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Does Class Size Matter?
A Of all the ideas for improving education, few are as simple or attractive as reducing the number of pupils per teacher. Unlike competing proposals for reform, class-siz…
Dolls Through the Ages
A What is today a simple children’s toy has a surprisingly rich history. Dolls have been a part of humankind for thousands of years. Often depicting religious figures, or…
E-Training: The Digital Revolution in Workplace
E-Training: The Digital Revolution in Workplace Learning How online and technology-based learning is reshaping how organisations develop their people A. For most of the t…
Economic Evolution
Economic Evolution How economic thought has changed over three centuries — and why the questions it grapples with matter more than ever A. Economics — the study of how in…
Education Philosophy
Education Philosophy How different theories of what education is for have shaped what happens in classrooms — and continue to shape the debates of today A. Education is o…
Effects of changes in world population
14 A Human fertility rates around the world are dropping for a variety of complex reasons. While the population itself continues to increase, the rate of increase is slow…
Egypt's ancient boat-builders
A. The scenes carved into a wall of an Egyptian temple dating from the 15th century BC, tell of a remarkable sea voyage from a mysterious land known as Punt, or 'Land of …
Ensuring Our Future Food Supply
Ensuring Our Future Food Supply How a growing global population and a changing climate are straining the world's ability to feed itself -- and what can be done A The chal…
Farmers
An iconic chain store in New Zealand reaches a milestone A. The chain of stores known as Farmers began one hundred years ago as a mail order company. Today the Farmers ch…
Fear of the Unknown
American companies fear that innovation is the secret of success — and that they cannot innovate A. In the small Umagic office in midtown Manhattan, a team of 30 computer…
Finding a Way Out of a Food Desert
Finding a Way Out of a Food Desert A food desert is a geographic area in which residents have limited access to affordable, nutritious food -- typically defined as an urb…
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Fishbourne Roman Palace F ishbourne Roman Palace, located in the village of Fishbourne in West Sussex, England, is the largest known Roman residence ever discovered north…
Fishbourne Roman Palace
The largest Roman villa in Britain Fishbourne Roman Palace is in the village of Fishbourne near Chichester in West Sussex, England. This large palace was built in the 1st…
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Fishbourne Roman Palace is in the village of Fishbourne in West Sussex, England. This large palace was built in the 1st century AD, around thirty years after the Roman co…
Floating Architecture
Floating Architecture How building on water is shifting from a novelty to a serious solution for cities facing land scarcity and rising seas A For most of human history, …
Flower Power
A. Why do we give people flowers? To offer condolence to those who are grieving. To celebrate. To woo. To ask for forgiveness. We all know intuitively that there is somet…
Flying the Coast
A. Cut off from the rest of the country by a range of mountains, the west coast of New Zealand's South Island -or the "Coast" as it is commonly known -was the country's "…
Footprints in the Muds of Time
The dinosaurs may have risen to power in as little as 10,000 years ... Everybody knows that the dinosaurs became extinct as a result of a large asteroid; something big hi…
Game Theory
Computer software that models human behaviour can make forecasts, outsmart rivals, and transform negotiations A. According to game theory, our chances of success in negot…
Global Warming
Global Warming The science of how Earth's climate is changing — its causes, its mechanisms, and its consequences A. Global warming — the long-term increase in Earth's ave…
Global Warming in Europe
It was that summer, scientists now realise, when global warming at last made itself unmistakably felt. People in the Northern Hemisphere knew that summer 2003 was remarka…
Global Warming in New Zealand
Global Warming in New Zealand ew Zealand occupies a unique position in global climate science. As a small, isolated nation in the South Pacific, it is at once particularl…
Good Nuggets of Australia
Australia was, and is, home to some of the most amazing discoveries of gold the world has seen. This is mainly due to the fact that found on the surface. Some finds chang…
Grimm's Fairy Tales
A. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, named their story collection Children's and Household Tales and published the first of its seven editions in Germany in 1812. Th…