Five Steps To Building A Log Raft
When I was a kid of about twelve, a group of friends and I decided to build a log raft. Suffice to say, the result was a disaster because there were no 12-year old engineers amongst us and the "raft" sunk. Had we had the internet at that time, we might have been able to find some instructions or at least had a firm grasp on how physics work with relation to water displacement. If you are still interested in building a raft, here are some simple instructions on how to put one together. Read more...
Five Novels That Have Been Banned From The Bookshelves
If you haven't heard the news, Mark Twain has been censored. Auburn University Montgomery professor, Alan Gribben, has "sivilized" Twain. He has removed the "N word" out of one of Twain's novels (which appears a total of 219 times) and has replaced it with the word "slave". According to Gribben, it helps to make the book less "injurious" and "hurtful". Not how Twain wrote it, but more politically correct. This isn't the first time this has happened. With the recent controversy of Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" being reprinted and censored, here is a list of other books that have been removed from Library shelves due to unsuitable words that may bother some readers. Some of them are rather ironic when it comes to the banning of books! Read more...
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