A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Forget “homeschooling” – that idea is so passé. Here comes “unschooling”:
The Biegler children live as though school doesn’t exist.
They’re at home all day, but they’re not being homeschooled. They’re being “unschooled.” There are no textbooks, no tests and no formal education at all in their world…
Continue reading… “Forget Homeschooling … “Unschool” Your Kids!”
The point of Shila Renee Mullins’s brain surgery was to remove a malignant tumor threatening to paralyze her left side. But Methodist University Hospital in Memphis also saw an opportunity to promote the hospital to prospective patients.
Continue reading… “Webcasting Surgeries To Promote Hospitals To Prospective Patients”
The film “Slumdog Millionaire,” in which a poor Indian boy wins a quiz show, won eight Oscars. The country is home to a man with a similar story — Harsh Nawathe, who became a millionaire in 2000 as a TV contestant. Today he is helping to educate the children of the slums.
Continue reading… “India’s Real ‘Slumdog Millionaire’”
Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org is an organization working to educate consumers and promote the green movement to eliminate the unsolicited delivery of Yellow and White Pages books. The site is aimed at starting a national movement to solicit the White/Yellow Pages industry to proactively stop the delivery of books or to begin moving legislation to mandate the stoppage of this activity. This movement should be similar to the National No-Call Registry that have stopped and/or decreased the number of unwanted solicitations telephone calls to consumers.
Continue reading… “Yellow Pages Goes Green: Movement Against Unsolicited Phone Book Delivery”
Asthmatic children whose parents have high expectations for their ability to function normally are less likely to have symptoms than other children dealing with the condition, according to a new study. Children also are more likely to use asthma controller medications appropriately if they have a routine for taking medicine and if their parents clearly understand how well symptoms can be controlled.
Continue reading… “Parental Expectations Affect Child’s Asthma”
Are patients swimming in a sea of health information? Or are they drowning in it?
Continue reading… “Knowledge Is Power When You’re Sick”
