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March 2010

Dolphin: Our Love Affair With Our Favourite Cetacean

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A tremour ripples through the dark blue water. An onlooker fixes her gaze in wild wonderment as child-like emotions transfix her eyes to a tiny point on the water. A dorsal fin protrudes, breaching the blue skin. The onlooker’s feelings change from fascination to dread. These feelings once more morph becoming joyous upon the realisation

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1980′s Toys: Revolutionising The Entertainment Industry

Entertainment

Toys define a generation. They are part and parcel of our youth. When we reminisce about our childhood we are remembering a time of innocence and fun when we played for hours with our favourite toy. Invariably, every child thinks his or her toy is better than toys of his parents’. However, when we look back

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Quotes On Knowledge

Quotes

‘I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.’ Thomas Jefferson

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Bees: Collectors Of Honey And Providers Of And For Life

Insects

It is a beautiful warm sunny day and you are sitting on a park bench. The sky is blue, there are multi-coloured flowers gently swaying in the balmy breeze. The birds are singing sweetly in the trees, and all around, people are relaxing in the sun. Suddenly, you hear a scream, you look over where

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The Ant: Incredible Intelligence In Such A Tiny Creature

Insects

Unnoticed and unwatched, a small tiny creature slowly and steadily makes it way through an invisible road. However, it is not alone, it is joined by hundreds of similar creatures all busily making their way on some impenetrable and unknowable journey to an unimaginable world. The world of the ant.

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Box Jellyfish: The All-Seeing Creature With 24 Eyes

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“Box jellyfish (Cubozoans) are remarkable creatures. Growing to up to 3m (10 ft) in length and weighing up to 2kg (4lbs) they can live for up to one year. They are found in the warm waters of Northern Australia and the Indo-Pacific. However, what initially appears to be quite a simple animal, turns out to be a fascinating and highly complex organism.”

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Mercury: The Strange Planet That Supported Relativity

Space

A strange planet in many ways. Eerily like our Moon in both appearance and scale, Mercury is a dull, grey planet that bares a remarkable past. Mercury is the smallest of all the inner terrestrial planets. Yet, despite its size, it has earned its place in Greek and Roman mythology. Deified as the Messenger God, Mercury, the

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Michael Jackson: Personae’s Of A Talented But Controversial Superstar

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Slick, determined, and in search of perfection, Michael Jackson was the ultimate performer. Dogged and resolute on achieving his dreams, Jackson changed the face of music forever. Redefining and reinventing a new landscape, he managed to merge the best of television, dance and music into a sumptuous blend resulting in a brilliant art-form. He did so

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