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This is a print showing San Francisco Harbor in 1848. There’s a little smattering of houses and a few boats in the water. It looks pretty peaceful, and it was. San Francisco only had about a thousand residents, and California had only newly become a U.S. …

Okay, welcome to the championship round of the XXX National Geographic Bee! Out of 2.6 million students, 54 of the country’s brightest young geographers made it here to Washington, D.C. The top 10 earned their place to compete today, and now we’re down to…

All right, now let’s tackle part C. Use quantitative reasoning, including equations as needed, to develop an expression for the new final position of the block. Express your answer in terms of D. All right, I’m going to set up a little table here for par…

After 100 years of sex education appearing in schools around the globe, young people are more confused than ever. Many blame this on political agendas, which they believe stand in the way of a student’s right to know. It’s profoundly shocking that you wou…

The habit of drinking is deeply ingrained in Western culture. Being drunk is often seen as a blissful state in which our sorrows are washed away, and exchanged for courage and an extraordinary ability to be merry and happy. Yes, alcohol loosens the inhibi…

Africa is where I sport up; it’s a place that completely fills me with excitement. I enjoy the heat, the thorns, the smells. To me, it’s all hugely evocative. African wildlife is so diverse; 6:18 is such a movement, such a lot of character. All these thin…