Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
GeoSafari is one of the trademarked lines from Educational Insights, one of the more popular distributors of educational toys. While the GeoSafari Bug Scene Investigator (BSI) is no doubt a play on the popular CSI crime/drama television series, this is a pretty cool toy none-the-less. It's for ages 5 and ...
Posted in Educational Toys, Science Kits, Science Toys | No Comments »
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
While the Sony PlayStation 2 has relatively few games that could be considered educational, the gaming system has certainly stood the test of time and has plenty of games that are just plain fun. I had no idea how many games were out there (and still being released) until I ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I was recently shopping online for a Mother's Day gift and was pretty much overwhelmed by the choices and all the sites out there offering the "perfect" gift for the mother in your life. If you didn't shop online for Mother's Day this year, try a simple search for "mother's ...
Posted in Retail | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
I've been in the retail business for a while and know that it's a very very small percentage of customers who will take that extra step to rate a transaction with a store - be it online or brick and mortar. I'm going to give you one example of why ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Many of us have heard about the "Mitochondrial Eve," our earliest ancestor who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago. A Stanford University study, reported on today at CNN, has concluded that our species became precariously close to extinction about 60,000 years ago. Very interesting. Considering that we have almost ...
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