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-- Recommended Resources --  Three more amazing resources for you to check out, and hopefully - share... -- Healthy creeks, streams, marshes, and other water sources that are often found near communities is essential for wildlife. Protecting and restoring those waterways is not as hard as it may sound and can have a huge impact on the local economy as well. Find out more via this fantastic article written by Tom Spencer and published on the World Wildlife Federation’s blog: http://blog.nwf.org/2018/06/healthy-creeks-and-streams-help-urban-wildlife/?s_email_id=201808_GFW_newsletter_August2018|MTMemHab -- https://www.facebook.com/OWLRehab/ http://www.owlrehab.org/ Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society is a non-profit animal sanctuary whose staff & volunteers are dedicated to the rehabilitation and release of raptors. Located in Delta, BC (Canada) Well stocked gift shop offers various owl and eagle stuffies, t-shirts, hoodi...

Newton's Third Law and The Secret Physics of Drumming

Newton's Third Law and The Secret Physics of Drumming * Written by: Maeve M Johnson Dating back to 4000 BC in Egypt, drums are the oldest known instrument in the world. Not only have people been using drums for a long time, but Macaque monkeys also use drumming to show dominance and communicate.  Drums have been used all over the world as a means of communication or a way to create music. People who play the drums heavily rely on the physics behind them, but many people never truly realize how much newton's third law takes place in their activity.  When a person plays drums, to simply put it, they are just hitting drums in different ways at different times. The main thing they are doing is bouncing a stick, a hand, a mallet or something similar off of a drum. Without being able to bounce something off the drum, drumming would be drastically different, or even non-existent in this day and age. Both the sticks, mallets, hands, etc.,...