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The Origins of Weather Forecasting
The world's first public weather forecast appeared in The Times newspaper over 150 years ago: the beginning of a service that gives everyone something to comment on. The …
The Peopling of Patagonia
A. The human settlement of the southern extremity of the Americas has always fascinated pre-historians. Viewed from a global perspective, this was the last major continen…
The Peopling of Patagonia
Anthropologists continue to investigate human migration to Patagonia at the southern tip of South America. The human settlement of the southern extremity of the Americas …
The Pesticide-Free Village
The Pesticide-Free Village How one community in India pioneered ecological farming and inspired a global movement A. In the early 1990s, the village of Ennamangalam in th…
The Pesticide-free Village
Gerry Marten and Dona Glee Williams report on the Indian village of Punukula, so nearly destroyed by reliance on pesticides Around 25 years ago, a handful of families mig…
The Pixar Story
The animation studio Pixar has experienced a number of challenges in its short history A. Between 2000 and 2005, under former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael D. Eis…
The Placebo Effect
A. Want to devise a new form of alternative medical treatment? No problem. Here’s the recipe. As a practitioner, be warm, sympathetic, reassuring and enthusiastic. Your t…
The Problems and Benefits Created by the Spread of the Water Hyacinth in Kenya
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), an aquatic plant native to South America, first appeared in countries in Africa in the early 1900s. Scientists there called it the …
The Problems of Getting Around Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa. Its population has increased eightfold since 1980 and swells by half a million people every year…
The Psychology of New Product Adoption
A. An American philosopher once said, "If a man can ... make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ... the world will make a beaten path to his door." If only marketing in…
The Pyramid Of Cestius
A. Though Rome draws tourists from around the world to its many impressive sites, one notable monument there has never attracted nearly as much interest: The Pyramid of C…
The Remarkable Power of Placebos
A It's one of our most powerful medical treatments, and certainly our most widely effective. In recent years, it's been found to help eliminate or lessen the symptoms ass…
The Return of Monkey Life
The Return of Monkey Life How primate populations that were once on the edge of extinction are staging surprising recoveries he story of primate conservation over the pas…
The Return of Monkey Life
Rain forest trees growing anew on Central American farmland are helping scientists find ways for monkeys and agriculture to benefit one another A. Hacienda La Pacífica, a…
The Rise of Big Data
Big Data connects data to other data. It transforms scattered fragments of digital information into meaningful patterns, predictions, and insights. Today, nearly every hu…
The Role of Accidents in Business
The Role of Accidents in Business How unexpected failures have driven some of the most significant innovations in industrial history A. The history of technology and busi…
The Science of Boredom
The Science of Boredom Why the most overlooked emotional state may be one of the most consequential -- and what research is revealing about it A Boredom is among the most…
The Science of Yawning
The Science of Yawning How and why we yawn still presents problems for researchers in an area only recently opened up to study Y awning is among the most familiar of all …
The Secret of the Stradivarius
The Secret of the Stradivarius Why the violins made by Antonio Stradivari in seventeenth-century Italy remain the most sought-after instruments ever produced -- and wheth…
The Sense of Flavour
The Sense of Flavour lavour is one of the most complex sensory experiences available to human beings, yet it is also one of the most frequently misunderstood. Common usag…
The Significant Role of Mother Tongue in Education
One consequence of population mobility is an increasing diversity within schools. To illustrate, in the city of Toronto in Canada, 58% of kindergarten pupils come from ho…
The Story of Coffee
The Story of Coffee C offee is today the second most widely traded commodity on Earth after crude oil, consumed in some form by an estimated two billion people daily. Its…
The Strange World of Sight
Seeing is believing, it is said. But, asks Richard Gregory, could it be the other way round? Two of the great British men of the 17th century, the philosopher John Locke …
The Tasmanian Tiger
The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was a carnivorous marsupial (a meat-eating mammal which carries its young in a pouch). It was given the name "tiger" because it had str…