Read the original article on Purewow. Your kids are home from school, and you desperately need some time to do laundry/pay bills/chill out. The fix? Plunk 'em down in front of the TV for a couple of ...

The cliches of classroom science films —the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation ...