Teens Take Pictures of Space With A Balloon

The group designed and launched a balloon kitted out with a Nikon Coolpix and custom built electronics, intending to get some shots at 30,000 feet. Well exceeding their expectations, the $80 digicam (held aloft by a $60 latex balloon) reached over 100,000 feet, at which point it lost inflation and fell to the earth.
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Conquest of the Middle East

Can you name how many times the Middle East has been conquered or changed hands over the past 5000 years?  Maps of War has a 90 video showing the repeated conquests of the middle east of the past 5000 years.  A great, short video for anyone interested in either history or the middle east. Maps of War - Imperial History of the Middle East

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200 Free Online Classes To Learn Anything

Online Educational Database has compiled a list of 200 free online classes.  Examples include three-dimensional modeling and animation using the Open Source software Blender, learning and applying HTML, network security, and Adobe Flash. For the more adventurous there are courses on quantum mechanics, first year Chinese, modern poetry and more 200 Free Online Classes To Learn Anything. So don't let high college costs slow you down when it comes to learning something new. 200 Free Online Classes To Learn Anything.

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Ten Rules For Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott
  1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
  2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
  3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
  4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson
  5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
  6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
  7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
  8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
  9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
  10. You will forget all this.

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