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The Early Years: Science and Sense Very young children can't tell us what they need. But new scientific research into the developing brain provides strong clues. From Neurons to Neighborhoods, a new report from the National Research Council, says we now Full Review »
Photography has been used to record war since the Crimean War in 1855. This unit will explore how and why war has been photographed and will also give students an opportunity to see the bias within the recording/reporting of war. Full Review »
The ancestors of American Indians came to North America from Siberia, which is today a part Russia. They came across the Bering Sea at a time when the ocean was much lower and there was a bridge of dry land between Alaska and Russia. Archeologists know ve Full Review »
Coffee Break is a collection of short reports on recent biological discoveries. Each report incorporates interactive tutorials that show how bioinformatics tools are used as a part of the research process. Full Review »
There are currently many excellent books and articles about the biology and husbandry of soft corals as aquarium specimens. However, the literature on artificial propagation or culture of these animals, especially on a large scale, is scant or lacking. Full Review »
The Gila monster is a large, heavy- bodied lizard reaching a little over 1¼ feet in length. The head is large, with small, beady eyes; the tail is short and fat. The family name Helodermatidae means "warty skin," referring to the beaded look of the Full Review »
This large-bodied venomous snake is distinguished by a series of "diamonds" that run almost the entire length of the body; two distinctive light stripes on each side of the face that angle diagonally (with one stripe in front of and one stripe b Full Review »
The reticulated python gets its name from the distinctive color and pattern on its scales. According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary the word "reticulated" is an adjective defined as "having lines intercrossed, forming a network." It is a Full Review »
Fantasy books are filled with stories about two-headed dragons and two-headed monsters, but who has ever heard of a two-headed tortoise? This is exactly what Noël Daniels, a welder of Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa, discovered when he went Full Review »
Collection of famous quotations and books written by Charles Dickens. Full Review »

