7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

For teens, life is not a playground, it's a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn't any walk in the park, either. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide "a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily."
How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life-changing decisions. As a parent, you are responsible to help them learn the principles and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life.

10 Great Subtraction and Addition Apps for Kids

Practice makes perfect, and budding mathematicians can build their subtraction skills and addition ability with a range of apps.
If the idea of mixing math with summer fun horrifies your kid, she may reconsider after playing a math-centered (and entertaining) app. Competitive kids can test themselves against others in multiplayer contests, and outdoor types might find they enjoy mixing math and gardening. Get your reluctant mathematician excited about numbers again with these top ten subtraction and addition apps.

Recomended Book for Fifth Grade

Hint: Non-fiction is real reading, too!  Mix in magazines, cookbooks, the sports pages and biography to make reading a real-world activity and not just homework, and to keep reluctant readers in the swim.

Recomended Book for Fourth Grade

Hint: Big kids have vistas that are expanding; give them historical fiction to imagine the past, and fantasy to imagine the future.

Recomended Book for Third Grade

Hint: Don’t fear series books!  Most lifelong readers have these on their reading menu as children.

Recomended Book for Second Grade

Hint: A mix of picture books and short chapter books will help keep your new reader feeling confident!

Recomended Book for First Grade

Hint: Turn on the closed-captioning feature of your television set to expose your child to sight-word vocabulary, even when you aren’t reading from books.

Recomended Book for Kindergarten

Hint: Reading early doesn’t mean reading better! Take your time and savor the world of picture books. Here's a list of books to get started:

Robert Doisneau on Google Doodle

Robert Doisneau, with his Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville)

That was a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes.

The Galloping Horse

The series of galloping horse images on the Google home page that seems to spring to life at the press of the play button is there as it is the 182nd birth anniversary of Eadweard J Muybridge (the J stands for James), the man behind the first ever galloping horse moving image (also the American bison cantering and more).

LMC, The Little Man Computer

The imagination of a little creature operating the computer by itself...

The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer. The LMC is generally used to teach students, because it models a simple von Neumann architecture computer - which has all of the basic features of a modern computer.This instructional model was created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965.

The History of Java | Polymerize

Java starts from the company called Sun Microsystems. That company's research project code-named Green in 1991 is the beginning of Java. There are predictions that the microprocessor would be used widely in electronic equipment. Because of the wide range of microprocessor, it needed a programming language that can run on all of the microprocessor.

Ubuntu One, Vodafone Curated App Store | Polymerize

Vodafone chooses Ubuntu One for their App Select store...

In late 2011 Vodafone launched their boutique app store for Android named Vodafone AppSelect. The store is available across Europe and takes the hassle out of searching.

Ubuntu One team can finally announce that their hugely popular Ubuntu One Files app has been selected by Vodafone for their curated app store. It’s now available to download via the Vodafone store in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Russia, Italy, Greece and Portugal.

Rainbow Lorikeet Beats the Beauty of Twitter Bird? | Polymerize

The image of rainbow have been reflected on bird?

The Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) is unmistakable with its bright red beak and colourful plumage. Both sexes look alike, with a blue (mauve) head and belly, green wings, tail and back, and an orange/yellow breast. They are often seen in loud and fast-moving flocks, or in communal roosts at dusk.

Athens City, Full of History | Polymerize

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European continent.

Ubuntu One Now Available for Windows | Polymerize

Ubuntu One now works on Windows!

It’s been a long time coming but today Ubuntu team are thrilled to tell you that the much anticipated Ubuntu One official client for Windows is now available for download. A question we get asked a lot is why an Ubuntu One Windows client?

Al-Khuwarizmi | Polymerize

The big invention from Al-Khuwarizmi, source of some math formulas...

The term algorithm, probably is not some strange line to us. Judging from the origins he said, the word 'algorithm' has a rather strange history. People just find a word that means the process of counting algorism with Arabic numerals. Someone been named 'Algorist' if he calculated using Arabic numerals. The linguists try to find the origin of this word, but the results are unsatisfactory. Finally, historians of mathematics found the origin of the word is derived from the name of the famous Arab writer, Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khuwarizmi read the west into algorism.

Ubuntu One | Polymerize

So you can access your personal cloud wherever you are in the world....

Ubuntu One is the personal cloud that brings your digital life together, so you can enjoy your content, your way, wherever you are. With our suite of cloud services including storage, sync, sharing and streaming - you have immediate access to your music collection, favorite photos, videos, important documents and more, at any time and from any device.

The Solar System Adds More Planet? | Polymerize

So, what's up with that? Is our solar system actually growing new planets?

What most people have known as a nine-planet solar system may soon grow to include 12 planets or more. Well, it is not exactly as they thought. Although it is true that astronomers are constantly discovering new bodies in space, within and beyond our solar system, an official definition of "planet" may allow others to be added to the planetary family. 

Aristotle, The Great Teacher of the Great Student | Polymerize

Aristotle, (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greece philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander. He wrote a variety of different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethnic, biology and zoology. Along with Socrates and Plato, he is considered to be one of the three most influential philosophers in Western thought.