Every holiday season, there’s one must-have toy. Customers have been known to wait in line for hours, pay massive amounts of money and even physically fight in toy-store aisles during Black Friday sales just to get their hands on the year’s hottest toy.
Read on to discover the most popular toys of the past three decades — and what the next toy craze will be.
The Most Popular Toys Through the Decades Created By: Ebates
Since the debut of Peanuts in 1955, Charles Schulz and United Press Syndicate (which distributed the comic strip) had gotten a steady stream of offers to adapt the characters for film and television; the artist was also directly petitioned by young readers, who would write Schulz asking when Snoopy would come to some kind of animated life. His stock reply: “There are some greater things in the world than TV animated cartoons.”
Since the debut of Peanuts in 1955, Charles Schulz and United Press Syndicate (which distributed the comic strip) had gotten a steady stream of offers to adapt the characters for film and television; the artist was also directly petitioned by young readers, who would write Schulz asking when Snoopy would come to some kind of animated life. His stock reply: “There are some greater things in the world than TV animated cartoons.”
How good are you with money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that we’re not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities. David Dunning describes the Dunning-Kruger effect.
How good are you with money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that we’re not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities. David Dunning describes the Dunning-Kruger effect.
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
A short time from now, in a galaxy not too far away, the International Space Station will go from ISS to RSS – a Radio Space Station – as NASA astronaut Joe Acaba will host his second show on Third Rock Radio from 252 miles above Earth.
Produced by Houston-based RFC Media, which created Third Rock Radio to support NASA’s outreach to young adults in science, technology, engineering, and math, “The Joe Show” will air at 5 p.m. EST Dec. 7 and features Acaba as an out-of-this-world DJ spinning tunes and talking science for a global audience.
“The Joe Show” can be streamed live from www.thirdrockradio.net.
Third Rock Radio is produced under a NASA Space Act Agreement with RFC Media. “America’s Space Station” features updates on NASA’s newest missions and discoveries, as well as some very tasty new rock/indie/alternative. Stream it live from the NASA mobile app, from TuneIn, or directly from www.thirdrockradio.net.
Pat Fant, co-founder of RFC Media, said, “the broadcast is designed to engage a broad, worldwide audience in NASA’s mission of exploration and discovery.”
“Joe returns to Third Rock after his 2012 debut from the ISS. He will spin some of the best new rock out there – really out there – which provides a disarmingly contemporary context for the stories of those who fly, build, and dream through aerospace,” Fant explained. “Listeners will get a peek at some of the remarkable work being done on the ISS and learn how NASA is engaged in adding to their lives through exploration and discovery.
“At RFC Media, our goal is to help our client brands build community and deepen their relationship with audiences. Third Rock does that for NASA, and The Joe Show is another creative example of presenting the message in a fresh new context.”
Fant credited Third Rock’s success to a seamless blend of spoken word content and largely undiscovered music – something he said is a hallmark of RFC’s BrandCasting strategy.
“Third Rock is far from your basic off-the-shelf radio playlist, run by computers, offering canned content,” he continued. “It is a live-hosted presentation by nationally known on-air talent who produce fresh and relevant information surrounded by specially curated music. The whole package helps popularize the ways NASA is taking us into the future.
“This kind of audience-specific brand focus is the future of radio. It’s what we do. And it demonstrates how on-purpose streaming radio adds to brand marketing.
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