How To Defend Your Gardens From Frostbite: Antifreeze For Plants D:Why is the glum face,Yeal? Y:I spend a small fortune on plants for my garden this year,but an early frost destroied half of them. D:You are not the only person who is lost plants to a...
How To Make Paper In Your Own Kitchen Paper is an indispensable part of modern life. In fact, each American uses about 600 pounds of paper every year. Where does all this paper come from? Actually，paper making technology is really quite simple, so...
lets hear from this lady, Veronica Needa. Where does Veronica live? Hello there, my names Veronica Needa, I have a Chinese name too, my Chinese name is Li Wi Kei, which is in Cantonese because I come from Hong Kong, and I make my home in London now.W...
Evolving Toward Cancer Is it possible that humans evolved to get cancer? Thats what scientists at Ben Gurion University in Israel claim in a study. They found that the same genetic mutations involved in the evolution of modern humans also gave rise t...
I have only one thing to say. U-turn if you want to. The ladys not for turning. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Britain from 1979 until 1990.Very few were indifferent about her.Often called the Iron Lady. But she is the only woman to have held t...
Im an entirely animal kind of actress you know. I do it on a kind of instinct. And of course theres so much research you can do but then youre acting with other people and its what they give you. That was Dame Judi Dench.Judi Dench has been acting fo...
Making Stem Cells From Ordinary Adult Cells Most cells in our bodies are unipotent, that is they stay the same throughout their lives. For example, once a skin cell, always a skin cellthey never start turning into brain cells. The exception is stem c...
Social Saber-Toothed Cats Whats more dangerous than meeting one saber toothed cat? Meeting a gang of them. The saber toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, existed in North and South America until 10,000 years ago. It was lion sized, but with a heavier build...
Hes famous for giving a V sign for victory.But hes most famous for leading the United Kingdom during the Second World War. If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say this was their finest hour. A clip ther...
Charles Dickens. One of the best and most read English authors. I havent read any Charles Dickens books, so I dont know. I always kind of perceived them as being quite long and boring and too much detail. Long, boring and too much detail? Shame on hi...
Superfluid = Super Weird Imagine youre enjoying a nice cool drink on a hot summer day when all of a sudden your cool liquid leaps out of the cup towards the sun, or starts climbing up the sides of the cup and spills over the edge. You might think you...
The Shape Of Lightning Bolts As a thundercloud moves through the air, a strong negative charge gathers near its base. Because opposite charges attract, this negative charge is anxious to combine with the positive charges in the ground. Eventually a l...
Do you recognise that tune? Well, its a famous piece of music called Orpheus in the Underworld. And it was written 150 years ago! And who better to tell us more about it than David Price, whos written a book about it. Its very difficult to actually i...
My name is Bond. James Bond. Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond novels. He also worked in intelligence during the Second World War. And it was because of this that he started writing spy novels. My theory was that he was going through a very acute midl...
Have you ever noticed how frozen vegetables bought at a supermarket tend to cook up like fresh ones; retaining much of their firmness, while cooked home frozen veggies tend to be softer and mushier? Well, this difference is due to the different freez...
