BBC Knowledge 2017 02
We increasingly rely on social media to talk to friends, GPS to navigate and the web for information. But, asks Jo Carlowe, is t ...
| THE BRAIN SCIENCE Attention PHONES BUZZING with text messages, Facebook notifications and news alerts continually tempt the wo ...
Memory WITH PHONE NUMBERS, routes and facts just a touch away, we’re becoming less reliant on our memory – and German neuroscien ...
GETTY X4 Sleep WE NOW SPEND more time on our devices than we do sleeping. According to an August 2015 Ofcom survey, we engage in ...
Reading WHEN WE READ, we construct a mental representation of the text in our minds, much as we do when we look at terrain and c ...
Navigation IN 2000, a study found that taxi drivers who acquire The Knowledge, which requires memorising thousands of London str ...
ABOUT THE MAGAZINE: (TICK APPLICABLE BOX) Q1. Are you a subscriber of BBC Knowledge? Yes, I subscribe to the print version ...
Q13. Listed below are all the sections which appear in BBC Knowledge. For each of them, please tick the column which comes close ...
| FROM THE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY SOCIAL MEDIA We posed the question to our BBC Knowledge Community and here are some of the intere ...
IS TECHNOLOGY CHANGING STUDENTS’ BRAINS? NEW! Panel of Principals is a knowledge circle that taps into the collective wisdom of ...
“The brain is now being hardwired for speed and surface knowledge, not deep thinking” “It’s not just genetics, but also our thou ...
58 BBC Wildlife October 2016 Words by Mike Unwin PO RTFOLIO 52 February 2017 | PORTFOLIO NATURE Early days The first few weeks o ...
October 2016 BBC Wildlife 59 A bat-eared fox in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve watches over her 13-day-old kit, newly emerged from ...
60 February 2017 | PORTFOLIO NATURE An eight-week-old cheetah cub plays with its mother in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve. Some sci ...
A young Hoffman’s two-toed sloth at the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Costa Rica, settles into the hammock of its mother’s underside ...
| PORTFOLIO NATURE In cats, such as the lion (left, Maasai Mara Reserve, Kenya) and the serval (right, Tanzania) the eyes don’t ...
A newborn giraffe – pictured here in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve – stands nearly two metres in height. Though able to run within ...
| PORTFOLIO NATURE Being fewer than three weeks old, this calf in Kenya’s Maasai Mara Reserve doesn’t yet have control of its tr ...
Suzi Eszterhas is an award- winning wildlife photographer based in California. She is well known for documenting family life in ...
S UDHA Murty laughs a lot. She laughs without restraint, with spontaneity. Heard over the phone, it’s laughter that makes you pi ...
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