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4 Jul 2009
A Joint Love Letter to Science
By Alom Shaha
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s the point of studying science?" - I set out to discover how leading scientists, writers and science teachers would reply. The answers were...
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By Alom Shaha
Why is science important? As a teacher – faced with the inevitable question: "what’s the point of studying science?" - I set out to discover how leading scientists, writers and science teachers would reply. The answers were...
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From Molecule to Medicine - video - Pharmaceutical research and development is a complex endeavor. A video report from Johnson and Johnson
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Cannabis: Medicine or Malady?
Anxiety, depression, nausea, suspicion, lethargy, memory loss, schizophrenia, infertility; these are just some of the potential side-effects of, cannabis. But it's not all bad. Cannabis, to the...
Anxiety, depression, nausea, suspicion, lethargy, memory loss, schizophrenia, infertility; these are just some of the potential side-effects of, cannabis. But it's not all bad. Cannabis, to the...
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The 2000 Year Old Computer
You know the feeling when there’s something that nags away at the back...
You know the feeling when there’s something that nags away at the back...
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Being hospitalized in a wartorn country, with an unfamiliar alphabet, was strangely pleasant...
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Nostradamus wrote 942 quatrains (4 line long poems) in his lifetime which he organised into...
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Venus Transiens
by Amy Lowell
Tell me,Was Venus more beautifulThan you are,When she toppedThe crinkled waves,Drifting...
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Venus Transiens
by Amy Lowell
Tell me,Was Venus more beautifulThan you are,When she toppedThe crinkled waves,Drifting...
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