There is little doubt that pilots have a tremendous amount of responsibility when flying. Right from the point of getting into their plane and during their flight checks and their taking off and landing. Once some of the basic checks are out of the way and it comes down to being ready to take off
In the United States of America, you have access to some of the biggest lottery draws in the world. Mega Millions and Powerball pay out lottery jackpots worth hundreds of millions of dollars on a regular basis, but winners of these generous prizes must pay out a significant portion of their prize money in taxes
We’ve all heard thunder, and we all know what causes it. Many of us have heard two distinct kinds of thunder, but perhaps we never really noticed or thought about it. Recently, I heard a third kind of thunder. “Ordinary” thunder – a thoroughly extraordinary sound, but the kind of thunder we hear most often
We have all come across people who speak with accents. In a college math class with a professor from another country, on the phone with a customer service representative at an outsourced call center, at work with a co-worker born and raised in a different part of the country. We ourselves may even be that
“Incidental Teaching” is an interaction between an adult and child that occurs in a natural situation or setting which can be used to give the child an opportunity to practice a skill. Many practitioners of Applied Behavior Analysis believe that Incidental Teaching can be used as a primary teaching approach for children with autism instead
It wasn’t long after someone came up with the idea of a robot that people wanted it to understand human speech and text. It was a dream that could only be found in the pages of science fiction books and short stories, or observed in movies. Known as Natural Language Processing (NLP), the concept of
Given rapid changes going on in today's world, many schools do not train their students well in financial literacy. As a result, most people easily get ripped off by flawed financial information and lose money. Due to the spinning of financial fairy tales today, many people play the game of capital gains and deem it
In school’s today, kids are smarter than ever and it is always a challenge for teachers to keep their interests on the subject being taught. At a young age, kids at home are being using laptops, desktops, and even kids level computers like Leapfrog. Kids are also being taught at home not only to read
Ways in which you can boost your child's academic skills this summer through the art of PLAY. By now most parents have heard it many times: "kids learn through play." The specifics however, of exactly how and what they learn remain vague and under-appreciated. Before hiring a tutor or enrolling your child in a learning
Kids are natural born collectors. They also love fads. Enter: the Squishy. These Japanese imports are the newest craze and are causing quite a stir. Not only are they hard to find, as they are not sold in your average store, most adults have never heard of them. Today we will answer all of the
