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TED – Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers 31 Mar 2008 | 02:43 pm
I’ve been following the lectures on TED for a couple of years, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in ideas, technology and design. TED is an organisation that holds lectures by inn...
New website to protect kids from junk food marketing 31 Mar 2008 | 02:35 pm
From the website: Children are vulnerable to advertising. They are less able than adults to fully understand that the purpose of advertising is not to inform but to persuade, and to ultimately sell a ...
Experts say marketing of junk food to children must be restricted 31 Mar 2008 | 02:15 pm
Louise Baur, Professor of the Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, says that parents are struggling...
The Lunch Box Challenge 31 Mar 2008 | 02:09 pm
In this event at the CI World Congress, 12 children were asked to choose the contents of their lunch box from a range of healthy and unhealthy options. The results speak for themselves. You can visi...
Working out with The Slosh Tube 31 Mar 2008 | 02:04 pm
The Slosh Tube is a bit of PVC pipe about 3 meters long, 4 inches thick, and filled with 20 litres of water. You can build one for approximately $20. It’s surprisingly difficult to control the Slosh...
What it means to be truly fit 31 Mar 2008 | 01:56 pm
If your goal is optimum physical competence then all the general physical skills must be considered: 1. Cardiovascular/respiratory Endurance – The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deli...
Seven different types of intelligence – trumps the classic IQ test 31 Mar 2008 | 01:52 pm
The originator of the theory of multiple intelligences, Howard Gardner, a professor of education at Harvard University, defines intelligence as the potential ability to process a certain sort ...
The Flip Side to the Obesity Epidemic 31 Mar 2008 | 01:36 pm
Dr Martin Donohoe MD FACP has researched the body image problem that is ubiquitous throughout western civilisation. He has uncovered some interesting statistics. From the article: As many as 66% of ...
Are you a home scientist? 31 Mar 2008 | 01:20 pm
If you are a home scientist – fascinated with how things works, and curious about fields such as Biology, Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy (not astrology!), and the Earth Science… then check o...
Not getting enough sleep? Welcome to the machine… 11 Feb 2008 | 04:07 pm
A recent report from the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research has confirmed what most people are already painfully aware of; not getting enough sleep. From the report: Almost a fifth of NSW’s ...
