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POPSFree Lectures and Courses... This was clipped some time ago by someone to whom I add thanks. Newer clippers may find it interesting. I've detailed the astronomy items as that is what I was searching for.
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POPSOverheard while traveling... An American student talking on her cell phone on the train from Rome’s Termini station to the airport. -In Italy the food is so bad and unhealthy! I mean, I didn’t even see a carrot the whole month I was here. I just really want a salad… And I am craving McDonald’s. Overheard by Janelle
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POPSOnline Premium Web Directory Premium Directory of Information and business resources. Search on various categories, Cadillac Tight is family friendly human edited directory. We review all listing prior accepting into our directory.
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POPSDramatic and Heartbreaking Visuals Coming Out of the Philippines Over 100 feared dead and over 400,000 affected as typhoon hits the Philippines How to help info at http://www.typhoonondoy.org and http://www.ondoyrelief.org I think clipper haraya (http://clipmarks.com/clipper/haraya) resides in Loyola Heights. My geography is terrible and have no idea of her location with respect to this disaster.
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POPSTest your Geography Knowledge If, like me you love geography quizzes please go to site as its too difficult to clip without appearing to be selecting favorites. This is one of the best selections I have seen of this type.
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POPSObama Wants To Use Your Kids As Census-Takers
The school effort is more ambitious than in 2000, the last time the government set out to count everyone. At that time, teachers had to request the material and it was available only in print. Now, the kits and lessons will arrive in every school and lesson plans can be downloaded online, where they will be available in 28 languages. Between January and March, the Census Bureau will help plan a week of Census education in schools. During Census Week, teachers will devote 15 minutes every day for five days to the topic by discussing such things as civic participation, confidentiality or geography. Beginning in mid-March, more than 120 million Census questionnaires will be delivered to residential addresses. The Census Bureau is partnering with Sesame Street to extend the 2010 Census message to preschoolers and adult caregivers. Under consideration: Using Sesame Street characters on Census materials and having characters participate in school events and public service announcement.
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POPSWhy is India 30 minutes out of step with everybody else? After the standardization conference, most countries "rounded off" their local time, as it were, so that it differed by a whole hour(s) from GMT and from adjoining time zones. But some, for reasons of geography or politics, rounded off to the half-hour.
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POPSEmma Watson, star of Harry Potter films, is related to 16th century witch Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist from Ancestry.co.uk, who researched Watson's heritage, said: "It is not every day we are able to trace the branches of a family tree back to the 16th century witch trials. "It shows researching your family's past can have just as many twists and turns as a film blockbuster. "As we researched Emma's family, we learned that her great great great grandmother was named Frances Playle - a very uncommon surname. "The Playles have been in a small area of Essex since the early 1500s." Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, roughly 100 miles from the area. The actress, who achieved straight A grades at A level in English literature, geography and art at Headington School in Oxford, is reportedly set to attend Ivy League Brown University, in Rhode Island, USA, in September.
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POPSExpressions that define cultures 9. Maningue Nice, Mozambique A cross between a purely national term and a flair of English, maningue nice means “very nice” and is the closest thing to a slogan in Mozambique. Scream it from the tallest buildings whenever fortune favors you. 10. Bahala Na, Philippines Come What May. A Cross Cultural Theme When I started researching these expressions, I was expecting to find similarities based on geography: patterns in Asia, South America, Western Europe, etc. I was surprised, however, to find a cross-cultural theme; many of these phrases are used in response to circumstances beyond people’s control. How each culture is epitomized in these terms is indicative of how they react to unfortunate or unavoidable events. The Japanese and French suck it up; the Thais, Kiwis, Aussies, and others shrug it off; Arabs put the responsibility to a higher power.
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POPSSwamp Gorillas Perform Hand Clapping Ritual more (at source): "The sound was always two rapidly consecutive beats and the sound does carry within the rainforest, much like a gorilla chest beat," added Kalan, a researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Oxford Brookes University.
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POPSWho "discovered" America? - The Vinland Map's version The map of the world, discovered in the mid-1950s bound into an authentic medieval history of the Mongol invasions, shows Europe, western Asia and north Africa — and, in the upper left corner, a craggy-looking island labeled "Vinland Island" in Latin.
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POPSAwesome research/ Homework resource I only found this the other day and mostly I'm clipping it for my own uses; however, it's a great resource and I thought I'd share. The site itself has pretty cool info too. 'Hope you guys like the clip.
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POPSOnline peek at Peter Jackson's sci-fi movie more: They like to scavenge things, rip up train tracks. So the authorities shift them 200 miles away, into the African veldt. They've built a concentration camp. The residents of Joburg want them gone." Some of the visual effects for the film were done by Wellington's Weta Digital. " the aliens are so mundane and so part of the geography that you don't really focus on them at all," Jackson said. "The film has a documentary rawness to it. It's original, which is good because the film industry today only wants to remake every 70s TV show and superhero graphic novel." * Watch the trailer here.
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