Test 1
Rain-forests and the implications for course design
Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests.
What Do Whales Feel?
An examination of the functioning of the senses in cetaceans, the group of mammals comprising whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Visual Symbols and the Blind
From a number of recent studies, it has become clear that blind people can appreciate the use of outlines and perspectives to describe the arrangement of objects and other surfaces in space.
Test 2
Lost for words
Many minority languages are on the danger list.
Alternative Medicine in Australia
The first students to study alternative medicine at university level in Australia began their four-year, full-time course at the University of Technology, Sydney, in early 1994.
Play is a serious business
Does play help develop bigger, better brains? Bryant Furlow investigates.
Test 3
Solution for: Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth
Although small-scale business training and credit programs have become more common throughout the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the need to direct such opportunities to young ...
Volcanoes-earth-shattering news
When Mount Pinatubo suddenly erupted on 9 June 1991, the power of volcanoes past and present again hit the headlines A Volcanoes are the ultimate earth-moving machinery.
Obtaining Linguistic Data
Many procedures are available for obtaining data about a language.
Test 4
How much higher how much faster?
Limits to human sporting performance are not yet in sight.
The nature and aims of archaeology
Archaeology is partly the discovery of the treasures of the past, partly the careful work of the scientific analyst, partly the exercise of the creative imagination.
The Problem of Scarce Resources
The problem of how health-care resources should be allocated or apportioned, so that they are distributed in both, the most just and most efficient way, is not a new one.