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Insect Decision-making
A. It has long been held that decisions made collectively by large groups of people are more likely to turn out to be accurate than decisions made by individuals. The ide…
Inside the Mind of a Fan
How watching sport affects the brain A. At about the same time that the poet Homer invented the epic hero, the ancient Greeks started a festival in which men competed in …
Is Aid Hurting Africa?
Is Aid Hurting Africa? The debate over whether foreign development aid has helped or harmed economic growth and governance in sub-Saharan Africa A. The question of whethe…
Is Graffiti Art or Crime?
A The term graffiti derives from the Italian graffito meaning ‘scratching’ and can be defined as uninvited marking or writing scratched or applied to objects, built struc…
James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny
The Industrial Revolution (1760–1850) began in England and spread throughout Europe and the Americas over the course of the next several decades. The Industrial Revolutio…
Jewels from the Sea
Indigenous necklaces in Tasmania Necklace-making is the most significant cultural tradition of Tasmanian Aboriginal women. It is also one of the few traditions that have …
John Ray and the Study of Plants
A. The 17th-century English scholar and botanist John Ray was well aware that he lived through, and participated in, a profound revolution in the way people interacted wi…
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in New Zealand. Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born in 1888, into a promi…
Katherine Mansfield
A. Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born in 1888, into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. She became one of New Zealand's best-known writers, using the…
Katherine Mansfield: A Life in Short Fiction
Katherine Mansfield: A Life in Short Fiction How New Zealand's most celebrated writer transformed the short story into a major literary form A Katherine Mansfield was bor…
Keeping the Water Away
Keeping the Water Away How engineers and planners manage the threat of flooding — and why the approach is changing A. Flooding is the world's most costly and most frequen…
Keeping the fun in funfairs
A. (Example: vii) Fun is becoming a tricky issue for ride designers. In order to increase excitement, they have been ramping up the accelerations to create the most dizzy…
Keeping the water away
A. Recently, winter floods on the rivers of central Europe have been among the worst for 600 to 700 years, and dams and dykes (protective sea walls) have failed to solve …
Learning to Walk
Learning to Walk W alking upright on two legs is so natural to adult humans that it requires no conscious thought. Yet the achievement of this skill in infancy is among t…
Learning to be bilingual
1 Few people would consider mastering more than one language a bad idea. Consequently, parents who speak different languages from each other are generally keen for their …
Life on Mars?
A. When scientists began observing Mars with their first primitive telescopes, they assumed from the start that the planet was peopled. The 18th-century astronomer Willia…
Listening to the Ocean
A. The oceans cover more than 70 per cent of the planet's surface, yet until quite recently we knew less about their depths than about the surface of the Moon. The Moon h…
Mammoth Kill
A. Although it’s hard to imagine in this age of urban sprawl and automobiles, North America once belonged to huge, elephant-like mammoths, camels, bear-sized beavers and …
Mapping the Mind
A. The often used phrase 'I'll believe it when I see it' betrays a very intimate fact of human nature. We are visual creatures and we rely on sight to serve as a judge of…
Mapungubwe
A. Mapungubwe, which was one of the first states in southern Africa, was formed by Bantu-speaking peoples who were farmers. The area controlled by the rulers of Mapungubw…
Margaret Preston: A Life in Australian Art
Margaret Preston: A Life in Australian Art M argaret Preston -- born Margaret Rose McPherson in Port Adelaide, South Australia, in 1875 -- stands as one of the most disti…
Mark Strizic: A Career of an Australian Photographer
Mark Strizic, who passed away in December last year, was the last representative of a remarkable generation of European emigre photographers who settled in Australia afte…
Marketing And Mind Control
While there had been a long tradition of giving rings as a commitment to marry, the custom of giving diamond engagement rings was in large part manufactured by one of the…
Marketing and Mind Control
Marketing and Mind Control How neuroscience and psychology are transforming the way companies try to influence consumer decisions he science of consumer behaviour has bee…