What is an optical illusion? Optical illusions, more appropriately known as visual illusions, involves visual deception. Due to the arrangement of images, effect of colors, impact of light source or other variable, a wide range of misleading visual effects can be seen. If you've ever struggled to see the hidden image...

An exciting line of recent research has been uncovering the time, at the dawn of the solar system, when the asteroids were active miniature planets. Today just three of the largest asteroids remain mostly undamaged from that short era, leftover protoplanets. Today in Nature a paper reports that some shattered...

If you have a child with special needs and an IEP has been developed, then you are probably quite familar with the term accommodations. In fact, accommodations are a large part of the 'action' in an IEP. Accommodations usually occur in 3 areas: Instruction, assessment and in the environment.Instructional...