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Connecting with Culture: Science & Nature

Welcome to the Science & Nature section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

House Rules

  • Date:

    25-06-2010

  • Author:

    Ben Care

We Brits have a complex relationship with our houses. The need to get a foot on, and then climb up the property ladder is almost taken for granted. Huge amounts of time, money, physical and emotional energy are daily ploughed into maintaining our houses...

The Science of Reverence

  • Date:

    04-06-2010

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

There are many artefacts the world over whose origins lie shrouded in mystery. Take Stonehenge, for instance: how did the stones get there? Did Druids drag them from quarries in Wales, were they transported by UFOs, or is the assembly of monoliths simply the result of student antics during a Bronze Age 'Fresher's Week'?

A Sea of Troubles

  • Date:

    19-03-2010

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

Back in the mid-twentieth century you could buy pocket-sized booklets in the I Spy series. There were I Spy books for dogs, railways, countryside, seaside and many others. I think we could do with one for plastics...

Snowflakes and Earthquakes

  • Date:

    15-01-2010

  • Author:

    Nigel Hopper

Lately, there's been more talk about the weather than is normal - even for the British. Day after day there has been an avalanche of media coverage about the impact of the snow...

Seven Gaunt Cattle

  • Date:

    04-12-2009

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

In the old days, news spread by word of mouth. Thus, Jacob, when the land of Canaan was gripped by famine, heard that there was corn in Egypt. Reunited with Joseph, he and his family settled in Egypt. And the rest, as they say, is history...

Stop Climate Chaos

Climate Change?

Holiday Reading

Ponder the Painted Lady

Friends of the Earth - and of Each Other?

Dignity for the Dying?

Treasure Hunt

Climate Change, Stewardship and Renewal

Charles Darwin

A Healthy Appetite

Life in Cold Blood

Anita Roddick

A Convenient Truth

Green Muscle

Capitalism as if the World Matters

The Science of Aliens

Hurricane Rita and Your Thermostat

The Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping

Sharing God's Planet

The Tsunami

The Road Less Travelled

You Are What You Eat

The Day After Tomorrow

Life on Mars

The tyranny of choice

Out of this World? The View of Mars

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