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 ...

At first glance, a merry-go-round that generates electricity appears to be a charming idea. But Empower Playgrounds President, Ben Markham, came up with the idea in 2006 during an 18-month stint ...

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 ...

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The postseason merry-go-round in golf is in full motion. No, this isn’t about Silly Season golf tournaments or women playing in tournaments previously exclusive to men or even trying to figure out ...

The city of Los Angeles got in touch with its inner child on Thursday, Aug. 21 when its Department of Recreation and Parks approved the purchase of a 99-year-old inoperative merry-go-round at a price ...

The city of Los Angeles’ Recreation and Parks Department is planning on buying the historic carousel that entertained children and celebrities for nearly a century in Griffith Park. On Thursday, Aug.

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 ...