Trunk calls open up elephants' dictionary

Elephant mothers are protective of their young: when a calf became separated from its family and started calling out, Turkalo's microphones recorded infrasonic notes known to biologists as "reassurance rumbles" as seven females thundered to the baby's side.

Ballet Video Dictionary with Mao’s Last Dancer, Li Cunxin, Now in a Mobile App

Ballet is Fun mobile application for iPhone and iPad features 325 instructional videos demonstrated by world-class dancers for students of every age and skill level.Dallas, TX (PRWEB) February 01, 2012 Audiences familiar with Li Cunxin’s autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer, or the film of the same name appreciate what it takes to become a truly great dancer. Plucked from an impoverished rural ...

Educational Vocabulary Videos Bring Words to Life

Kinetic Media produces hundreds of educational videos to teach students vocabulary words in fun and unique ways.Hartford, CT (PRWEB) February 01, 2012 How would you visualize the word “pressure” or “collapse?” Not too hard. But what about “nevertheless?” Not so easy. An educational video vocabulary series produced by Kinetic Media (http://www.kinmedia.com) and the William H. Sadlier publishing ...

Dig deep into Lion: The best overlooked, underrated features

Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and ...

Readers’ input vital to community newspapers

What does it mean to be a “community” newspaper? The dictionary defines “community” as “a group of people living together in one place, especially one practicing common ownership.”