Test 1
Let's go bats
Bats have a problem: how to find their way around in the dark.
Making every drop count
The history of human civilisation is entwined with the history of the ways we have learned to manipulate water resources.
Educating Psyche
Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning.
Test 2
Why pagodas don't fall down?
In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how have Japan's tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings - 500 or so wooden pagodas - remained standing for centuries? Records show that ...
The true cost of food
For more than forty years the cost of food has been rising.
Makete integrated rural transport project
The disappointing results of many conventional road transport projects in Africa led some experts to rethink the strategy by which rural transport problems were to be tackled at the beginning of the ...
Test 3
Ant intelligence
When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys.
Population movements and genetics
Study of the origins and distribution of human populations used to be based on archaeological and fossil evidence.
Plans to protect the forests of Europe
Forests are one of the main elements of our natural heritage.
Test 4
Pulling strings to build pyramids
No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built.
Endless harvest
More than two hundred years ago, Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the Aleutian Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific, and learned of a land mass that lay farther to the ...
Effects of noise
In general, it is plausible to suppose that we should prefer peace and quiet to noise.