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ADULTS WRITE IN CURSIVE
Gen Xers and generations before learned that cursive handwriting is a critical tool for surviving the adult world. In the computer age, however, and amid discussions of a national Common Core,........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Education Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 13 x Sep 18, 2017
INSERT TWO SPACES AFTER A PERIOD
If you learned to type in the era of typewriters, or even word processors and early computers, chances are good you were conditioned to click the spacebar twice after every period to make........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Education Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 10 x Sep 17, 2017
ALBERT EINSTEIN FLUNKED MATH
Many subpar math students have been consoled by encouraging teachers who remind them that even Einstein -- history's most famous mathematical genius -- flunked math class. He did not. He........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Education Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 58 x Sep 19, 2017
NINE PLANETS ORBIT THE SUN
Science classes said our solar system has nine planets, but in 2006, tiny, distant, and icy Pluto was reclassified and lost its planetary status. It is now classified as a dwarf planet -- just........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Space Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 7 x Sep 20, 2017
I BEFORE 'E' EXCEPT AFTER 'C'
One of the most common and easy-to-remember rhyming spelling lessons is "I before 'e' except after 'c' or when sounding like 'a' as in........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Education Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 58 x Sep 20, 2017
YOU'LL NEED ADVANCED MATH IN LIFE
Year after year, legions of kids -- many of whom aren't mathematically inclined -- are forced to suffer through the chores of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry with the presumption........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Education Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 6 x Sep 17, 2017
NORMANDY WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR GERMANY
The bravery displayed by Allied troops on D-Day is undeniable, as is the historic impact of the battle. But up to 80 percent of German troops were killed by Russian soldiers in the East, and........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: History Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 10 x Sep 19, 2017
BEN FRANKLIN DISCOVERED ELECTRICITY WITH A KITE AND A KEY
One of history's most brilliant and prolific inventors, Ben Franklin is arguably most famous for flying a kite fixed with a metal key during a thunderstorm to harness electricity. That........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: History Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 55 x Sep 18, 2017
BLOOD IS BLUE IN THE BODY
Generations of children managed to leave school believing blood is blue until it touches oxygen, when it turns red. Blood is always red. Veins appear blue only because of how light is filtered........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Health & Body Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 43 x Sep 18, 2017
THERE'S NO GRAVITY IN SPACE
It's common knowledge that astronauts float because there is no gravity in space. Actually, there is gravity everywhere, including space, including the kind that keeps the moon in orbit........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Space Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 52 x Sep 20, 2017
YOU'LL NEVER WALK AROUND WITH A CALCULATOR
In most cases, getting caught with a calculator during a math test before the mobile era was the same as cheating. The logic? You have to know this stuff. After all, you're not just going........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Education Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 8 x Sep 17, 2017
HUMANS USE ONLY 10 PERCENT OF THEIR BRAINS
A persistent myth presumes that 90 percent of the brain lies dormant in humans, waiting for evolution to catch up, and leaves kids imagining what kind of telepathic super beings they could be........ read more - is it fact or myth? Category: Health & Body Sep 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 51 x Sep 18, 2017