Cambridge IELTS 10

Gifted children and learning

Internationally, ‘giftedness’ is most frequently determined by a score on a general intelligence test, known as an IQ test, which is above a chosen cutoff point, usually at around the top 2-5%. Children’s educational environment contributes to the IQ score and the way intelligence is used...

Sep 29,2017
Stepwells

A millennium ago, stepwells were fundamental to life in the driest parts of India. Richard Cox travelled to north-western India to document thesespectacular monuments from a bygone era. ..

Sep 29,2017
European Transport Systems 1990-2010

What have been the trends and what are the prospects for European transport systems? It is difficult to conceive of vigorous economic growth without an efficient transport system...

Sep 29,2017
Why are so few companies truly innovative?

The psychology of innovation. Innovation is key to business survival, and companies put substantial resources into inspiring employees to develop new ideas...

Sep 29,2017
Tea and the industrial revolution

A Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking babits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution...

Sep 29,2017
When evolution runs backwards

Evolution isn’t supposed to run backwards - yet an increasing number of examples show that it does and that it can sometimes represent the future of a species. The description of any animal as an ‘evolutionary throwback’ is controversial...

Sep 29,2017
The megafires of california

Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires in the western United States. Wildfires are becoming an increasing menace in the western United States, with Southern California being the hardest hit area...

Sep 29,2017
The Context, Meaning and Scope of Tourism

Travel has existed since the beginning of time, when primitive man set out, often traversing great distances in search of game, which provided the food and clothing necessary for his survival...

Sep 29,2017
Autumn leaves

Canadian writer Jay Ingram investigates the mystery of why leaves turn red in the fall A One of the most captivating natural events of the year in many areas throughout North America is the turning of the leaves in the fall. The colours are magnificent, but the question of exactly why some trees tur..

Sep 29,2017
Museums of fine art and their public

The fact that people go to the Louvre museum in Paris to see the original painting Mona Lisa when they can see a reproduction anywhere leads us to question some assumptions about the role of museums of fine art in today’s world...

Sep 29,2017