btw’s Year in Review: Arts, Life, and Sports
Humans don’t need entertainment and sports in order to survive, but our lives would hardly be as rich and meaningful without them. btw kept you abreast on the most popular movies, television, music, art and theater and brought you interesting human-interest stories from around the world. Sports heroes faced considerable scrutiny for their actions this […]
btw’s Year in Review: Science, Technology and Business
This was a year filled with exciting new discoveries, future-facing innovations, and a continually changing climate. Big corporations faced big consequences for big mistakes. Living life and conducting business in an online environment has become commonplace. But the innovations in Science and Technology continues to evolve. Science We have always been fascinated with the early lives […]
btw’s Year in Review: World News
Last week, btw took a look at the big stories from around the United States. This week we move on to the rest of the world. With the Internet, social media and other various outlets, the world community feels closer than ever. We saw a shift in leadership with the election of a new pope […]
Awesome Way to Raise Awareness (and to do a lot of good)
The holiday season is a popular time for people to donate to their favorite charities. On December 17 and 18, thousands of them were featured in a two-day “virtual charity drive” called The Project for Awesome (P4A). John and Hank Green, brothers behind a very popular Internet show broadcast on YouTube called the VlogBrothers, sponsor […]
btw’s Year in Review: U.S. News
It’s that time of year again, time to take a break from the frantic pace of the holidays and reflect on the year behind us. Doing so not only reminds us what happened, but allows us to reflect on trends, learn from our successes and failures, and speculate on what might have lasting impact. 2013 […]
Understanding Apartheid
Last week, btw reported on the death of Nelson Mandela. He was a prominent world leader and South Africa’s first black president. But he is perhaps best known for his fight to successfully end apartheid in his country. So What Is It? South Africa has a long history of racial tension going back to its […]
Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Nelson Mandela passed away yesterday. Mandela was one of the most significant political and social leaders of the late 20th century. As a political activist, Mandela led social protests in South Africa against that nation’s apartheid policy of racial segregation. For his actions, Mandela was jailed by the South African government. He spent 27 years […]
We’ve Gotta Have It!
It seems to happen like this: you’re living your life and suddenly you must have a certain communication device, you just can’t possibly function in the same way without it. For your parents it might have been a VCR or a personal computer, maybe a digital pager. For your grandparents it might have been an […]