The Squidoo team loves learning about great, new lenses. We especially love it when we learn about them because of blog entries and other online mentions. So we were doubly pleased when the lenses of Anthony Cerminaro hit our collective radar.
Not only have I been on the prowl for solid how-to lenses -- lenses that [...]

Evidence is mounting that sleep-even a nap-appears to enhance information processing and learning. New experiments by NIMH grantee Alan Hobson, M.D., Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., and colleagues at Harvard University show that a midday snooze reverses information overload and that a 20 percent overnight improvement in learning a motor skill is largely traceable to a late stage of sleep that some early risers might be missing.

I grew up on Lipton iced tea with lots of sugar, aka. "sweet tea" if you are from the South. After a three week visit to China, I have become a tea junkie. There's green teas, white teas, oolong teas, herbal infusions, and so much more. I am constantly on the lookout for great teas.

Easy English? Is that an oxymoron? You may think so now, but not after you've spent some time looking through my lens.

I love language, grammar and etymology. I read grammar books for fun. Yes, I'm a freak that way. But my freakishness is your gain because I'll point you in the right direction to help you learn how to write and speak better so that when you're writing that term paper or giving that speech, you won't sound like a certain president who can't even pronounce the word "nuclear."

When I was a kid, my friend Brett and I regularly made forts in his basement. Using bed sheets, couch cushions, milk crates and other readily available materials, we'd encamp under his family's ping pong table and wage war with a host of imaginary foes.
Then we'd go watch Dr. Who or The Young Ones.
The How [...]

One of my favorite aspects of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the Great Glass Elevator. So I was excited to come across Geoff Longman's lens about space elevators -- tethered trips into geosynchronous orbit.
Geoff offers links about space elevators and how they might work -- and then the lens gets really interesting.
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Rubberwood is often the most misunderstood species of wood in the furniture industry. The name itself invokes a variety of misconceptions to its features and its durability.

Rubberwood (also known as "white teak" or Para wood in Thailand) is the common name for the timber of Hevea brasiliensis.

A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. Essentially a dead body re-animated by unnatural means, the zombie creates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zombism" is sometimes used to refer to the condition or disease associated with being a zombie.