Extract from Arabia Felix
The Road to Ubar "Look, Sahib," they cried, "There is the road to Ubar!" "Ubar?" I wondered. "It was a great city, our fathers have told us, that existed of…
Abu Dhabi to North Yemen Overland — April 1982
by Ian and June Harner The choice was eventually made, and two weeks by road to North Yemen triumphed over a three week package tour to Japan. Next followed the…
All Chips Great and Small for AMD
AMD is approaching the semiconductor industry from both sides of the spectrum. The Sunnyvale, firm inked a deal Tuesday with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Quote, Chart) out of Singapore to augment…
HyperTransport Broadens Its HPC Scope
A technology group working on faster data transfer between devices announced a new specification targeted at improving high-performance computing systems. The HyperTransport Technology Consortium said today that it has approved…
Japan: Making 3G Look As Slow As Smoke Signals
DoCoMo is already testing 4G technology that blows by current data speed limits Mamoru Sawahashi has been driving in circles for 16 months, but he feels like he's making plenty…
Article on stopping school violence
Understanding why our children/students are resorting to physical violence in school and finding ways to stop the violence and learn to heal. Forty years ago the biggest problems in the…
The Empty Quarter
On 31st March 1977 at a public meeting held in the Community Hall, (which the ENHG largely organized) Mr. Wilfred Thesiger introduced a showing of the BP film “The Empty…
Student discipline: is suspension the answer?
Is student discipline as simple as suspension? What alternative solutions are there to the problem of misbehaving students? In the midst of escalating violence in our schools, many adults are…
Education Information: School choice vouchers
Not everyone has a choice when it comes to selecting the right schools for their children. Financial and regional considerations prevent some parents from having school choices. Public schools no…
Library impact on children
Take your child to the library for books. What age is a good age to teach them how to find books & teaching them how to act there. The library…
The necessity of education and the importance of maintaining pedagogics as an independent discipline
Contents: Introduction 1. Philosophical anthropology and pedagogics 2. Pedagogics in an era of (post)modern developments 3. What is 'modern youth'? 4. Once again: what is education? 5. A renewed appeal…
History and American education today
The education system in America An inside look at the education system in America. Just how well do our schools do at teaching history, and just what are our kids…
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avast! Virus Cleaner is available free for every user. This tool will help you remove selected worm infections from your computer. Free virus & worm removal tool If, despite all…
High school reform
This piece provides a view of the areas of the American high school system that need to be reformed in order to achieve improvement. It seems as though any time…
Doing Something About the Climate
The Century in Review: Twain's remark about the weather is no longer a laughing matter Mark Twain supposedly wrote, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."…
Dinosaur Extinction
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs A Research Program at the Milwaukee Public Museum by Peter M. Sheehan Curator of Geology EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted without illustrations from LORE…
The Pedagogic Challenges of the Future
Authors: Lt Col Schunck and Maj L. Nielsson It is evident that new opportunities offered to people as described in the “Paradigm of tomorrow” require an effort from each one…
History of the Buraimi Oasis
by Nick Saines Geologist, Regional Development Committee, Buraimi. Introduction For hundreds, if not thousands, of years the Al Ain – Buraimi area was known as the ‘Buraimi Oasis’. The Buraimi…
John Dewey – My Pedagogic Creed
John Dewey's famous declaration concerning education. First published in The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3 (January 16, 1897), pages 77-80. ARTICLE I--What Education Is I believe that all education…
Collecting rocks
Rocks Tell the Story of the Earth The Earth is made of rock, from the tallest mountains to the floor of the deepest ocean. Thousands of different types of rocks…