Tag: Short Article
Children’s Numerical Skills People appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock …
Modern American Universities Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose …
Evolution of Sleep Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend …
The War between Britain and France In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the …
The Nobel Academy For the last 82years, Sweden’s Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great …
A Rare fossil record The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rare occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed …
Skyscrapers and Environment In the late 1960’s, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that …
Museums From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have …
