Beautiful Nature Photography

         This website features beautiful travel and adventure photography by Jerry Monkman. It is truly an inspirational collection of photographs from around the world. Due to copy right issues I can not show you these pictures on my site. I urge you to check out the site here. Also this site is listed under Environmental Science Education Resources tab above. This tab includes many many links of which I am still compiling.

Sources:
http://archive.ecophotography.com/gallery-list

Thesaurus of Emotions

        This emotional dictionary of words and synonyms based on their strength of feeling. An awesome chart, one to save.

Sources:

http://blogsold.psychcentral.com/adhd/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sheet-for-Emotions.jpg

Amazing Poetry: Lewis Carroll

        One of the many subject of my interest is poetry. I have a couple different posts I will be sharing with you about poetry. My favorite poems and so forth. Here is one I came across by Lewis Carroll. I picked it to post because not only are the words beautiful but the construction of the physical paragraph is stunning. 

Sources:

http://www.futilitycloset.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2009-05-18-square-stanza.jpg

90 Second History Lesson On the Middle East

        I found this website on StumbleUpon, and had to share it with those interested in education and furthering their minds. The website is a 90 second video of the empires that have ruled over the Middle East and what time period. It also covers time of independence. I highly recommend this to people, even if they have no interest in the Middle East. In the future I will be posting all sites like this one, and including this one under History in the Education Resources tab. Enjoy. :)

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

Evolution Poster

One to print out. Thank you Stumble.

How to get Educated Online For Free

Have you ever wondered if you could just take a class to learn but not for a degree? Is the cost stopping you? Learning can be an expensive hobby, but not when you find the right online resources. You want lectures from Stanford professors? Whole classes of lectures? A variety of subjects? You can find all this and more online.
Most people I know use YouTube to search for music videos, or to look at the latest new viral video. Did you know you can also use YouTube as a learning resource? Check out this video series I found on Human Behavioral Biology. The whole Stanford course! You do not even need a textbook, I’ve just been watching in sections each day and taking notes, exercising the mind.
This is not the only video series of a class online. Check out this website comprehensive list of free lectures online. Also as I come across more sites I will list them on the Education page, the tab next to Home above this article.


Sources:

http://freevideolectures.com/
http://www.youtube.com/?noredirect=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&feature=bf_prev&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

The Great Debate - Cannabis

   

      My personal feelings about the legitimacy of legalization aside, I think there is one thing we can all agree upon. Teens, and young adults who are still developing and making choices that affect their whole lives should not be smoking Marijuana. I stumbled into this article about a test recently done on adolescent and adult rats sets the stage for medical reasons why Marijuana is harmful to young minds that are still developing.
      During our teenage years is when our front parts of our brain really develop. This is a decision center of the brain. When teenagers make bad decisions it stems from here. It also affects some of our emotional outputs, making teenagers range from happy one minute to screaming the next. This test proves Marijuana does affect this development. If we legalized, regulated, and tested the over use of Marijuana in teens could diminish. This would protect the young minds of our future generations, and hopefully decrease teen suicide and adult depression.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19969082/