Kind of a neat resource

One of the things that has been said about me in every teacher, internship, or mentor evaluation I’ve ever received is that not only do I want to know how to do a task I want to know why we do that task that way. Is there something that compels us, because of the inherent nature of the task or the goal or the field of study in which we’re working, to do something one way vs another? I found a nifty little site that will help out with that: Howstuffworks.com

Many of the articles are written for about a junior high school level but about somethings (how a rail gun works, how the U.S. Federal Reserve works) I need the junior high level explanation. Still, it’s a decent resource if I decide to do NaNo this year.