By Kerry McDonald

November 29, 2016 - Homeschoolers are a diverse bunch. Our teaching approaches and learning philosophies vary. Our politics run the gamut and our visions of education reform differ greatly. Yet despite these contrasts, homeschoolers are remarkably similar. I recently asked a large eclectic group of homeschooling parents why they chose this education option for their children. Key homeschooling features like "freedom," and "time," and "flexibility," and "individualization" were common drivers for all.

STANDING ROCK, North Dakota (PNN) - November 28, 2016 - In response to an increasingly furious public outcry, sheriffs from around the country have refused to send personnel and equipment to assist the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in guarding construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

GREENBELT, Maryland (PNN) - November 28, 2016 - New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say.

KARBALA, Iraq (PNN) - November 22, 2016 - The Iraqi city of Karbala, where the holy shrine of the third Shia Imam - Imam Hussein - is located, is swarming with millions of devoted Muslims, both Shiites and Sunnis, for mourning rituals marking Arbaeen, known as the largest religious gathering in the world.

AMSTERDAM, Holland ({PNN) - November 21, 2016 - If you think you are not being analyzed while browsing websites, it could be time to reconsider.

A creepy new website called clickclickclick has been developed to demonstrate how our online behavior is continuously measured.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 18, 2016 - Mozilla’s Firefox browser didn’t quite make the leap from desktop to mobile, particularly on iOS, but it’s back for a second try with Firefox Focus, a new very private browser which hopes to be iPhone users’ go-to tool for private web surfing.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (PNN) - November 18, 2016 - Bolivian president Evo Morales recently announced that Bolivia will no longer respond to pressure or blackmail from the Fascist Police States of Amerika government or Rothschild-controlled international banking institutions.

HAWTHORNE, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 17, 2016 - Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch thousands of satellites into space with the aim of providing super-fast global Internet coverage, according to a regulatory filing.

BETHESDA, Maryland (PNN) - November 16, 2016 - Fascist Police States of Amerika scientists have found that an antibody from an HIV-infected person has successfully neutralized 98% of HIV isolates tested, including the lion’s share of strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class.

LONDON, England (PNN) - November 14, 2016 - It’s one of the most fundamental compounds on Earth, and it makes up roughly 60% of the human body, and yet water is turning out to be stranger than we could have ever imagined.

Researchers have been investigating the physical properties of water, and found that when it’s heated to between 40 and 60 degrees Celsius, it hits a “crossover temperature”, and appears to start switching between two different states of liquid.