France’s Hollande Promises Pupils ‘No More Homework’
France 24 | 11 October 2012
French President François Hollande pledged to ditch homework on Tuesday as part of wide-ranging reforms aimed at improving standards for over-worked French pupils, especially those in disadvantaged areas.
Some Things Should Happen on Soft Pages, Not Cold Metal
Letters of Note | 15 October 2012
In May of 2006, 46 years after the publication of her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, reclusive author Harper Lee wrote the following letter to Oprah Winfrey
Machine Dated At 400 Million Years Found In Russia
Before It’s News | 9 March 2012
In the remote Kamchatka peninsula (map below), 200 km from Tigil, University of St. Petersburg archaeologists discovered a strange fossil.
