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1992/1993 saw the celebration of 2500 years since the birth of democracy. This sparked debate amongst the academic community as dating the anniversary to be that of 2500 years meant t...

Why do we have to eat? - This simple question leads to lots of discoveries which are hidden in our body. Organisms like us (well, not just us - this covers bacteria in our guts to bi...

"A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal" Nikola Tesla, inventor, 1935 A man gifted wi...

In the classical accounts of Marx, Simmel, and Polanyi, money is seen as rendering everything quantifiable according to a 'universal yardstick' of value, permitting comparisons among ...

TIPS FOR LEARNING CHINESE 1. Be aware of tones Mandarin is a tonal language, which means that speaking the same word with different pitch will give the word different meanings. ...

These are some of the fantastic reasons for your kids to start learning a foreign language such as Spanish as young as possible! Did you know approximately 406 million people spe...

How has the cultural trauma of the Holocaust been understood and what are the sociological implications? In 1945, the Holocaust was not the 'Holocaust' (Alexander 2012:24). It was ...

Introduction Education has always been an important part of childhood, upbringing and life in general and is what allows a person to prosper and succeed. Now due to information te...

The so called spectrum bands (chunks of frequencies) are very limited resources. In 1888 Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves, which are capable of trave...

Recently I have had several conversations with pupils, parents, University students, teachers and other tutors in which the recurring theme has been the importance of proficiency in E...