Mobile phones by Craig Duncan When Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it was a revolution in communication. For the first time, people could talk to each other over great distances almost as clearly as if they were in the...
Be your own investigative journalist by John Kuti News in the age of information We are often told that the age of the information economy has arrived. The idea is that intellectual work is becoming a more important source of wealth than manufacturin...
Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sins by Craig Duncan March 2005: its official vice pays. And its not even illegal. This month the Financial Times examined the spectacular growth of The Vice Fund, a Texas-based investment company which encourag...
These days there are thousands of charities round the world and it is possible to donate money to help people, animals and places. (A) The RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) was the first organisation dedicated to the well...
What did a dinosaur look like? By Linda Baxter Can we believe what we see? Dinosaur art has a long history. Life-size models in natural history museums, paintings and drawings, children's toys, and of course, the recent spate of computer generated fi...
Mountains By Richard Sidaway Here's a look at three popular mountain sports and some serious environmental problems facing mountains and the people who live on them. Snowboarding Thankfully, 'the winterstick' and 'the snurfer' never caught on as name...
The Nigerian Sound of Afrobeat By John Kuti My surname Kuti is a normal Hungarian surname it means something like Wells as in the places where you get water out of the ground. By a strange coincidence Kuti is also a name in Nigerian. In the Yoruba la...
Cryptology By Paul Millard Dbo zpv sfbe uijt? Jut b tfdsfu dpef! If you dont understand that, it is because I wrote it in a secret code. It isnt a very complicated code. I just changed every letter for the one following it in the alphabet. So, b is c...
Treasure! by Alison Driver When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased when it rained, because that meant I could go treasure hunting. Whats the connection between a wet day and a search for buried treasure? Well, its quite simple...
Student Power by Chris Rose When most people think of strikes, they think of factory workers asking for better pay and conditions, or perhaps refusing to work to support a colleague who has been unfairly sacked. It is not often that people associate...
