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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rock'n'roll grandads by Chris Rose In 2005 The Rolling Stones released an album called A Bigger Bang. Many critics, as usual, chose it as their favourite of the year. This isnt very surprising, but if you think that A Bigger Bang was their 25th album
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Motorcycles By Nik Peachey It had the standard BSA chrome petrol tank with the BSA insignia on each side. It was already older than I was. It had been built in the early 60s at a time when the British motorcycle industry was at its peak. By the 80's
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Collecting things - My Grandmother's elephant By Chris Wilson My grandmother had a beautiful elephant carved out of sandalwood on her dressing table which I secretly used to covet. I wanted it more than anything in the world. It was about the size of
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Illiteracy By Linda Baxter Ive written this article and youre reading it. So we are members of the same club. Were both literate - we can read and write. And we both probably feel that literacy is essential to our lives. But millions of people all ov
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Venomous animals Sea wasp Despite the glorious semi-tropical climate, nobody swims at beaches in the northern half of Australia from September to May. For there, all but invisible as it cruises in the calm tropical shallows, is the world's most dange
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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
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Rescue at sea the RNLI by John Russell Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! These words come from a famous hymn by William Whiting: 'Eternal Father Strong to Save'. It is better known as the Naval Hymn and is popular with m
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Rivers: what do they mean to you? Are they just something boring you learn about in geography at school? For many people the answer is probably yes, but anyone who has ever lived beside one and gone for walks along its bank, swum in it, gone fishing,
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The Island of Mauritius God first made Mauritius and from it, he created Paradise. Mark Twain 1896 Where is it? Over ten million years ago, the waters of the Indian Ocean boiled. Massive volcanoes erupted miles underneath the surface. Huge amounts of
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