How do you bring electricity and light to children who live half their lives in complete darkness, and their entire lives in abject poverty? Empower Playgrounds is a nonprofit that has come up with an ...

For at least three generations, youngsters looked forward to a shopping trip with a parent to the former Jim’s House of Shoes on North Street in Pittsfield. It was not so much for new shoes, but an ...

Most children in Essam, Ghana, had never seen a merry-go-round until a Brigham Young University-led team arrived to install the curious device in their village. For ...

Disneyland turned 60 this summer and to honor the event the park is currently hosting a massive Diamond Celebration that kicked off in May. I visited The Happiest Place on Earth a couple of months ago ...

USA TODAY is a proud partner of Impact Journalism Day-- an alliance of 45 news organizations committed to showcasing solution-based stories with the goal of inspiring readers to become changemakers in ...

A trip to the Merry Go Round is an old fashioned thrill for all ages. Los Angeles boasts five fanciful carousels to choose from. All are very inexpensive, and make an ideal destination for a family ...

Yes. I just posted about MythBusters. However, I thought this would be an appropriate time to also talk about the physics involved with the "shoot the merry go round" myth. The basic idea of the myth ...