American Culture and History Lesson: Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks

Image Credit: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya For today’s American Culture and History lesson, we’re going to learn about Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells greatly impacted modern science. So today, as I mentioned before, we’re going to talk about Henrietta Lacks. Just a few months ago, I decided to read the book Read more…

American Culture and History Amazon Go Store - Image from Business Insider

The Amazon Go Stores

For today’s American Culture and History lesson, we’re going to learn about Amazon Go Stores. So if you don’t follow tech news this topic might be a bit surprising for you, and in fact it might just blow your mind. Amazon has stores where you just walk out. They call Read more…

The Barkley Marathons - Story of Its Beginnings

The Barkley Marathons

For today’s fun fact about the United States, we’re going to learn about The Barkley Marathons. So let’s begin by talking a little bit about measurement in English. First of all we use what we call the imperial system, not the metric system. However, there are certain periods of time Read more…