Test 1
Johnson's dictionary
For the century before Johnson's Dictionary was published in 1775, there had been concern about the state of the English language.
Nature or Nurture?
A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for their ...
The truth about the environment
For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse.
Test 2
BAKELITE : The birth of modern plastics
In 1907, Leo Hendrick Baekeland, a Belgian scientist working in New York, discovered and patented a revolutionary new synthetic material.
What's so funny?
The joke comes over the headphones: 'Which side of a dog has the most hair?" The left.
The birth of scientific English
World science is dominated today by a small number of languages, including Japanese, German and French, but it is English which is probably the most popular global language of science.
Test 3
Early childhood education
New Zealand's National Party spokesman on education, Dr Lockwood Smith, recently visited the US and Britain.
Disappering delta
The fertile land of the Nile delta is being eroded along Egypt's Mediterranean coast at an astounding rate, in some parts estimated at 100 metres per year.
The return of artificial intelligence
It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performing human tasks such as problem-solving and pattern-recognition.
Test 4
The impact of wilderness tourism
The market for tourism in remote areas is booming as never before.
Flawed beauty: The problem with toughened glass
On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk shattered without warning and fell ...
The effects of light on plant and animal species
Light is important to organisms for two different reasons.