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Al Hair Archaeological Site
Bulletin No. 36 contains a short article on flint finds at Al Hair, north of Hili and just off the Al Ain-Dubai highway. I visited the site with Bish Brown…
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…
Bedouin Youth, Past and Present
(The following is the gist of a talk presented to the ENHG at the end of 1986. -- Ed.) Sheikha Al Maskery's thesis is that UAE Bedouin youth have been…
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…
A Dolphin Adventure
There are very few places in the world where humans can swim with dolphins, so we should consider ourselves privileged to have the "Dolphin Adventure" saltwater pool so close to…
Just how smart are dolphins?
How smart are dolphins? Anuschka de Rohan reviews the evidence, including an underwater-tv encounter between a dolphin and David Attenborough. At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly…
Solitary dolphins – what can we learn?
Other people are already collecting records of cetacean sightings in general in Ireland: the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group maintains it own database and submits summaries to the Sea Watch…
Swimming with wild dolphins
We neither encourage you to go swimming with wild dolphins nor do we advise you against it. Each situation is different and is a matter of personal choice. However, here…
Boating with dolphins
Dolphins love to bow-ride boats, getting a free ‘surf’ from the pressure wave generated by the forward motion of the boat. In the ‘natural’ situation, they do the same trick…
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The…
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of…
Globalization
Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term “globalization” has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In…
Tiny new species of human unearthed
The remains of a tiny and hitherto unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago have been discovered on an Indonesian island. The discovery has been…
Art Deco: High Style
The glamorous look marked skylines from New York to Shanghai and streamlined everything from film and fashion to jewelry and automobiles Art Deco was the name given, long after the…
Poster Children
Montreal-based poster-design firm Seripop is coming soon to a wall near you. When Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau set up a silk-screening studio in their Montreal apartment, the last thing…
Mass Consumption
American designers tackle the issue of obesity. International design biennials ask a lot of their curators—bring us your best designers, but introduce us to new faces. Tell us what’s happening…
Jun-ichi Arai: The Futurist of Fabric
Blending technology and ancient arts, the 72-year-old “dream weaver” continues to push textile design into unexplored realms. By Paul Makovsky and Mary Murphy Jun-ichi Arai isn’t a household name in…
Portrait
Portrait and figure painting were Katy Kianush's first love. This has provided her with an endless and challenging source of study. The faces and figures are created in a fresh…
Handicrafts as local art
An exhibit of Bolivian folk art evokes local cultures and environments In the same way that a Wall Street banker would never show up at work sporting beads and sandals,…
Portrait Painter of the Republic
A dazzling Gilbert Stuart retrospective includes paintings never before seen in public When the largest exhibition ever of works by Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) opens this month at the Metropolitan Museum…