“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest” - Benjamin Franklin In today’s workplace environment, earning a livable income with room for a schooling fund for your children often requires a bachelor’s degree, if not a master’s. Some medical professions require an additional decade in schooling post high school graduation. With undergrad tuitions … [Read more...] about Benjamin Franklin: The Idealist Educator
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North American Instruments Highlight
The history of traditional North American musical instruments is cosmopolitan based on their construction and development. For example, musical instruments used by Native Americans have resulted from pan-Indianism. Pan-Indianism is a movement that unified Native American culture with a common basis. As a result, the Native American was synthesized. While the Native American … [Read more...] about North American Instruments Highlight
Extraordinary Women in STEM: Spotlight on Lisette Titre-Montgomery
“We need more diverse ideas. We keep seeing the same thing over and over again.”- Lisette Titre-Montgomery Lisette Titre- Montgomery is a computer animator who has been working in video game development for over 14 years. Lisette has loved to draw ever since she was a small child and her passion for art grew into an … [Read more...] about Extraordinary Women in STEM: Spotlight on Lisette Titre-Montgomery
Unweaving Africa: Angola’s Diamonds
Earlier this month, Australia’s Lucapa Mining Company unearthered a spectacular 404.2 carat diamond in the southern African nation of Angola. Analyzed as a rare Type IIa diamond, this virtually flawless D-color stone measuring 2.75 inches in length, is the 27th largest diamond found in the world, a fraction of the world's largest 3100 carat "Cullinan Diamond discovered in South … [Read more...] about Unweaving Africa: Angola’s Diamonds
Benjamin Franklin: The UPCP (Unpolitically Correct Publisher)
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” - Benjamin Franklin In the PC culture of the 21st century, practically any sentence one might form contains an error ranging from offensive to uneducated. American society lives in terror of the “wrong.” … [Read more...] about Benjamin Franklin: The UPCP (Unpolitically Correct Publisher)