Enhanced Learning

The way that the Brazilians view TV has certainly changed in three poor neighborhoods of Joao Pessoa, the capital city of Paraba in Northeastern Brazil. And it isn’t because a new soap opera or any additional TV series has started. The secret is the new digital service that has been introduced, initially being made available [...]

If you ever wondered why we get so much enjoyment from playing even the simplest of games, you have to look back into our distant ancestry for some interesting and surprising answers. Anthropologists have long known that part of the growing up process of most of the animal kingdom, humans included, involves playing games. They [...]

The world of internet based education is certainly picking up steam.  Everywhere you look the big Universities across the world are stampeding to offer their course online.  The latest development is from Hong Kong, where classrooms are being introduced to education using YouTube. The video sharing site have launched the Hong Kong Digital Academy, which [...]

The growth of online education is much talked about and many think that 2013 could well be the defining year.  But in the context of the world, how important is it likely to be?  Well many estimates have suggested that the global economy needs to create over 500 million jobs in the next ten years. [...]

With the general tendency for western populations to become less and less healthy in physical terms while the average level of body weight continually increases, there needs to be more and better education on promoting good health. One of the biggest problems facing large numbers of people is not so much in the lack of [...]

Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass, and the fifteenth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. Carbon is also the basis of organic life as all organic compounds contain ’c’ in their chain. Carbon is found in the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide, and it is found [...]

Since the creation in the late 1960s of the fast food restaurant and the wave of convenience foods that followed in their wake, the health of the nation has slowly declined while its collective weight has risen. The change was relatively slow at first but in the last 20 years or so, the increase in [...]

It is hard to dispute the general decrease in the skills of high school graduates over recent decades.  When I was in school, Pre Calculus was regularly and rigorously taught to all but the most challenged students of mathematics. When looking at today’s high school academic environment, it is hard to comprehend what we see. [...]

Enhanced-learning.org is an online resource devoted to educational and academic subjects. The site is devoted to intellectual pursuits. Trying to analysize information and trying to form theories that can be tested again and again for their veracity is at the heart of the drive to build intellectual models of the world and all that is [...]

In 1943 the two Russian scientists Dr. B. R. Lazarenko and Dr. N. I. Lazarenko were experimenting with electrical discharges as a weapon. They stumbled across a method for machining metals using electrical sparks this became known as EDM. However, the story goes further back to 1770 to the British scientist Joseph Priestley who first [...]