What is this job like? Without these workers, there would be no lights, no computers, and no TVs plugged into our walls. Electricians bring us electricity. They put in the wires that carry…
River BlindnessTropical DiseasesIntroductionLeishmaniasis: The Sand Fly's BugGiardiasis: A One-Celled WonderSchistosomiasis: Snail FeverAfrican Sleeping SicknessRiver Blindness River blindness is…
The 1 ton rover proves to be a huge success for NASA by Jennie Wood Here's one of the first images of Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. Photo Credit: NASA Related Links Space…
The Statue of Liberty (“Liberty Enlightening the World”) is a 225-ton, steel-reinforced copper female figure, 151 ft 1 in. (46.05 m) in height, facing the ocean from Liberty Island1 in New York…
“Holocaust” is the term describing the Nazi annihilation of about 6 million Jews (two thirds of the pre-World War II European Jewish population), including 4,500,000 from Russia, Poland, and the…
The comically inept British "ski jumper"
by Gerry Brown Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards Related Links 2010 Winter Olympics Memorable Olympic Moments Birth of the…
The Herminator's horrific spill in 1998
by Gerry Brown Hermann Maier after winning the Super G at Nagano, 1998 Related Links 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic Preview:…
HOW CAN LIFE EXIST ON OTHER PLANETS? SETIFIND OUT MOREExtraterrestrial life means life beyond Earth, or alien life. No life has been found on other planets in the Solar System, but it might exist…
HOW DO GLACIERS FORM? WHAT ARE ICE CAPS? ICEBERG FIND OUT MOREAt the poles and on high mountains, vast areas are covered in ice—in rivers of ice called glaciers, and in layers of ice called ice…
