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From the Beeb: The ‘youngest headmaster in the world’ .
At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He’s a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family’s backyard, where he runs classes for poor...
Now this, this is amazing. It’s a BBC article about what William Kamkwamba did when he was a teenager in Malawi.
Unable to attend school, he kept up his education by using a local library.
Fascinated by science, his life changed one day when he...
From the Telegraph: Anglo-Saxon hoard is ‘unprecedented’.
The Staffordshire Hoard is by some distance the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, in terms of both the number of items (over 1,300) and the total mass (around 5kg of gold, and 1.3kg...
From Wired: 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth.
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
To produce this unique golden...
