BBC Knowledge Asia Edition - December 2014
rancis Huntrodds and his wife Mary died within five hours of one another on their 80th birthday – their joint 80th birthday. The ...
maths) and you’d be daft to gamble your money. If a third mate joins you, the chance that none of you shares a birthday falls to ...
Worldwide, there are 17 earthquakes per year of magnitude 7 or above. But in 2010 there were 24 of them. Why? Was Nature especia ...
same university. Other popular routes include through work, through friends and online. All these could make you more likely to ...
The chances of dying on your shared birthday Famous people who died on their birthdays include actress Ingrid Bergman (29 August ...
BY OUR EXPERT PANEL YOUR QUESTI0NS ANSWERED & Susan is a visiting psychology professor at the University of Plymouth. Her bo ...
Yes, if a recent experiment is to be believed. In an attempt to locate the source of an epileptic patient’s seizures, doctors at ...
& There are 7 billion humans and around 200 billion birds in the world. That seems like a lot of two-legged animals, but non ...
How do non- green plants photosynthesise? What has the discovery of the Higgs boson taught us? Most reports of the discovery of ...
& The Earth’s atmosphere is in constant motion, and the density of its numerous layers can vary rapidly. So the refraction ( ...
Whatever happened to cold fusion? According to Einstein’s famous equation E=mc^2 , if two small atomic nuclei can be fused toget ...
& In Numbers 0.15mm is the length of the smallest flying insect, a fairyfly called the Kikiki huna. Like all fairyflies, it ...
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Resource A feast for the mind They say we learn something new every day, but have you ever wondered how our brains actually hold ...
The Marshmallow Test Understanding Self-Control And How To Master It Walter Mischel Bantam Press In the 1960s, psychologist Walt ...
A cave engraving found in Gibraltar may be the best evidence yet for Neanderthal art. What symbol does the etching resemble? a) ...
QUIZ ANSWERS HOW DID YOU SCORE? 0-4 Dog’s dinner 5-9 Dogged effort 10-13 Top dog ACROSS 9 Skid like an amphibious aircraft? (9) ...
ome of the world’s top scientists start to get twitchy every time the phone rings at this time of the year. Will it finally be T ...
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