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The Grimm Sisters: The Forgotten Women Behind Fairy Tales
[…] Fairytales didn’t begin with the Brothers Grimm. Long before Jacob and Wilhelm published their famous stories, women were the ones collecting, telling, and preserving these dark, magical tales. In this video, I discuss the forgotten female storytellers behind the … Continue reading
Exposing grammar myths and mistakes with Grammar Girl
Is it “on accident” or “by accident”? Should “red, white, and blue” have that second comma? Is “10 items or less” okay? Jess and Rob are joined by the internet’s Grammar Girl, Mignon Fogarty, to examine some common grammatical myths … Continue reading
Ancient trick to calculate ANY square root
An ancient formula is astoundingly accurate. Why didn’t we learn this in school? 0:00 history 2:32 calculations 7:22 sqrt 2 10:19 intuition Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBC_7289 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… Babylonian numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… Josell7, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/… via Wikimedia … Continue reading
How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit
Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs! https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been the evolution … Continue reading
Co-op | The Peace Village – Wahat al-Salam – Neve Shalom
For more than 100 years, co-operatives have been great advocates for and builders of peace and at a time when the world and our communities at home are becoming more divided places, never has co-operation been needed more. Co-operatives build … Continue reading
Jamaican Tainos Survival | Indigenous Arawakan Tribe
Long before Jamaica’s transition to independence, before the British’s claimed their land, before the importation of African slave labor after the Spanish invaded their territory, before the resistance and uprising of the maroons, and before colonialism, the island was inhabited … Continue reading
