Drinking Water: You’re doing it wrong…

Drinking Water: You’re doing it wrong…

NPR posted a story not too long ago about the “myths” behind drinking water. Much of us have been told since a young age about the benefits of drinking at least eight glasses per day, or the benefits of water for our kidneys, and so on. Well, unfortunately...
Geography/History tool: Conflict history through maps!

Geography/History tool: Conflict history through maps!

When teaching history, one quickly discovers that good maps are hard to find that illustrate many of the aspects you are trying to teach. A new website, Conflict History, takes all known battles, small and large, and places them in a user-friendly timeline linked to...
“How to be a terrible graduate student”

“How to be a terrible graduate student”

The list below is meant to avoid becoming the “bitterest person” noted by Matt Groening above. 🙂 So… I was stumbling around the internet and came across a professor’s list of don’ts for graduate students. The list was apparently compiled...
Al Jazeera Broadcasting Live in HD

Al Jazeera Broadcasting Live in HD

Al Jazeera, a well respected news source based out of Doha, has always had some sort of live streaming capability for some time now. Recently, however, Al Jazeera has stepped up their services by providing Al Jazeera in 720p HD using YouTube. Al Jazeera is one of the...
English Premier League Live on your Roku DVP

English Premier League Live on your Roku DVP

There are many of us who use Roku that have been missing some of our live sports events on devices like the Roku (and others). However, TheNowhereMan over at the Roku Forums recently updated the PodTV channel to include Premier League soccer from FoxSoccer.tv streams...