Educators must realise that providing knowledge and experience is an on-going, two-way process As the academic year closes down (with the summer session just ending),…

The perils notwithstanding, several thousands are keen on signing up for the project When the Mars One project announced that it planned to enlist volunteers…

digital age requires educators to constantly innovate and evolve Do you know the joke about the father who keeps telling his children, “When I was…

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Disappointments and accidents are actually good for you, they give you experience and strength and forge your character This is the season for graduations. My…

Mistaking a placebo effect for an actual cure is putting one’s health at peril Homeopathy is an ‘alternative medicine’ that is practised by millions of…

Setting thermostats at 25 degrees Celsius will not kill anyone. Clearly, continuing extensive A/C usage will significantly contribute to the warming of the planet When…

Understanding the laws of physics can often help us get closer to the secrets behind a world record or a gold medal haul In a…

Be it Higgs Boson or Mars, smart communication makes complex theories fascinating In the past month, two major scientific events captured the public’s mind and…

An average individual today receives in one hour the amount of data that a 17th-century person received in a lifetime Is the flood of information…

Books are losing out to smartphones, internet and television in the arab world Last December, we Arabs were shocked to hear that we (on average)…

Obama and romney show marked ideological and agenda differences on subject The US presidential election has heated up with three debates between Barack Obama and…