Month: October 2014

VIDEO via NGS: Food by the Numbers: Feeding Our Hungry Planet

By 2050, the world’s population will likely increase 35 percent. But is growing more food the only option—or even the best? National Geographic investigates the challenges and solutions to feeding everyone […]

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AUDIO via NPR: In ‘1493’ Columbus Shaped a World To Be

This 37 minute story is great for kids in a 1:1 environment, or for a different homework assignment. The author Charles C. Mann discusses Christopher Columbus docking in the ‘New World’ […]

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