What is it?
The NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams that compete in seven rounds for the national championship. The penultimate round is known as the Final Four, when (you guessed it) only four teams are left.
What is Selection Sunday?
Selection Sunday is the day when the Selection Committee reveals the full NCAA tournament bracket, including all teams and all seeds. The NCAA updates its article every year with information on when Selection Sunday is and how to watch the bracket reveal.
When does it start?
The first NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament was in 1939 and was held every year until the 2019-20 season. The event was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Where can you get more information about this year's March Madness?
By CLICKING HERE and visiting the NCAA website
March 7th is the day for cereal! Whether it be hot or cold, crunchy or soggy, let your taste buds have some fun with your favorite cereal today! Let us know your favorite cereal with our poll, and don't forget all the opportunities to learn more about everything cereal:
What are Dreams?
Dreams are images, thoughts, or feelings that occur during sleep. Visual imagery is the most common, but dreams can involve all of the senses. Some people dream in color while others dream in black and white, and people who are blind tend to have more dream components related to sound, taste, and smell.
Why do we Dream?
Debate continues among sleep experts about why we dream. Different theories about the purpose of dreaming include:
This information is from the Sleep Foundation.
Almost everyone loves popcorn. The scent has people floating towards it like a cartoon character. The crunch is just oh-so-satisfying. It is a low-carb and low-fat snack that may be a healthy alternative to potato chips, but how much do you actually know about this delicious snack?
What, exactly, is the difference between a folktale and a fable? The two are eerily similar but do have their differences.
Take a look at some folktales and fables we recommend!
Alien abduction stories, at least in the West, are relatively common. From as far back as the early 60s, there have been reports of people being stolen away by aliens — typically at night — often for various physics-defying experiments, before being returned home in one piece.
While stories like these might strike some as delusions that would typically arise from certain mental health issues, studies have found that abductees are no more likely than anyone else to have conditions affecting their perception of reality.
Thanks to psychological research over the past few decades, however, we can probably conclude that these alien misadventures arise due to two entirely more mundane phenomena: sleep paralysis, and false memories. -The British Psychological Society
Want to see what some abduction stories are like? Here are the most popular ones to date:
Education Freedom Day is on March 21 every year. While most of us take learning and education for granted, it’s a privilege many around the world can’t afford, for various reasons: geography, money, personal setbacks, or disabilities. Solutions lie in the unlikeliest spaces, and technology has been that disruptive force over the years. On Education Freedom Day, the world recommits to the purpose of making learning accessible for everyone through free software and educational resources.
Education Freedom Day is a global celebration with one mission – ensuring access to free, open-source education resources through technology. The day was founded by the Digital Freedom Foundation (D.F.F.), a non-profit organization that educates the general public on the benefits of free software and open-source educational resources. -National Today
Did you know that the library has many open-source materials for use for free? Stop in the library or use the talk bubble in the corner to ask us about it!
For many, mermaids are a myth. Although, they are often called sirens, and have many myths and legends about them, sailors in the middle of the sea may lay claim to hearing or seeing one. So what exactly is a mermaid and what are some stories we should know about?
One of the earliest mermaid legends appeared in Syria around 1000 BC when the goddess Atargatis dove into a lake to take the form of a fish. As the gods there would not allow her to give up her great beauty, only her bottom half became a fish, and she kept her top half in human form. Archaeologists have found Atargatis' figures on ancient temples, statues, and coins.
Many folktales record marriages between mermaids (who might assume human form) and men. In most, the man steals the mermaid’s cap or belt, her comb, or mirror. While the objects are hidden she lives with him; if she finds them she returns at once to the sea. In some variants, the marriage lasts while certain agreed-upon conditions are fulfilled, and it ends when the conditions are broken.
Mermaid mythology is quite varied, with mermaids taking on many different appearances, origins, and personalities. The first recorded half-fish, half-human creature is Oannes, a Babylonian god from the 4th century BCE who would leave the sea every day and return at night. Though the ancient Greek sirens, who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey, were originally described as having bird bodies, they are often portrayed as fish-tailed mermaids—so frequently that variations on the word “siren” mean mermaid in many languages.
Information gathered from Royal Museums-Greenwich, Britannica, Smithsonian- Ocean.
