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29/07/2015

Another argument for a more holistic approach to learning: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/10/philosophy-for-children-pupils-maths-literacy

Primary school pupils across England take part in trial as part of ‘philosophy for children’ study, with pupil-led discussions on topics such as fairness and bullying

29/07/2015

Ecology, conservation and keeping the world fed: the honeybee is inconceivably important - but they're disappearing. Here's some way to explaining why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqA42M4RtxE

In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappe...

11/07/2015

Geography facts http://visual.ly/highest-lowest-points-earth

We still know very little about our Earth, especially what lies beneath us. This infographic lists the highest on lowest known points on Earth - both

24/03/2015

Elegant, beautiful display of the basic properties of liquids - properties that govern the world's atmospheric processes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joI79LEPgNQ

ScienceTake explains why droplets on a glass slide move as if they were alive. Produced by: James Gorman, Sofia Perpetua and Robin Lindsay Related article: h...

24/03/2015

The benefits of multilingualism http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/24/why-i-love-living-in-a-multilingual-town

Moving to a multilingual area at first feels like playing a game where everyone knows the rules, apart from you. As a language student however I quickly realised it was the perfect place for my year abroad

08/01/2015

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07/11/2014

The gaps between languages where meaning falls: 11 untranslatable words from languages other than English

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07/11/2014

The skin is our largest organ and the things it's designed to do are fascinating: http://thumbnails-visually.netdna-ssl.com/50-incredible-facts-about-skin_50b3dc8c136a0_w1500.jpg

07/11/2014

The road to Darwin's theory of evolution started with Danish geologist Nicholas Steno.

Not that you will have heard of him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If4I3aF1PRg

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-most-groundbreaking-scientist-you-ve-never-heard-of-addison-anderson Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nic...

01/09/2014

Answers about our own world found on the other side of the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpzEsgSBUqc

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-we-can-learn-from-galaxies-far-far-away-henry-lin In a fun, excited talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at someth...

30/08/2014

Struggling to concentrate? Musings on the perfect daily routine for writing (thinking): http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/08/25/the-psychology-of-writing-daily-routine/

How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long-term memory through the right retrie

29/08/2014

'What gives poems a "vivid life" of their own, such that "nothing can be added to them or taken away without maiming and perhaps even killing them"?'

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/29/ted-hughes-alice-oswald-animal-poetry-bestiary

Alice Oswald on compiling a bestiary of Ted Hughes's animal poems