The importance and benefits of play cannot be understated. Children’s lives are quite busy with the pressures of school and the constant influence of media. It seems the distractions are mounting with each generation. If you are concerned about whether your child is getting the right amount of playtime, read…
Click here to purchase on Amazon.com “Our Solar System” is a thoughtfully illustrated, large-format paperback book which effectively teaches the basics about our sun and the planets, the seasons of planet Earth, and the phases of the Moon. After completing the book, readers use the link in the book to…
YoungMindInteractive just released a new animated video created using an iPad Pro and the APP Procreate. Artist/director Jeffrey Wiener produced this 1 minute video on behalf of client Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park. Watch here: After The Storm: Invitation to a “No Show Gala” from Friends of VI…
Young Mind Interactive has been retained to develop an educational APP for Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park. The APP project is spearheaded by Development Director Tonia Lovejoy with the goal of offering visitors to the park a “ranger in your pocket” to assist with identification of plants and animals…
“Our Solar System” is now an illustrated Ebook for young early-to-advanced readers, covering our Sun and the planets, the seasons of planet Earth, and the phases of the Moon. After reading the Ebook, Play the game version of “Our Solar System, and use it as an assessment tool to test reading comprehension.…
Young Mind Interactive, Inc. has just released a spanish version of our STEM game “Our Solar System” entitled “Nuestro Sistema Solar”. This browser-based Digital Learning Tool combines a drag & drop game with an EBook to teach the basics of our solar system. This three-part HTML5 game fits on the iPad, and can be customized for…
Timeline PhotosYesterday the rehabilitation crew at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center showed me this X-ray of a snapping turtle that was admitted after being hit by a car. She was clearly on her way to nest but eggs weren’t the only thing that showed up on the screen. Just look at the size of that hook. It can be exceptionally difficult for turtles to navigate their way around us these days.
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Timeline PhotosWhen you’ve got a rare species that lives up to seventy years and doesn’t even reach sexual maturity until it is thirty years old, it can take many decades to see the effects of conservation action. Forty-one years ago the Loggerhead Sea Turtle was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (1978). Between 1988 and 1992, laws requiring turtle-excluder-devices (TED) in shrimp trawls started gaining steam. Around 2010, something interesting happened: the long-term decline of the species in the southeastern United States...stopped. In fact the number of nests observed in the region started increasing until they reached a peak in 2016; Georgia alone recorded nearly 3,300 nests, shattering modern records and a recovery milestone. But although Loggerheads nest a few times within a season, they take a break of 2-3 years before they’re ready again, and this results in a cyclical pattern. Fewer nests were observed in 2017 and 2018 but we have all been looking towards 2019 to help us know if 2016 was a fluke or whether the Loggerheads are continuing towards recovery.
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Georgia’s first nest was seen on April 26 on Cumberland Island, earlier than we expected. On the morning of May 6th, we found the first nest on Jekyll Island and they’ve been rolling in since then. We decided to start our night patrols last night and the team intercepted two females nesting and a third nest was detected this morning, putting our tally up to seven nests. Last year we didn’t even observe our first nest until May 14th. It’s still early, but it looks like it’s going to be a busy and potentially record-breaking year, and that is excellent news for Loggerhead Sea Turtles.
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Watch: Motorists in Brazil help massive anaconda across highway
Watch: Motorists in Brazil help massive anaconda across highway
Traffic on a busy Brazilian highway was brought to a screeching halt last week when a 10-foot anaconda slithered onto the roadway.Air pollution from corn production might contribute to thousands of deaths each year
Air pollution from corn production might contribute to thousands of deaths each year
A new study published this week in Nature found that America’s corn belt could contribute to thousands of air pollution deaths a year. Scientists at the University of Minnesota attributed around 4,300 premature American deaths annually to air pollution resulting from corn production. To do so, the...