
	Magazine A selection of recorded articles covering a wide range of topics of interest. They are suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.

Magazine

A selection of recorded articles covering a wide range of topics of interest. They are suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.

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Amelia Earhart

"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." (Amelia Earhart)
Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling was the only person who has ever won two (unshared) Nobel Prizes: Chemistry in 1954 and a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is also known as "the vitamin C man".
The Kernewek success story

Cornish is a language that is listed as 'extinct' in the UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages but which has experienced a remarkable revival in recent years.
Wormholes

What is a wormhole? A wormhole is a passageway between points in a 'folded' universe. Imagine a big piece of paper, with A written at one end and B written at the other…
Awards

The Nobels are the originals, of course. Not all awards are as noble as the Nobels. There are now hundreds of awards and awards ceremonies for all kinds of things.

Creepy Crawlies

I screamed. Then, my heart pounding, and probably still screaming, I grabbed a handy can of insecticide. He ran at me but I jumped out of the way and he scuttled out of the kitchen…
Cryptology

Secret codes are not a new idea. They are almost as old as writing itself. We know that the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks used them, as did the Arabs of a thousand years ago.
Danger: bird bath!

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.
Death

Death is something that everybody has in common. We are all born, we all live and we all die. However, the customs, beliefs and traditions surrounding death can differ greatly between different groups of people, different parts of the world or different stages throughout history.
Development

Development is happening everywhere around the world and it has started to be called "globalisation". There is a serious argument that this process is unfair and that it is causing a lot of poverty...


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The Island of Mauritius
The Kernewek success story
The life of trees
The meaning of "tingo"
The Moon
The Nigerian Sound of Afrobeat
The Olympic Games - then and now
The Post
The Winter Olympics
Theatre
Tobacco
Town or country mouse?
Trains: past, present and future
Treasure!
Twins
Universities
Venomous animals
Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sins
Viral marketing
Waltzing Matilda


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