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Do you have children who do not brush their teeth properly before they go to bed – or, indeed, are you one of those objectionable and obnoxious offspring who refuse to take dental care seriou...

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This is dedicated to all of you reading this who may have grown up children still at home and so haven’t yet had the opportunity to experience the joys of empty nest syndrome.  It’s a beaut...

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A tiger swallowtail butterfly springs from a buddleia (often known as the butterfly bush).  Its beauty is simply breath-taking and it doesn’t end with the tiger.  The swallowtail is a fami...

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A look at the work of Dorothea Lange who captured the Great Depression through her lens and created some of the iconographic images of that era. At a time when women had had the vote for ...

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For game developers, getting into animation is exciting but can also be quite challenging, especially when it comes to figuring out how much it costs.  Whether you're working alone or with a g...

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  This is a short but wonderful video about a visit to the beautiful country of Morocco. If you planning to visit Morocco, I would highly recommend a watch of this short and snappy overview of w...

http://www.kuriositas.com/2024/04/200-hours-in-morocco-watch-this-video.html

In Tibetan Buddhim a Tulkou (that is the French spelling) is the reincarnation of a master.  The lines of the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas are considered Tulkou lines so perhaps this is where...

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Intelligent animation allows your imagination to take flight and this is exactly the case with Dream Child (Rêve d’enfant in French), produced by Papy3D Productions . The animation is sim...

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For months of the year they lie beneath deep snow, trapping it so that avalanches can be circumvented.  But when the snow melts, what is beneath is exposed to the world.  In the summer months...

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Life must be tough if you travel from village to village selling your one and only product, especially if that product is, simply, smoke.  Yet although our traveling salesman in The Smoke Selle...

http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/01/the-smoke-seller.html

Cólera quite rightly got amazing reviews on its release - and for more than just the reason that it is a one shot short film. Created by Spanish filmmakers Señor y Señora and starring one o...

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The humble dandelion. From your garden to almost the ends of the earth this small but conspicuous plant flourishes. Gardeners do not appreciate its presence, considering it a weed, even though ...

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We won’t be far off if we say that online casinos have overtaken all aspects of traditional casinos. For one, the convenience online casinos give compared to their in-house counterparts is ou...

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The gaming industry is witnessing a monumental shift that is redefining how games are played, developed, and experienced. CROSS-PLATFORM GAMING stands at the forefront of this transformation...

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Can we ever truly know our children? We can only hope so but sometimes parents can get things horribly, terribly wrong.  This animated short, directed by Naaman Azhari takes us in to the thoug...

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We have featured the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter together in all their shudderingly inconceivable horror but together they certainly explain away why we have never been contacted by inte...

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If you were wandering along a beach and came across one of these, would you know what it is?  Folklore tells us that it is a mermaid's necklace.  Who knows how she may have lost it and how it...

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Wakinyan is a Lakota word meaning thunder, or thunder spirit. The language is one used by native people of the American Great Plains.  Creator Martin Lisius photographed the content during th...

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Image Credit Flickr User Philipp Hilpert It's spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it jus...

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Bastei in German translates as bastion and you can easily see why this name was chosen for this towering rock formation, situated on the River Elbe near Dresden in the German Free State of Saxo...

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Presented here is a collection of 40 engaging "Do Now" activities tailored for GCSE English . However, they can be used for any English specification. I designed them to try and combat someth...

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How well acquainted are you with Star Trek? A few years ago, Tom Salinsky, a lifelong science fiction enthusiast, podcaster, and author, recognized that his knowledge of the franchise was lack...

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Makita has long been synonymous with quality, durability, and innovation in the world of power tools. With a wide array of offerings catering to both professionals and DIY enthusiasts, Makita...

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If you go down to Koekohe beach in New Zealand you can be sure of a big surprise. In front of you, scattered like enormous marbles from some long abandoned game between giants, are hundreds o...

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This is a superbly created piece of animation which captures the imagination. The world is monochrome until an invisible hand starts to color it in. Unfortunately, one animal is asleep and mi...

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