A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there’s a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.
100 Little Secrets Why Dogs Make Us Happy - The Science Behind What Dogs Lovers Already Know
Why do people who have dogs live happier, longer, and more fulfulling lives? Sociologists and veterinarians have spent years investigating the positive effects that dogs have on people's health and happiness yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy - Insects
The Science Guy points out the difference between insects and bugs in this installment of his award-winning series. Bill Nye utilizes his special affinity for communicating with kids, and when he refers to insect eggs as the "little round things" and the larval stage as "like a worm," adults may cringe, but kids remember. His student helpers visit an insectorium during Bill Nye the Science Guy: Insects, and Nye discusses the little suits of armor that insects sport.
What's the ol' purple and green dinosaur up to now? Why, he spots Baby Bop at the gazebo with a bunch of books set up, so she can play librarian. This gets Barney in the mood to share some classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, where the kids as well as BJ and Baby Bop play the characters. The settings of the following fairy tales and nursery rhymes take place in either the park or the caboose: The Shoemaker & the Elves, The Sharing Hen, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Boy Blue/Old King Cole, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Tortoise & the Hare, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Girl Who Cried Wolf (not Boy in this children's DVD), Three Little Kittens, and Jack & the Beanstalk.
Here is a compendium of also-rans and never-made-its. We're talking Betamax, the Sinclair C5, puffball skirts, sporks, the Millennium Dome... and countless other products that never quite cut it.
