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200 Years of Australian Landscapes at the Royal Academy in London
A. For the casual viewer, the exhibition of landscapes, Australia, selected by the Royal Academy of Art will be a spectacular guide through Australian art history. Includ…
A Brief History of Humans and Food
During the journey from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the present day there have been three seismic changes that have had an impact on the food we eat: the discovery o…
A Brief History of Humans and Food
A. During the journey from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the present day there have been three seismic changes that have had an impact on the food we eat: the discover…
A Brief History of Tea
A. Brief History of Tea How the world's most widely consumed beverage shaped empires, economies, and cultures across six centuries of global trade A Tea is, after water, …
A Brief Introduction to Pepper
A. Pepper, the spice, comes from the berries of a plant that is a woody climbing vine. In the botanical world, pepper belongs to a genus of plants called Piper. This genu…
A Mechanical Friend for Children
A. The development of robots that interact socially with people and assist them in everyday life has been an elusive goal of modem science. Despite impressive advances in…
A New Stage in the Study and Teaching of History
A New Stage in the Study and Teaching of History How digital technology and changing theoretical frameworks are transforming what history is, who does it, and who it is f…
A New Voyage Round the World
Part travelogue, part historical record of the Caribbean pirates, part scientific treatise, A New Voyage Round the World was William Dampier's account of his twelve-year …
A Study of Introvert and Extrovert Characters
14 A. We are often labelled as introverts or extroverts, and humans do seem to have biological propensities to behave in certain ways; some of us are naturally more talka…
A new look for Talbot Park
A. The new Talbot Park is immediately eye-catching because the buildings look quite different to other state housing* projects in Auckland. 'There is no reason why state …
A new stage in the study and teaching of history
For hundreds of years, historians have relied on written or printed documents to provide the bulk of their source materials, and they have largely communicated with stude…
A study of western celebrity
A. It seems that our current society cannot get enough information about the daily lives of celebrities. But how did celebrities become so much an important force in our …
A survivor's story
A. As an island country with a fauna dominated by birds, New Zealand was once home to an owl species which is now extinct, the laughing owl, named for its distinctive cry…
A survivor's story
One native bird in New Zealand that has managed to survive the introduction of non-native species As an island country with a fauna dominated by birds, New Zealand was on…
A unique golden textile
A. A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders has been on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. To produce this g…
Advertising needs attention
A. Jane Raymond, a consumer psychologist at the University of Wales in Bangor, is carefully holding and gazing at a bottle of Chillz mineral water like a baby. Despite be…
Amateur Naturalists
A. Tim Sparks slides a small leather-bound notebook out of an envelope. The book's yellowing pages contain bee-keeping notes made between 1941 and 1969 by the late Walter…
Ambergris — what is it and where does it come from?
In the ancient world, the waxy, grey substance we now refer to as ambergris was highly prized for its medicinal properties and was widely used as a spice, which was belie…
An Important Language Development
An Important Language Development How children acquire language — and what the process reveals about the nature of human cognition A. Language acquisition is one of the m…
An important language development
Cuneiform, the world's first known system of handwriting, originated some 6,000 years ago in Sumer in what is now southern Iraq. It was most often inscribed on palm-sized…
Ancient Rome: Archaeologists Are Trying to Understand More About the Early History of the City
A. From ancient times to the present, historians have asked the question: How and why did an ordinary little town in central Italy grow so much bigger than any other in t…
Andrew Carnegie: industrialist and philanthropist
A. The Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who was the leader of the American steel industry from 1873 to 1901, donated large sums of…
Answers Underground
Answers Underground Scientists are discovering that the soil beneath our feet is one of the least understood and most important ecosystems on Earth A A single teaspoon of…
Answers Underground
Burying greenhouse gases to slow global warming A. One way to slow global warming is to take the greenhouse gases that cause it and bury them. That is the idea behind pro…