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Travel Writers' Guide: 50+ Best Science Museums Around the World

ShareThisOne of the questions I hear most often (besides how to teach your kids to love art) is how to combine science and travel. I have two words: Science Museums! We love them, we visit them...

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Wanted: Amazon Orchid Bee Wranglers!

Featured 2 ShareThisWhat do you do with a bug net, a vial of wintergreen essential oil, cotton swabs, and push pins, when you are in the middle of the Amazon rainforest? If you are an orchid bee...

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Spring Break 2014: Wet and Wild in the Amazon

Featured 2 ShareThisAs students return to their classrooms following Spring break, many will share their stories of beaches with friends and family.  But for thirteen students from the Derryfield...

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Discovering An Ancient Food and Appreciating the Native Roots of A Local...

ShareThisIn the span of just a few months in 2013, I discovered a new food and gained appreciation for a local food I’d been taking for granted.read more

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What do you do if you are a 3rd grader who desperately wants to visit a...

Featured 2 ShareThisWhat do you do if you are a 3rd grader who desperately wants to visit a rainforest?read more

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How to get an A+ in Amazon 101

Featured 2 ShareThisBags are packed, equipment checked, guidebooks read and re-read. We are ready! We already know more than the average Joe about the Amazon.  If we were preparing for a test, we’d...

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Life-changing Summit for Girls in Peru

Featured 1 ShareThisI started the organization, Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self (The Advice Project), to support the empowerment and education of teen girls through a series of workshops and...

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Tiny Bear Explores Big Questions in the Amazon!

Featured 2 ShareThisHow can the Amazon, which holds 1/5 of all of the world’s fresh water, have a lack of clean, drinkable water? This is just one of the questions an intrepid bear named Bella set out...

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A Bird on Water Street

ShareThisToo often, history goes by the wayside when we're inundated with fresh news. But really, history - and life - are composed of small moments, built layer by layer. I was a teen when my cousins...

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Conservation and Education at the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium

ShareThisEach summer, countless visitors across the country enjoy taking their families to zoos and aquariums all across the United States. There’s something about watching wild animals that’s...

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A Traumatic Blow

ShareThisBy throwing grenades and shooting harpoons, whaling boats hope to hit whales enough to make a traumatic blow. Unfortunately when you’re on a swaying boat trying to hit a moving target, more...

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Study Abroad Program Explores Dolphin Research, Science Communication

ShareThisA group of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi students spent the summer in Riviera Maya in the only program in the nation that blends dolphin research and hands-on animal care to become...

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Amazon Apprentices: Mentoring Inquiry in the Rainforest Canopy

Featured 2 ShareThisWhat do one tropical canopy researcher, a Minnesota teacher, and a bunch of teenagers have in common? On the surface, not much. But dig a bit deeper, or rather, climb a bit higher,...

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Farming, Friends, and Fried Bologna Sandwiches

ShareThisEvery once in a while, you come across a book filled with such goodness, love, and kindness that it not only makes you smile, but reminds you of the goodness in your own life and inspires you...

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Small Batch: Pickles, Cheese, Chocolate, Spirits and the Return of Artisanal...

ShareThisOne of the pure joys of travel is the food. Yes, that's right - food is a window to culture. Think about it - from the night markets of Southeast Asia to the traditional recipes of, well, any...

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The Ocean Enlightens Me

ShareThisThe tide enchants me with its consistency. The creatures fill my heart, and the unknown drives me. With each beat of the ocean’s heart, it sends waves rising up, crashing on the shore, or...

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Going on a Blind Date in the Amazon

Featured 2 ShareThisStanding on the banks of the Sucasari River as dusk began to settle around me, I strained to hear the sound of approaching boats over the cacophony of rainforest insects and frogs....

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Winging It in the Amazon

Featured 2 ShareThisIt’s all fun and games until you get birds involved…then mayhem, hilarity, and learning ensue!read more

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You NEED to See The World! How Peace Corps and Fulbright Changed My Life

ShareThisIn 2000, Mike Roman went on a life-changing venture through the Peace Corps to the island nation of Kiribati, a nation on the frontlines of climate change.read more

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Giving Love: #JustOneRhino

ShareThisIf you’re wondering about Valentine’s Day gifts, I have an idea (and this goes much further than today’s holiday).read more

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