Dr. Diane Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, a consulting and media-based business, as well as the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business. She has authored multiple books, including Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential, and The Power of Perception: Eliminating Boundaries to Create Successful Global Leaders. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® and the Perception Power Index, assessments that help leaders understand their blinders in perception and curiosity. Thinkers50 Radar chose Diane as one of the top minds in management and leadership. She was named to Global Leaders Today’s list of top leaders alongside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Sheryl Sandberg, and LeadersHum included...
Cranberry science experiments are fun to include in your homeschool during November or December. You’ll love these super easy ideas. All you need is a bag of fresh cranberries and a few simple kitchen supplies. For extra fun, I’ve added a few books to kick-start the learning. They are some of my favorite Thanksgiving and Christmas picture books that just so happen to make great connections to seasonal cranberries! This post contains affiliate links. Cranberry Picture Books Using living literature alongside learning can offer children a wonderful perspective and gently teach concepts. While these three books don’t share scientific information about cranberries, they do help introduce cranberries to children in a roundabout way. That opens doors for excitement about the...
Vendor: Thames & Kosmos Type: Science Price: 65.99 Discover the science of living things with this complete introductory microscope kit. The beautifully illustrated experiment manual guides you through observations of many living specimens found in and around your home: onion cells, pond water, chloroplasts, plant stem cross sections, microorganisms, mouth cells, meat cells, different types of hair and fur, dust mites, bugs, pollen in honey, and much more. The kit includes slides, cover slips, and many helpful tools. Learn how to use these tools to prepare slides and how to use the microscope to examine them. Investigate how the lenses in a microscope bend light to magnify images. When the ocular lens, or eyepiece lens, works together with the three...
Many of us experiment with alcohol during our teen years, myself included. For most, it’s a rite of passage and nothing more. We go on with our lives, and alcohol doesn’t become a problem. But for others, teen drinking can turn into an alcohol problem. Physicians in emergency rooms see kids with blood alcohol levels four to five times the legal limit for driving. “At that level, 50% of people die,” says Dr. Mary Claire O’Brien, an emergency medicine physician and assistant professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. She points out that those levels were only seen in chronic alcoholics ten years ago. Some kids who want to get drunk fast to ease their...
Poinsettias are lovely house plants often sold around Christmas time. They have dark green leaves and red ‘bracts’ surrounding the flowers in December and January. Bracts are specialised leaves. After January, the red bracts fall out and the plant is green until the next November/December. Poinsettias need to be kept in bright conditions and not overwatered. How to make poinsettia turn red Poinsettias only form flowers when they don’t receive light for at least 12 hours a day, but they also need bright light during the day so they can make enough energy to grow. Poinsettias are photoperiodic. The longer periods of darkness in winter stimulate the formation of flowers. The red bracts don’t contain much chlorophyll ( responsible for...
