February 14, 2009 16:12:07
THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS DRAWINGS
These symbols or logos are a few of the world's best known drawings. Most of them are what we call "brands". They communicate so much and are so powerful that they can be worth millions of dollars. A brand is a promise - a promise of service, quality, or value. A brand can also be a s...
August 1, 2008 14:20:56
A pencil is quiet, clean, odorless, inexpensive, and lightweight. You can slip it in your pocket and take it anywhere - it is a secret friend and probably the most common utensil of our daily lives. Dozens of them lay around our homes and offices and in our pockets, yet we hardly think about it ...
September 30, 2008 20:46:44
KANGAROO FARTS & GLOBAL WARMING
Farts from farm animals make up about 15% of all world greenhouse gasses. These gases are helping to increase global warming. Cows, sheep, chickens, pigs, horses, and kangaroos are all vegetarians and fart a great deal. Farts are made of a gas called Methane which can explode. And farm animals d...
September 30, 2008 20:56:11
When bees buzz, they talk to each other, right? Wrong! Bees buzz because their wings flap so fast. They talk by dancing - and what a dance it is! The special jitterbug-like dance of the honey bee was first noticed in 1944 by Austrian naturalist Karl von Frisch. Bees need to tell eac...
March 25, 2009 14:29:16
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. There was a...
November 29, 2008 21:01:08
This is a simple flash animation tutorial showing the basic construction for the frontal face view of the Walt Disney character, Donald Duck. You start with a square and then divide the square into 4 sections vertically and 3 sections horizontally. You then draw a circle within the original squa...
April 2, 2009 19:17:33
The first kiss can make or break a relationship. Besides being an emotional experience, kissing tells our primitive brains much about each other. The more different a man's saliva is from the woman's, the stronger the sub-conscious attraction. And research in the animal kingdom is revealing that...
March 22, 2009 15:09:40
Strange things can happen if you do!. Click this link and see what can happen - online! (it takes 3 seconds to open) . There are over 200 drawings and cartoons to color or change as you like! You can also make your own original artwork with the wide selection of painting and dra...
February 18, 2009 20:48:41
Ben 10? No! Pen 10 - Obama Style
When President Barack Obama signed the $789 billion Stimulus Bill on Tuesday Feb. 17th in Colorado on live TV the audience and press were scratching their heads with laughter. The president used a brand new pen to sign each of the 10 signatures the document needed to become law. As odd as thi...
November 10, 2008 00:50:07
THANKSGIVING'S CARBON FOOTPRINT
The world's largest live turkey weighed 86 lbs (about 40 Kg). When the United States was founded in 1776, Thanksgiving was not celebrated and turkeys were wild, could run 25 MPH (40 KPH), could fly 55 MPH (70 KPH) and slept in trees. Turkeys were peaceful sort of birds that minded their own bu...
March 2, 2009 21:12:01
People who doodle are smart - they pay more attention and remember things better than those who do not doodle. That's the scientific result of a study done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth and published by the magazine Applied Cognitive P...
December 9, 2008 21:01:02
A 20 year old Chinese girl from Zhuhai in Guangdong province became partially deaf after a passionate kiss from her boyfriend. The girl was admitted to a hospital with complete loss of hearing in her left ear. The doctor who treated the girl explained his diagnosis. "The kiss reduced the pr...
September 30, 2008 20:23:51
Feb 7, 2008 marked the beginning of the first of 60 cycles of the Chinese zodiac calendar, and that starts with the year of The Earth Rat. And pet stores all over Asia and in Russia did record business selling mice, rats, gerbils, and hamsters. The western astrological zodiac calend...
January 24, 2009 21:31:06
When Queen Elizabeth II of England visited Denmark in 1960, strips of tape were placed on the controls of any elevators she would be using to cover the lit-up "I FART" panel which in danish means "in motion"! She could later go "farting 'round the canals" of Copenha...
October 14, 2008 20:31:56
They don’t stay closed. They won’t go up half the time. Pull too hard and the zipper pull comes off! Zippers are probably the first machines any of us learn to use as kids. But who first thought up the zipper and how long ago was that? It all started 115 years ago in Chi...