educational
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While Kids Teach Beauty And The Beast’s Belle How To Dance, This Doll Teaches Them How To Code
Having not seen the live-action remake just yet, it’s hard to know what changes Disney has in store for its new Beauty and the Beast film. But in addition to a love of books, a new Belle doll from Hasbro seemingly reveals the character’s newfound love of programming too.
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How The Apollo Astronauts Guided Their Ships With A Brilliantly Simple Telescope
Video: One of the most impressive aspects of the Apollo space program was how NASA worked around the limitations in computer power. The smartwatch on your wrist eclipses what the Apollo space craft’s computers were capable of, so NASA’s engineers often had to rely on clever ingenuity to solve difficult problems.
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This Website Can Teach You To Count Cards Like A Maths Genius
It turns out you don’t need to be a savant like Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, or an MIT mathematics prodigy in order to count cards. There’s a relatively simple approach that can give you a slight advantage over the dealer when playing Blackjack, and this site can help you master it.
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Digital Camera Sensors
Video: You don’t need to know enough about it to build one yourself, but a little knowledge of how digital cameras actually work can help improve your photography game. So if you’ve got an extra 13 minutes at your disposal today, watch this wonderful explainer of how a camera’s sensor works.