Planned communities are carefully thought out new towns or developments on previously undeveloped sites. All the building and organisation is planned before development begins. This is in contrast to how towns and cities usually develop, which is more organic and ad…
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Dolphins have long been known to have acute eyesight and hearing. They are also curious and inquisitive. Now researchers with the Wild Dolphin Project have taken advantage of those facts to recruit wild dolphins into developing a common language, by…
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The Neanderthal Debate Mass extinctions are more common than many realize. In fact, the scientific community has discovered evidence of five such extinctions throughout the 3.6 billion year history of life on this planet. Some speculate there may have been…
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Increasing suburbanistation from the 1940s onwards led to increasing racial segregation and intensified class divides. The two are linked and the root cause is the same. Particular groups of people would move into the suburbs, and others wouldn’t. This intensified…
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The Stone Age is the now somewhat redundant collective expression for the periods in man’s history more properly defined as the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic and covers a time span of more than two million years. It includes the period…
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Neuroplasticity A stress ball can illustrate how the brain can change to enable it to self-repair and thinking to change. A person going through stress might grab a stress ball and squeeze it in their hand. When they remove their…
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Cryptography is a fascinating world of secret codes with embedded mysterious messages. The Caesar cipher (also known as the shift cipher) is one such methodology that was first recorded as being used by Julius Caesar during his time of leadership…
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If you are involved in the planning process of a new development then designing a walkable neighbourhood might be high on your list of priorities. With fuel prices shooting up, people wishing to move away from dependence on oil, and…
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All of life is dependent upon nature. When we harm nature, we harm all living beings and systems, including human beings. Humankind, despite whether or not one denies global warming, most certainly has destroyed many ecosystems which are the ultimate…
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A new species has recently been discovered in China. The species is human, and is possibly a new trail in the long evolutionary line from the neanderthals to modern existence. They have been called the “Red Deer Cave People” because…
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