If you’re a STEM teacher, then you face a recurring challenge during the school year: How do you design and lead high-quality lessons? After all, these are not typical science or math lessons. STEM ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. What makes interior designer Katie Schroder cringe? So-called “period-appropriate” color palettes. “If you ...

The secret to beautiful home design isn’t a secret at all — it’s about thorough planning and understanding principles of scale and proportion, color and light. Of course, that’s easily stated but much ...

“Every light is a shade, compared to the higher lights, till you come to the sun; and every shade is a light, compared to the deeper shades, till you come to the night.” - John Ruskin, 1879 The ...

The level design of Mario games often seems simple, while gradually and invisibly teaching the player what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. Ideas are introduced in a safe space, ...

Penn and Teller once had a show about “What is the best?” Engineers know that’s not a complete question. Think about a car. What makes the “best” car? It depends on why you want a car. For a race car ...

You might think “Featherstone” is the perfect last name for a man who became famous for inventing the plastic pink flamingo. As it turns out, his first name–Donald–is also appropriate: Prior to the ...