Collection 1

• A Barrel of Energy
• A bug that can walk on water
• Allergies
• Atoms are everywhere
• Beware of taking yourself too seriously
• Black-faced monkeys
• Body’s lymphatic system – the vehicle of the immune system
• Calculus: Mouth, Not Math
• Cells -- composition, stability, and transportation
• Daydreaming: It's Not for the Lazy
• Does diet play a part in preventing breast cancer?
• Earliest known civilizations
• Earth’s magnetic shield
• Employees Who Laugh, Last – personal and corporate benefits of laughter
• Erie Canal, USA
• Fiber and its amazing health benefits
• Florida used to be part of Africa
• Glacial Handiwork in USA
• Global Warming
• How basic physical units of length, mass and time were defined
• How do different kinds of music affect plant growth?
• How much newspaper must be recycled to save one tree?
• How was the inch developed?
• Human Time and Geologic Time
• Intuition: Tools that Tap Your Inner Voice
• January 1: The first day of the Gregorian year
• Languages of the World 
• Loneliness and Health
• Mammals that lay eggs and suckle their young
• Medicine – during 1st to 16th Centuries
• Originof names “Europe” and “Asia”
• Our Fishy Family Tree?
• Quantum mechanics – the science dealing with the behavior of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale.
• Remora or Suckerfish
• Restless Earth
• Some North American Bird Proverbs …
• Some of the catastrophic world events during 1968 and 1969
• Stress Rating Scale
• The Balkan States
• The Battle of Wounded Knee
• The Father of Film
• The First Computer Programmer
• The left and right hemispheres of a human brain – they resemble two minds working together
• The reason mourners wear black clothes in the Western world
• The Science of Astronomy – from the earliest known recordsto the Middle Ages
• The seven deadly sins and virtues …
• The smallest country on earth
• The Start of History
• The World Bank and the IMF
• The world’s highest peak on land
• Tolstoy and the End of Life
• What do you mean by that? -- "A hair-raising experience"
• What kinds of additives are in gasoline and why?
• What sounds can we hear?
• What’s in a Face? -- South American king vulture
• What's Your Learning Style?
• When did globalization begin?
• Who invented the computer mouse?
• Who said English was easy to learn?!!