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Health & Fitness > Nutrition & Health Issues How to eat well on the run: 2 of 19
In this fast-forward world, when are we not on the run? Two or three hours of commuting daily, keeping up with a hectic family schedule: it can be too easy for eating habits to suffer. Just because you are constantly on the go, however, doesn't mean you don't have to eat well.If you have time, the evening before, make yoursel... More..
Relationships & Family > Online Dating Internet intimacy: Reality or illusion: 3 of 27
Does distance make the heart grow fonder?Most of us are familiar with the idea of 'space', the friendship which works precisely because it understands not only the need to be together but also the need to be apart. Many longer lasting friendships have evolved a comfortable balance between the two. However, a friendship in whi... More..
Sciences > Sciences (Other) A guide to recent dinosaur discoveries: 1 of 9
Several new dinosaurs have been discovered in 2009. The discovery of Australia's largest ever concentration of dinosaur bones in Queensland helped to make it a particularly good year for the southern hemisphere. The three new early Cretaceous dinosaur species identified from the Queensland find include the first new Australia... More..
Health & Fitness > Health Risks Baby sign language basics: 1 of 9
While non-verbal communication between baby and parent occurs almost from the moment of birth, language skills take a little longer. However, a child does begin to process language concepts long before developing the fine muscle skills and breath control required to shape words, perhaps even as early as six months of age. Bab... More..
Sciences > Biology (Other) The research on whether orangutans led the way to walking upright: 1 of 9
Within the theory of natural selection, it is generally believed that a species sometimes alters its abilities or appearance over time, as future generations are born with different adaptations to changing environments: even to the point of evolving into one or more entirely new species. One specific application of this theor... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Belonging: 1 of 9
The circlesitting aroundthe circlethe ones I knowhave leftleaving me namelessemptya solid vacuum whom others talk aroundlaughingchattingthe words float aimlesslyaround the black coffeesomeone spills itbutit doesn't matterthe room is alivewith chittering batsflittingin the shadowsof the lit roomtheir words are emptythin echoes... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Celebrations & Holidays (Other) A brief history of Flag Day: 3 of 25
"Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation."- the Second Continental Congress, 1777While the Stars and Stripes has proudly been flown over the soil of the United States of America ever sinc... More..
Arts & Humanities > Ancient History The Hades of Ancient Greece: 1 of 8
The strict meaning of Hades has changed over the thousands of years covered by ancient Greek history through the late Classical period; and then further when it drifted into popular Christian use by way of Virgil and Dante.The Hades of ancient Greece can refer either to the god of death, the god of the underworld where all hu... More..
Sciences > Astronomy The tenth planet: 1 of 8
Now that the International Astronomical Union has redefined a planet specifically as a body which is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion) and which has also cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals, there will probably never be a tenth planet. For that ... More..
Sciences > Genetics Do genetics determine human intelligence?: 1 of 8
Although it has long been known that genetic errors such as Down's syndrome and phenylketonuria often impact negatively on intelligence as well, the extent to which normal genes play a role in determining human intelligence is much less clear. To determine what, if any, role genetics plays in human intelligence, the effects o... More..