras and more. You can project onto any surface or wall your bright, sharp images or videos.

( Image sourced from Amazon)

The Provocation

The teachers think of such wonderful and developmentally appropriate ways to use technology with young children. Natalie Macare, who has taught here for many years, used her pocket projector to take the children's investigation with found materials and plastics further.

By setting out the found and recycled materials on the table with the projection of colorful backdrop, the children began building houses of light, exploring shadow and light play, and stacking and sorting around the colors of light, and much more.

It truly was a delight to see this in action! There are so many incredible ways to utilize light with children. It opens the door to curiosity! Allows children to ask questions, learn shades of color, and incorporate light in their play.
Ideas for Pocket Projectors in the Classroom

Recording children building or playing and then projecting clip up for next day while they build

Letting children take photos via Ipad or phone on a nature walk and projecting it in a shaded place outside to discuss

Projecting patterns on the blocks in construction area

Projecting a day or nighttime sky onto ceiling in one area while children play

Project daily pictures/videos at reflection meeting wherever children are meeting

How do you use light in your classroom? I'd love to hear about it below!

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The Magic of a Light and Projection Provocation: Brillant!

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I had to share this fabulous provocation from Rosa Parks Early Childhood Center! Whoever thought of showcasing light onto the table? Genius right?

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When you shrink the world's population down to 100 people, this is what you get:

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FIRST TIME SEEING COLOR Compilation! (Enchroma Colorblind Glasses)