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As we say in our "marketing" pitch, SweetSearch2Day is a daily assortment of the best educational content online. Every single content feed has been thoroughly reviewed before we deemed it worthy of inclusion on the page. We intend to continually add to it over time.
We feature four different Photos of the Day: from National Geographic, Smithsonian, Astronomy Photos from NASA, and earth science photos from the Earth Science Institute. Today's photo from NatGeo is a group of cows standing over a lake, their reflections shining off the surface. What better way to begin a Friday morning blog post?
Our On This Day today covers the launch of 60 Minutes - for several decades, the most watched program on television. Interestingly, the genesis of our idea for Interview of the Day, a feature that highlights compelling historic interviews, was uncovering the Mike Wallace Interviews with 66 luminaries of the 1950s, on the University of Texas Web site.
Today's Interview of the Day captures two interviews at MIT with Jack Welch, the legendary chairman of General Electric during its heyday in the 1980s. I was a senior executive at my previous company when Welch published his book Winning. Full of practical advice applicable to anyone, it became the guide book by which we managed the company, with tremendous results. No matter who you are or what you do, you can learn a lot from Jack Welch.
Mark Moran
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He was abandoned by his father. At 5, he watched his brother drown. At 7, glaucoma claimed his eyesight. And at 15, he lost the mother he idolized. With $600 to his name, he moved from Georgia to Seattle and began a career as a musician. But by 35, he was addicted to heroin. But he overcame it all to win a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, and a National Medal of the Arts. Ray Charles was born this day in 1930.
In On This Day, we discuss the introduction of the rules of modern baseball, in 1845. For many, the interesting part of the article will be our noting that it is a myth that baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown in 1839. Longtime readers of the findingDulcinea blog won't be surprised by this; we long ago noted that credit for an invention often depends more on popular perception than reality.
Interview of the Day, launched a week ago, has featured a series of compelling historic interviews thus far. Today's is the oldest one so far - an interview with Harry Houdini from 1904.
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Welcome to SweetSearch2Day, where students learn something new every day.
Our On This Day for yesterday, September 19, is the most widely read article we've ever published. It tells the story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish spy during WWII. The article is too compelling to spoil with more details here. The reason it is so widely read is that the Soviets took over Poland after the war. Most Polish war heroes remained loyal to the former Polish government, and thus their heroism was never revealed to the world, until the election of Lech Walesa in 1990 opened Poland to the world.
Today is the 37th anniversary of the death of Jim Croce in a plane crash, at the age of 30. It is stunning to me that he wrote such insightful lyrics in his 20s. Read them, here. I hope they speak to you as they do to me.
In President Obama's speech to students last week, he warned them about creating an embarrassing digital footprint. This is the approach most schools take. Which is a darn shame, but one of the most important things a student can learn today is how to build a robust, positive digital footprint.
Mark Moran
CEO, Dulcinea Media
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Welcome to SweetSearch2Day, where students learn something new every day.
We developed it with leading educators to help teachers integrate online content into daily lessons, and to lead students to explore the best content online. To quote the parting words of a Calvinist philosopher who left us too soon, today is “a day full of possibilities. Let’s go exploring.”
A century later, GM is once again preparing for its "birth" - its main owner, the U.S. government, is getting ready to sell its stock in the company to the public. This time, GM's OnStar unit is touting new features that enable a driver to send and hear Facebook status updates and text messages while driving.
Some interesting facts from G.M.'s history to discuss with students:
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Welcome to SweetSearch2Day, where students learn something new every day.
We developed it with leading educators to help teachers integrate online content into daily lessons, and to lead students to explore the best content online.
To quote the parting words of a Calvinist philosopher who left us too soon, today is “a day full of possibilities. Let’s go exploring.”
Sincerely,
Mark Moran
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