Test 1
A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life
The control of fire was the first and perhaps greatest of humanity’s steps towards a life-enhancing technology.
Zoo conservation programmes
One of London Zoo’s recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality.
Architecture - Reaching for the Sky
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A building reflects the scientific and technological achievements of the age as well as the ideas and aspirations of the ...
Test 2
Right and left-handedness in humans
Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right-handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as ...
Migratory Beekeeping
To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation’s 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring, migrating north to find more flowers for their bees. Besides ...
Tourism
Tourism, holidaymaking and travel are these days more significant social phenomena than most commentators have considered.
Test 3
Spoken Corpus comes to life
The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types - usually bespectacled - who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer ...
Moles happy as homes go underground
The first anybody knew about Dutchman Frank Siegmunds and his family was when workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass.
A Workaholic Economy
FOR THE first century or so of the industrial revolution, increased productivity led to decreases in working hours. Employees who had been putting in 12-hour days, six days a week, found their time ...
Test 4
GLASS - Capturing the dance of light
Glass, in one form or another, has long been in noble service to humans.
Why some women cross the finish line ahead of men
Women who apply for jobs in middle or senior management have a higher success rate than men, according to an employment survey.
Population viability analysis
To make political decisions about the extent and type of forestry in a region it is important to understand the consequences of those decisions.