Cecilia Payne was the first person to earn a PhD in astronomy. A Russian-American astronomer, Otto Strauve said hers was “the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy.” Her mother refused to pay for her higher education, so she worked hard and won a scholarship to Cambridge University in England. But when she finished… Continue reading Chicken Heroes: Celia Payne
Category: Health
Talk About Your Feelings
Good mental health means children can develop the inner strength to cope with whatever life throws at them and grow into well-rounded, healthy adults. Even though most children and young people grow up mentally healthy, more of them have problems with their mental health today than they did 30 years ago. Children can have mental… Continue reading Talk About Your Feelings
Time for a check up? Meet your Dentist
How do you know when it is time to ditch the tooth fairy and visit your dentist? Dr Saul Konviser explains…
In Children’s Books, Everything is Connected
There’s a very large opportunity to create, publish and sell books about all kinds of people, rather than just one. This could be an exciting direction to take because everything is possible.
The secret history of Chocolate
We all know that chocolate is delicious. But do you know where it comes from? How it is made? Chocolate is made from cacao beans, which are the seeds of the cacao tree. The history of chocolate begins in Mesoamerica and dates back to 350 BC. The Aztecs believed cacao seeds were the gift of Quetzalcoatl,… Continue reading The secret history of Chocolate