It was a very kindhearted deed, but not something that would be reported in the news Karine Gombeau, a French tourist visiting New York City, saw a homeless man looking through a garbage container. She had just left a restaurant and was carrying some...
Want to know which of your favorite singers has the best set of pipes? The people at the site concerthotels.com (an online booking site for hotels near concert venues) have done the research and created a really cool interactive chart to show you jus...
For more than 20 years, Kazuhito Kosaka was trying his best to make it as a Japanese comedian. He was successful enough to be in a 7-11 commercial, but he wasnt a major star. But his life changed in just 45 seconds. Kazuhito Kosakas stage name is Pik...
Grace VanderWaal was just like any other New York 12-year old until she and her mother decided to let her try out for the NBC television competition, Americas Got Talent. Grace had written songs since she was three years old, so unlike most child per...
How do you study English? There are a lot of people who find studying just one language hard , but how about 23? Timothy Donner, a 17-year-old high school student living in New York City has earned a lot of respect these days at his high school and h...
Chris Colaluca of Mohawk Junior High School in Pennsylvania is not your typical student. Chris suffers from spina bifida and is not able to attend class in person. But this does not stop him. He is able to take classes thanks to his robot. The robot...
Several Chinese middle schools have decided to snip young romances in the bud with the establishment of new rules for their students. In some cases, the rules can be quite vague. For instance, one school rule simply states that there can be no close...
If you are reading this article and it is not in your native language, then you may be on the road to a healthier brain. According to new research learning to speak another language can delay the onset of dementia by five years. The research was carr...
This post is a little different from my usual ones, but I thought you might enjoy these puzzles as much as I did. Before you begin you may want to go over the vocabulary in the list below. Also, please try these without writing anything down or looki...
Often readers ask me what the best way to study the material in this site is. As you may realize, there are many approaches and what works for some may not work for others. However, here is one way that many people have found to be effective. 1. Care...
In a noisy restaurant when you want to get a refill or the check, have you ever used a hand signal to communicate with the waiter? Sometimes, it is just the best way to get what you want. Restaurant staff dont want you to know this, but they use hand...
There is an island in the Bay of Bengal between Myanmar and Indonesia. It is called North Sentinel Island but the inhabitants of the island dont know that. In fact, the Sentinelese people know almost nothing of the outside world. They have never seen...
What did you do on May 12th of this year? If you are like most people in Japan and America, chances are you spent the day with your mother. (In Korea they celebrate Parents Day on May 8, in Norway Mothers Day is in February, and many other countries...
Iceland Airwaves is a super hip, long weekend music festival that dominates the festival scene each year. Its been around since 1999 and the name comes from its first location an airplane hangar. Part of what makes this festival so special is the unt...
Just north of Osaka, Japan, there is a wonderful location for enjoying the autumn colors. It is known as Minoh Quazi-National Park. park is best known for a beautiful waterfall, wild monkeys and an abundance of maple trees. And the maple leaves are m...
