It's obvious that the list of benefits of playing sports instead of video games is endless. However, let's just go over a few to be sure the message is clear! Sports build teamwork, video games are solitary and competitive. Sports build athletic skill, video games build hand-eye coordination and quite often, violence. … read more

For many students standardized testing is a drama that creates high expectations, fear, anxiety and is also essentially quite boring. Being that it's considered such an important test in the American education system, students place an overly large amount of concern on what there scores are and what it will mean for th… read more

The textile field is often one of the first to invent and benefit from new technology. The most recent innovation has been to make a material that is just like spider web silk. Did you know that there is a type of spider silk called Dragline, which is tougher than the material used to make bulletproof vests! The proble… read more

We all know that NYC has a huge array of museums to offer visitors, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, to MOMA, the Guggenheim and other, more specific art museums, however, don't forget about cultural museums like the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. It documents how over 12 million lower class passengers went throu… read more

It is now known that water molecules are sensitive to the sounds, vibrations and even thoughts of what or whom is around them. Discovered by Japanese scientist Dr. Masaru Emoto in his studies of how water molecules react to music and other stimulating effects, this is a very interesting topic right now. Emoto claims th… read more