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Environmental Protest Groups

Mon, 04 Jul 11

Facts about the state of the global environment read like quotes on a poster for an epic Hollywood movie. However, many people feel that governments are not taking the environment seriously enough.
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Student Power

Tue, 22 Mar 11

Who goes on strike? Is it factory workers? Miners? Bus drivers? How about... University or even school students?
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Danger: bird bath!

Tue, 22 Mar 11

In Britain, 1,207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people, more than twelve times as many, were injured by their sofa.
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Tobacco

Tue, 01 Mar 11

Tobacco is grown in more than one hundred countries. Tomatoes and tobacco are both members of the same botanical family. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals.
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Hallowe'en

Tue, 01 Mar 11

Find out some more about the traditional festival of Hallowe'en.

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Viral marketing

Mon, 11 May 09

When word of mouth turns to word of mouse… In December 1998, Iconocast gave the award for Internet marketing buzzword of the year to the term 'viral marketing', but what does it really mean?
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Motorcycles

Tue, 01 Jan 08

First motorcycles are like first loves; you never forget them. My first motorbike was a blue 175cc BSA Bantam and I fell in love at first sight.
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Asthma

Tue, 01 Jan 08

With World Health day on 7th April, we take a closer look at a very common health problem.
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Biotechnology

Tue, 01 Jan 08

The word was first used in 1919, but we have been using "biotechnology" for thousands of years. When eating a delicious cheese sandwich, you can thank biotechnology for the pleasure!
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Archaeology

Wed, 09 Jun 10

Most historians use paper evidence, such as letters, documents and photographs, but archaeologists learn from the objects left behind by the humans of long ago, like bones and ceramics.

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"Feeding the world" why we need rice

Mon, 20 Oct 08

Rice is low-fat and high in energy, and you can mix it with just about anything to make a wide variety of tasty nutritious dishes, ranging from sushi in Japan to risottos in northern Italy.
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A beach

Mon, 20 Jul 09

Imagine a beach: a quiet place, with only the noise of the sea and the gulls in the background. It’s a hot day. There is just the sea, the sun, and the beach: a little paradise.
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A Quick Guide to Dance

Tue, 01 Jan 08

Let's look at some different styles of dance.
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Acupuncture

Mon, 07 Sep 09

Acupuncture is a treatment for pain and illness. Thin needles are positioned just under the surface of the skin at special nerve centres around the body.
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Aeroplanes and global warming

Tue, 01 Jan 08

Have you ever looked out of the window of a plane at 30,000 feet at the vast expanses of empty ocean and uninhabited land, and wondered how people can have any major effect on the Earth?

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"Feeding the world" why we need rice
A beach
A Quick Guide to Dance
Acupuncture
Aeroplanes and global warming
Amelia Earhart
An HIV/AIDS success story
Animal conservation
April Fool's Day
Archaeology
Assassination
Asthma
Awards
Be your own investigative journalist
Bilingualism
Biotechnology
Building bridges
Calendars
Charities
Christmas – the good, the bad and the ugly

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