Problem of the Week
Puzzle 10
A picture frame that usually sells for $50 is on sale for 5% off. If a 5% sales tax were added to the sale price, what amount would you pay?
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Raising Happy Kids- CHILDREN’S HEALTH PODCASTS
- A Puff Of Controversy Over Inhalable CaffeineThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has questions about the safety and legality of AeroShot, the inhalable caffeine product released last month. So does the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Whooping Cough Vaccine Recommended For SeniorsAn expert panel is expanding an earlier recommendation that seniors be vaccinated if they have contact with very young infants. Now just about all seniors will be candidates for vaccination. Adults and teens have been on the recommended list for years already.
- Can Gardening Help Troubled Minds Heal?Psychiatrists have long claimed that gardens hold healing powers for mental illness. Now, scientists are exploring a new field called horticultural therapy for everyone from troubled youth to veterans. But just how gardens affect the brain remains mainly a mystery.
- Lights, Action, Drinking: Movie Scenes Tempt Teens To BingeTeenagers who see drinking scenes in movies are more likely to start drinking, and to binge drink themselves, according to a new study. Drinking features in almost all movies, even in many rated for children.
- More Children Struggle With Gender Identity DisorderThe March issue of the medical journal Pediatrics features an editorial looking at gender identity disorder in children. Pediatricians apparently are seeing more young patients who express an interest in changing their gender.
- A Puff Of Controversy Over Inhalable Caffeine
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- Science Friday (Click for more project ideas)
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- Escape!
The walls are closing in, you've got no way out... and then, suddenly, you escape! This hour, stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.
- Shorts: Killer Empathy
Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? In this short, Jad and Robert talk to an entomologist about the risks, and the rewards, of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes.
- Shorts: Wake Up and Dream
In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years.
- Escape!
- Info on the Health Care Debate
