Holistic Tutoring Academy

04/22/2018

Playing with the elements can be fun, but don't get carried away.

04/03/2018

Our native bumblebees are vital to pollinating many plants that honeybees just can't help.

03/17/2018

Birds are amazing. This European songbird picks up human tunes and improves them.

03/15/2018

Fascinating new discoveries about very early human cultural and technology development.

New finds from Kenya suggest that humans used long-distance trade networks, sophisticated tools, and symbolic pigments right from the dawn of our species.

01/20/2018

I was able to explore some of the Paris catacombs when I lived in France for a summer, parts of which were used by royalists to escape the revolution, or by rebels to keep away from the n***s. It's remarkable what hides beneath the surface of our cities, unknown by most.

Largest catacomb system in the world.

08/25/2017

“The tablet not only contains the world’s oldest trigonometric table; it is also the only completely accurate trigonometric table, because of the very different Babylonian approach to arithmetic and geometry. This means it has great relevance for our modern world. Babylonian mathematics may have been out of fashion for more than 3,000 years, but it has possible practical applications in surveying, computer graphics and education. This is a rare example of the ancient world teaching us something new.”

Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers

06/16/2017

Always something new to discover. Keep looking.

A monthlong expedition into one of the deepest, least-documented places on the planet discovered hundreds of unknown species. The finds included a "faceless fish" undocumented there since 1873.

05/14/2017

See? Math is fun!

= MischiefManaged =

03/26/2017

Science! The headline is a little misleading, but this is a very important development. This lets scientists grow any type of tissue, not just heart, on a scaffold that has built in veins to allow essential blood supply to delicate new tissue.

Using the plant like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart, which may one day aid in tissue regeneration.

01/07/2017

This August we'll be just miles from adv event of a lifetime. Take August 21 off and drive just an hour north to be in the center of the path of a full solar eclipse.

Get ready North America, the Great American Eclipse is only seven months away. On 21 August this year, the first total solar eclipse since 1979 will cast its shadow across the majority of the US.

09/09/2016

We offer private tutoring in math and science, as well as other subjects. As your student gets back to school, remember: when it comes to numbers, there's a thin line between a numerator and a denominator.