by McKenna Gordon | Feb 10, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, HISTORY, SCIENCE
As an Australian-Canadian the Fahrenheit temperature scale always seemsed a bit arbitrary. I mean why does water freeze at 32 degrees? And what exactly does zero represent? According to many sources the Fahrenheit scale was defined by setting zero degrees equal to the...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 10, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, HISTORY, INSPIRATION
Escaping slavery; risking everything to save her family; leading a military raid; championing the cause of women’s suffrage; these are just a handful of the accomplishments of one of America’s most courageous heroes. Janell Hobson details Harriet Tubman’s many...
by McKenna Gordon | Feb 3, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, HISTORY
How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became the most widely spoken word in the world. “OK is thought to be the most widely recognized word on the planet. We use it to communicate with each other, as well as our technology. But it actually started out as a language...