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„Made in Hongkong“ Auf der Leipziger Buchmesse hat der Schweizer Autor und Kabarettist aus seinem Großen Buch der Geschichten für Kinder vorgelesen, in dem die berühmte reiselustige Made natürlich nicht fehlen durfte. „Made in Hongkong“ oder „Der Granitblock im Kino“ - diese Erzählungen haben Eltern ihren Kindern bereits vor Jahrzehnten vorgelesen und noch immer machen die Geschichten von Franz Hohler Kindern wie Erwachsenen einen Riesenspaß. In dem neuen Buch hat Nikolaus Heidelbach sie wiederum ebenso hintergründig wie fantastisch und augenzwinkernd illustriert. Leseprobe: http://files.hanser.de/hanser/docs/20090224_29224151129-71_9783446233126.pdf

Die Europäische Union hat anlässlich des Safer Internet Day 2009 einen Spot zum Thema "Cyber-Mobbing" zur Verfügung gestellt, um auf dieses aktuelle Thema aufmerksam zu machen. Im Rahmen einer großen Kampagne ist der Film in allen Partnerländern des Safer Internet Programme europaweit zu sehen. Für die deutschlandweite Kampagne stellt klicksafe den Spot TV-Sendern und Online-Portalen kostenlos zur Verfügung. Ziel ist eine möglichst breite Streuung des Spots über die verschiedenen Kanäle. Diverse TV-Sender (z.B. RTL, SuperRTL, MTV, Viva) haben ihre Unterstützung zugesichert und werden den Spot im April 2009 verstärkt ausstrahlen. http://www.klicksafe.de

Make homemade marshmallows with this easy-to-follow recipe.

Die Bildungsbranche im Schatten der Wirtschaftskrise: Wie geht es weiter? Stimmen zur Lage, gesammelt auf der didacta 2009 von - Reinhard Koslitz, Geschäftsführer Didacta Verband - Andreas Baer, Geschäftsführer VdS Bildungsmedien - Peter Kniep, Geschäftsführer Verlagsgruppe Westermann, Schroedel, Diesterweg, Schoeningh, Winklers - Alexander Bickel, Leiter Vertrieb Deutschland Festo - Wolf-Rüdiger Feldmann, Geschäftsführer Cornelsen Verlag - Hartmut Becker, Sales Director Promethean - Andreas Klinkhardt, Geschäftsführer Julius Klinkhardt Verlag - Christian Lipkowski, Geschäftsleitung König Möbelwerke - Karl Slipek, Geschäftsführer Ernst Klett Verlag - Axel Haberer, Marketingleiter VS-Möbel

Watch More Motherboard shows: http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=11912224001 These simple words, followed by an office and a home phone number, usher one into the quiet landscape beyond it: a couple acres of nondescript, fenced-in land, and in the distance a shed, an abandoned trailer, a few trees, and some dirt paths. There are rows of green tarps covering bulky heaps on the ground. Yellow plastic sashes with CRIME SCENE written on them in black cordon off little areas here and there. On closer inspection, human skulls and assorted other bones are found strewn among the leaves, and soon it becomes clear that there are swarms of maggots doing their job on the remains. The human remains. The Anthropology Research Facility—or the Body Farm, as it has been nicknamed, much to the chagrin of its employees—is dedicated to the study of the rate of human decomposition. It’s a critical and still-emerging field of forensic science that helps to identify and lock up murderers and gives TV crime writers all their best material. Dr. Bill Bass, the facility’s founder, has twice the energy of a man half his age and possesses a warm, welcoming demeanor—not what one might expect from someone whose life’s work is dedicated to the study of rotting corpses. But Bass is all charm and smiles. When I met with him on the facility’s grounds in Knoxville, Tennessee, surrounded on all sides by bodies in varying states of decay, he answered questions about how he came to open the research center with undisguised and fresh enthusiasm. WATCH MORE ON VBS!

The most rotations of a human flag in 30 seconds is 40 and was achieved by Rebecca Peache (UK) on the set of Zheng Da Zong Yi - Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China, on 29 October 2007.

HISTORY™ UNVEILS PREDATOR X The two-hour special PREDATOR X premieres on HISTORY™ on Sunday, March 29 at 8pm ET/PT. On the remote archipelago of Svalbard, just 800 miles from the North Pole, a team of paleontologists from the University of Oslo Natural History Museum, have made a remarkable discovery. Buried beneath the icy landscape of the Arctic are the fossilized remains of a huge creature from the distant past. PREDATOR X is the story of a major discovery — what appears to be an entirely new species — of a massive and powerful predator. The scientific team must excavate it, determine its significance and try to rebuild it to see what it was like — as they discover the astounding power of which this creature was capable. PREDATOR X follows the expedition every step of the way, from painstaking field research to the astonishing find of the amazing creature. The special delves deep into this terrifying ancient mystery, uncovering what is one of the most amazing underwater finds in modern history.

Face Yoga - anti-wrinkle facial exercise or just plain stupid? You decide.

Trees ask for little, mostly because they cannot talk. So just assume that they like company and plant them a new friend.

UFO HUNTERS on HISTORY, Wednesdays at 10 PM. A UFO sighting above Chicago's largest airport leaves authorities scrambling for answers... There are approximately 30,000 commercial flights in the United States every day...and as the number of flights increase, so does the proximity of UFO encounters. On November 7th, 2006, a strange object hovered for ten minutes over Gate C17 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago before rapidly ascending into the sky. And on October 23rd of 2004, in Osaka, Japan a UFO was spotted tailing Japanese Airlines flight 1512 as it came in for a landing. Are UFOs following our own commercial aircraft, and surveying our airports? The team sifts through the evidence of these and other mysterious cases to determine if UFOs have a peaceful or malevolent agenda. For more info, please visit http://www.history.com/minisites/ufohunters

Airs Tuesday, February 3 at 8pm– Low Earth Orbit, 120 miles above sea level, is where the majority of space exploration has occurred. This 1,100 mile band around Earth is where--for a cool $20 million--any private citizen can take the vacation of his or her life on the International Space Station. Commercial prospects for LEO are huge; but dangers lurk for any individual willing to travel here -- radiation, cosmic rays, and space debris numbering in the thousands threaten any spacecraft traveling in orbit. It’s the new frontier, or the final frontier…and the possibilities are endless if you are willing to travel to the edge of space exploration on THE UNIVERSE. For more info, please visit http://www.history.com/universe