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Mobile phones change with almost every passing month. They are constantly being upgraded with new gadgets and functions and if you want to keep up with the times, you’re always spending more money to get yet another phone. So what are we, as consumers, to do with all those old, unfashionable technologies? Some might save them, others recycle them and in
Yesterday I shared a link about how we discount a huge component of Finland’s education system—equality over excellence—that may make it one of the most effective systems in the world. This news is old, but it does remain relevant.
Here are a few items of interests for this week.
“Equality over excellence” is a huge component of Finland’s education system that Americans are pretty much ignoring when we try to implement anything from the country’s policies into our own ideas about education.
Little Finland, Nevada, contrary to what images the name might evoke, is not a little part of an American town that happens to have been built up by migrating bands of Finnish people. In fact, it’s about the furthest thing from that. This wonder of nature, also referred to as Devil’s Fire or the Hobgoblin’s Playground, is a place of unique beauty in the Gold Butte region of the state, south of the city of
Here in the states, we associate the Easter holiday with a number of things.
When you think of a Nordic winter afternoon, "Good time for a baby to take a nap outside" may not be the first thought to spring to mind. But this is not just a tradition in Nordic countries, it's practically an institution. To the extent that many parents are surprised that parents in other countries WOULDN'T put their babies outside to sleep.
After another underwhelming Slope Style appearance, (finishing in 5th place) White did what Shaun White does best in the Winter X Games; he dominated the Super Pipe like nobody’s business.
