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On the remote Isle of Eigg, energy options are limited. When faced with the choice of a diesel generator or no power at all, John, a postman, decided to generate ...
The Last Ice Merchant
For over 50 years Baltazar Ushca has harvested the glacial ice of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo.
Using Cell Phones To Stop False Rumors, Before They Lead To Ethnic Violence
“Are You Sure” is a service designed to quell violence via text message, by confirming or denying rumors of ethnic strife.
Boring Textbooks
Rev. A. B. Fuller, of Boston, very energetically opposed the idea that a teacher should not aid a pupil. Otherwise, they might as well not have a teacher.
The Ottoman Empire’s Maps of the United States
What did the United States look like to the Ottomans?
Cat Mosques
There is a mosque in Damascus called Masjid al-Qitat. “Qitat” means “cats” in Arabic. In 1267, it was donated under Islamic law as a charitable foundation established to protect cats ...
How 17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese
Centuries ago, in England, lots of cheeses had a natural yellowish-orange pigment.
The K’iche’ Word For Trench Coat Contraband
b’ejekoteem = caminar llevando muchas cosas dentro de la ropa = to walk carrying many things underneath one’s clothes
“Their Cortés and Our Cortés”
Writing in Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua) in the second half of the sixteenth century, the conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo (ca. 1495-1584) recalled one of his early encounters with ...
Resources For Parent Educators
Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Parent Educators
Many features of our present-day society originated in the lands we call the ancient Near East, a vast and varied area from Turkey to the Indus Valley of present-day Pakistan ...