I love my RSS reader! I use Google Reader everyday to get the latest information from websites around the world, its changed the way we use the web, allowing us to get information faster. But I know this is new and people are still unsure what RSS is, so I will let the people from Common Craft explain it in one of there awesome videos..
RSS Reader: www.google.com/reader
Video Link: www.youtube.com
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Do you know how many tropical rainforest plants have been identified as having anti-cancer properties? Or how many continents around the world contain rainforests? And just how quickly the world’s rainforests are disappearing?
Find out the answers to these questions and more as you check out these interesting rainforest facts..
Article Link: www.nature.org/rainforests
If we do not fix this major global warming issue, humanity could/is seeing epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. This is a must see for everyone in our world! As this is a problem that affects us all. Lets hope they start showing this in schools so our children know the very real problem our world is in. I have linked the official website and the trailer video, enjoy..
Official Website Link: www.climatecrisis.net
Video Link: www.youtube.com
People living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation. In contrast, those living in the higher latitudes, closer to the Poles, have developed fair skin to maximize vitamin D production..
Article Link: www.grida.no
This is the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
The first group of students using the XO laptops are loving them, and have a larger passion for learning, as now they have the ability to learn more than there teacher knows and can offer, this is a amazing project, great article..
Article Link: www.cnn.com
This laptop has had so much thought placed into it, so it can be an ultimate education machine, it seems like fantastic product, i wish others would do this.
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In order to accomplish our goal, we need people who believe in what we’re doing and want to help make education for the world’s children a priority, not a privilege..
Article Link: www.laptopgiving.org
