The Internet when I was growing up was the property of huge universities and a few corporations and could only do some basic chatting and information sharing. Today, kids have at their fingertips, or more likely thumb-tips as they text and surf the web from their mobile phones, a sea of information about each other, music, trendy fashion and science. Yes, I said science.

Seems teachers and professors as well as science magazines are using the media of video on demand and peer video such as YouTube to explain the science and physics behind some of the more physical or chemically induced videos. The site Popular Science embeds YouTube videos into explanations from physicists and scientists of such things as why extreme skiers don't kill themselves by skiing off a cliff or the strength of the Incredible Hulk and his magical and equally strong pants.

Cool stuff, I wish I had as a kid, but something I can still enjoy as an adult. I wonder if my life would be different, a different career, or living in a different location, had the Internet been available to the masses when I was growing up? What do you think, would your life be different?

Do you have a cool web site that is being wasted on children that you think other adults would like to see? Keep'em clean, but please let me know.

Until next time, Tim