Here’s to happiness, health and a very prosperous new year, well, for at least one person in New York who won a Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $425 million in the lottery’s first drawing of 2019.
Officials with New York Lottery said the winning ticket was sold at an automotive repair shop in Glen Head.
During the drawing on New Year’s Day, that ticket matched all five white-ball numbers (34, 44, 57, 62 and 70) and the gold Mega Ball (14), earning the estimated $425 million jackpot, or $254. Read More...
BBC IdeasTemas cortos para mentes curiosas25 septiembre 2021
Durante siglos, las gente ha buscado formas de potenciar su inteligencia, concentración y creatividad a través de los nootrópicos, también conocidos como estimulantes de la memoria o potenciadores cognitivos.
De hecho, si en este momento estás bebiendo un café, estás consumiendo una forma de nootrópico: la cafeína es un estimulante y famosa por su capacidad para despabilar. Pero los también llamados "medicamentos inteligentes" Read More...
If ever a profession lent itself to effortless dramatization, it’s teaching. Education, particularly at the high school level has everything a Hollywood studio could ask for: conflict, compassion, failure, triumph, scandal and, increasingly, danger. It’s no surprise, then, that Hollywood has been mining classroom culture for decades. But films about teachers are rarely known for their subtlety, especially not those set in low-income and predominantly black and Latino communities. Movies such as “Dangerous Minds,” “Freedom Writers” and “Lean on Me” draw their plots from assault and murder on school grounds, gang violence and drug deals in high school hallways and lone teachers bucking an apathetic system of colleagues and administrators to “save” students from the threats that await them in troubled homes and at-risk neighborhoods. Read More...