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Birth of new species witnessed by scientists

Nov 18, 2009
From wired.com: Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists. On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two. In many...

Face-to-face with a leopard seal

Nov 18, 2009
From liveleak.com: Paul Nicklen describes his most amazing experience as a National Geographic photographer — coming face-to-face with one of the arctic’s most vicious predators. Not only did he get to swim and take photos of a 12-foot leopard seal in...

The 'youngest headmaster in the world'

Oct 12, 2009
From the Beeb: The ‘youngest headmaster in the world’ . At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He’s a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family’s backyard, where he runs classes for poor...

And so the boy built a windmill

Oct 2, 2009
Now this, this is amazing. It’s a BBC article about what William Kamkwamba did when he was a teenager in Malawi. Unable to attend school, he kept up his education by using a local library. Fascinated by science, his life changed one day when he...

Boy lifts book; librarian changes boy's life

Oct 2, 2009
This is the most touching story I’ve come across in a while: Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy’s Life. Go on now, read it.


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Simon Holmes
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  A wealth of information on a broad range of subjects.I will follow with interest. Simon at TheRainbowBank
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