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High-tech Toys for a Low-tech Price

Believe it or not, the holiday season is looming near and soon it’ll be time to start shopping around for gifts for your family and friends. True, the holidays can take a toll on your bank account, but there are ways to avoid this, especially when your kid rips open his expensive, new toy on Christmas morning only to accidentally ruin it five minutes later. Advanced technology has been popping up in children’s toys and gadgets this year, but the surprising and awesome part of this is that price tags are not being hiked along with it.

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Baby Gender Selection Methods

It’s natural for a father who already has three girls to want a boy next time. But should he be able to make that choice? Reproductive technologies exist to make sex selection a reality. However, many people believe that sex selection is ethically wrong. The UN reports, for example, that every day in India, 2,000 women abort a baby girl. Called feticide, this is a form of sex selection. When sex selection occurs for medical reasons, many people support the phenomenon.

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Why Our Daughters Need To Play More Video Games

Girls today are steering away from math, science and computers in record numbers.According to the U.S. Department of Education, the percentage of women graduates in computer science is at a 39-year low. In 2012, women in the U.S. earned only 19% of all math and computer science degrees (compared to 37% 20 years ago) and made up less than 25% of the workers in engineering and computer-related fields. Fewer than 10 percent …

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Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6 is the latest in a long string of fabulous Walt Disney Animation Studios movies. This action-packed comedy centers around a brilliant young under-achiever named Hiro Hamada who along with a group of genius friends and a robot named Baymax save the streets of San Fransokyo (love the name).  The absolute best part…

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15 Million Kids Learn To Code – In One Week

My 9-year-old came home from school last week, more excited than I’ve seen her all year. She flipped open my laptop and logged onto Code.org.Look what I made, she said proudly.She showed me a page that was split in half – the right side of the page was a colorful animation of a blue bowling ball rolling down a red hill, with a bright yellow sun in the background. The left side …