Mind Music Scientists investigate ‘earworms’, the music we can’t get out of our head A Ever had a song stuck in your head, playing on an endless loop? Scientists call them ‘involuntary musical images’, or ‘earworms, and a wave of new research is shining light on why they occur and what can be learned from …
Australian parrots and their adaptation to habitat change A Parrots are found across the tropic and in all southern hemisphere continents except Antarctica, but nowhere do the display such a richness of diversity and form as in Australia. One- sixth of the world’s 345 parrot species are found there, and Australia has long been renowned for …
THE STORY OF COFFEE A Coffee was first discovered in Eastern Africa in an area we know today as Ethiopia. A popular legend refers to a goat herder by the name of Kaldi, who observed his goats acting unusually friskily after eating berries from a bush. Curious about this phenomenon, Kaldi tried eating the berries …
|| E-training A E-learning is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, web-based training, and technology-delivered instruction, which can be a great benefit to corporate e-learning. IBM, for instance, claims that the institution of its e-training program, Basic Blue, whose purpose is to train new managers, saved the company in the range …
Traditional Maori medicines The Maori are the indigenous people of the islands of New Zealand. Their traditional medicine, which is believed to date back as far as the 13th century, was a system of healing that was passed down through the generations orally. It comprised diverse practices and placed an emphasis on the spiritual dimension …
Learning to Walk These days the feet of a typical city dweller rarely encounter terrain any more uneven than a crack in the pavement. While that may not seem like a problem, it turns out that by flattening our urban environment we have put ourselves at risk of a surprising number of chronic illnesses and …
Chinstrap Penguin Population In The Last 50 Years Question 1 – 7 The Reading Passage has 8 paragraphs labelled A-H. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-H in boxes. NB You may use any letter more than once. 1 : ABCDEFGH the highest temperatures ever. 2 : ABCDEFGH the difference between current and past records …
Why Do We Touch Strangers So Much? A History Of The Handshake Offers Clues For thousands of years, the handshake has been used for different purposes. Question 1-7 Choose TRUE if the statement agrees with the information given in the text, choose FALSE if the statement contradicts the information, or choose NOT GIVEN if there …
Toxic Stress: A Slow Wear And Tear Question 1-6 The reading passage has six paragraphs, A-F. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number (i – vii) in boxes. List of Headings i The controversy around the word “toxic” ii Effects of different types of stress …
What is the secret of a long life? This year, the number of retired pensioners in the UK exceeded the number of under 18 years old for the first time in history. That’s remarkable in its own right, but the real ‘population explosion’ has been among the oldest of the old — the centenarians. In …
