June 24, 2010 19:19:41
DreamWorks takes Danish Trolls to Hollywood
In 1959 Thomas Dam was an unemployed danish fisherman. With no money to buy a Christmas gift for his daughter Lajla, he used his family's carving talents to make a gift. He created a wooden, troll doll modeling it after his own mirror image. 51 years later the trolls are going to Hollywood. On J...
October 29, 2009 02:41:48
Einstein Mozart Darwin Warhol & Bill Gates
Asperger's Syndrome - often pronounced as(s)-burger , is an unusual phrase used to describe people on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum who are single-minded perfectionists with very poor social skills and a very literal interpretation of the world around them. For most, the t...
April 1, 2010 14:25:30
Frogs can predict earthquakes up to 5 days days before they happen. They sense the release of radon gases and charged particles that are released from deep Earth movements before quakes strike. They use these as a form of earthquake early-warning-system and leave their colonies for higher ground...
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...
November 16, 2008 14:54:52
The 13 astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) are again faced with plumbing problems after the main on-board, Russian-built toilet has broken down. NASA ground control advised the crew to hang an "OUT OF ORDER" sign on the door and use the one remaining space toi...
July 5, 2009 16:32:41
What is the 6th number in this math sequence? 1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ____ ??? It is said that engineers take 3 minutes to solve this, architects 3 hours and doctors 6 hours, physical therapists 20 minutes, yoga instructors 5 minutes, retired folks, 14 minutes, pharmacists 4 minutes, fraud investigat...
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...
September 30, 2008 20:46:44
KANGAROO FARTS & GLOBAL WARMING
Farts from farm animals make 25% of all world's greenhouse gasses. All farm animals eat grass, hay, and seed and digesting all this creates a gas in their stomachs called Methane. Cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs, and horses all fart Methane gas - but not Kangaroos! Anyone who has spent time on a f...
November 23, 2008 17:02:38
By Don Hinrichsen - A new teen magazine called "LOVE" is stirring up the youth in Mongolia, the least populated country in Asia. Like the rest of this vast continent, Mongolia is rapidly urbanizing. One third of the country’s 2.5 million people live in the c...
April 28, 2010 20:59:15
Made in Denmark - The Story behind timtim
What's happened is the past , what will happen is the future . When the past meets the future, there's nothing, cause there's no room in between. How do we know if we even are really here? The thing that comes to mind is that maybe I should clean my fingernails! When I was 14, one of my teache...
April 25, 2010 13:04:53
Murals DC: Graffiti Art in Obama's Backyard
The Murals DC project started by Jim Graham, a Washington DC City Council Member, uses known DC graffiti artists to mentor and train young taggers, instilling a sense of community and pride in their work. It is an effort to replace illegal graffiti with artistic works, to revitalize sites with...
December 22, 2009 21:40:31
New Years on Jan 1st is a tradition based on the Gregorian calendar that started in Venice in 1522. It spread to the Roman Empire in 1544, and was accepted by the British Empire in 1752. But there are other calendars and New Years on different dates and for different year counts! ...
November 13, 2009 14:32:28
Download the timtim 2010 Holiday Calendar. Click here to go straight to the CALENDAR CATEGORY where you will find each of the 12 months of the year illustrated with a colorful timtim drawing. Many of the calendar drawings like the one shown here for the month of October can also be found on ...
March 4, 2010 22:14:47
St. Patrick's Day is named after Saint Patrick who died in 461 AD. He is the patron saint of Ireland and the day of his birth, March 17th, was made a Catholic holiday in the early 1600's and an official Irish public holiday in 1903. Each March 17th, St. Patrick's Day parades take place all arou...
January 4, 2010 05:42:29
Snoopy from the 'Peanuts' comic strip was created by Charles Schulz. Schulz had a philosophy about life that came out in his work and can best be summed up with the following quiz. Try this out and you'll get the point. 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Na...