Parents love witnessing and documenting their children’s firsts.
Proud moms and dads wait anxiously, clenching their iPhone, finger on the camera trigger, ready to capture a child’s first step or first word. But this YouTube clip captures a first moment that most parents don’t usually catch — a child’s first taste of lemon:
Fantastic, probably my favourite from this year’s April Fools jokes:
A little girl named Lara practices to become the musical director of this church choir in Kyrgyzstan someday. From her careful movements and her passion for the music, it probably won’t be as long as you might think!
I love this guide to International Problem solving that has been going viral recently:
Some of the more random headlines from the BBC News website over the last week or so:
You have to feel for this PE teacher Emma Denham, who was being observed taking a class as part of the interview process at Mountbatten School, in Romsey, when Sam Mangoro’s heart stopped, sending him into cardiac arrest.
But quick-thinking Emma, along with three other members of staff, ran to his aid and gave him life-saving CPR using a defibrillator that the school had only purchased a few months before. It was their courage and ability to put their training into practice under such immense pressure, along with the fact that the school had a defibrillator, that saved the 16-yearold’s life say doctors.
Sam, was last night being slowly woken up from a medically induced coma, which he has been in since the incident on Thursday, but his parents are hopeful thanks to the teachers who gave him the best possible chance of making a full recoverery.
Head teacher Heather McIlroy, received a call from one of the consultants treating Sam to praise her staff, who, he said, had saved the teenager’s life. Mrs McIlroy, who told the Daily Echo that, regrettably, Miss Denham did not get the job despite her heroics, said: “It is nothing short of a miracle.”
Industrial mechanic Ulf Hoffmann built the robot called UHTTR-1, which plays table tennis with the aid of its own camera. It doesn’t miss a shot, it’s just not as aggressive as some players I’ve seen -yet. But what a great practice partner! Learn more about it at Hoffmann’s blog, if you can read German, or you might preferthe Google translation.