Despite their fearsome reputation, killer whales act and behave like any other animal does in order to survive: eating fish. Why humans decide that some animals are more terrible than others just because they eat other animals is quite a mystery but we... (read more)

The idea that man is a wolf to man is quite rooted in the western world and used to define and understand the hatred and destructive tendencies of human beings on other human beings. The sentence holds some true, it would be naif to deny this. But we... (read more)

30 years ago, on a day like today (25th April, 2012), the portuguese people rose against the government to end the 40 year-old military dictatorship of Salazar, which continued after his death in his successor, Marcelo Caetano. This fascist dicatorship... (read more)

The art of puppetry in England is an ancient art that probably dates back to the times of the Romans. There are four main types of puppets in the world: -marionettes, which function with strings -hand puppets, which function like a glove -rod puppets,... (read more)

Norwich Puppet Theater was established 30 years ago, in 1979, by puppet artists Ray and Joan da Silva. The venue is a small, cozy medieval church... (read more)

The use of the preterite tense in Spanish does not differ too much from the use of the past simple tense in English. As usual, Spanish has 3 infinitive endings in -ar, -er and -ir from which different forms of the preterie derive. Verbs ending in -ar... (read more)

April 21st 2012 will be a day to remember in the history of Real Madrid for its victory against Barcelona in Camp Nou after a long, long time of successive defeats. Particularly, the last time that Real Madrid defeated Barcelona in Camp Nou was in the... (read more)

The Popocatepetl vulcan (which in nahuatl language means "smoking mountain") has been spewing ash and molten rock for a week in Mexico city, situated... (read more)

La Barceloneta is a charming working class neighbourhood situated in Barcelona's port. Its narrow streets covered with hanging clothes drying in... (read more)

A day like today, 25 years ago, Paul Simon released an album that rocked the world: Graceland. The reason why it rocked the world and created so much controversy is that it not only fused western and african styles but that Paul Simon performed... (read more)

Chelsea defeated Barcelona 1-0 in yesterda's first leg of the Champion League semifinal. Although FC Barcelona ruled the game from head to toe (82% of ball possession), Chelsea managed to score in one of the few occassions they had. On the match played... (read more)

The Discovery space shuttle has been finally put to rest after more than 28 years, 365 days and 148 million miles of service in space. the reason why the discovery retires is thus its age. The space shuttle has become too old to cope with the burning... (read more)

Former British Home and Foreign secretary Jack Straw is facing legal action as he was Foreign Minister in 2004 when Libyan commander and former... (read more)

Complex systems is a concept that belongs to the field of complexity theory, which is founded on the assumption that reality cannot be understood properly only terms of cause and effect, in the manner of the classical analytical method. Complex systems... (read more)

It has been reported that the population of bees has dramatically dropped to 50% in the last 25 years. this is very worrying as bees are crucial for the pollination of plants and flowers that give us much of our vegetable produce. (read more)

Norah Jones' father is the famous sitar player Ravi Shankar who was very famous in the... (read more)

Norah Jones is famous singer well known for her soft and beautiful voice and for her hit single 'Come Away With Me', which sold 11 million copies... (read more)

Actually yes. North American artist born in Chicago Brian Dettmer has specialised in carving encyclopedias, medical journals or dictionaries with... (read more)

Morosini's tragic death yesterday is yet another terrible blow to football fans. In the last few years Sevilla's Antonio Puerta, Espanol Dani Jarque... (read more)

25 year old calcio player Piermario Morosini sadly died on 14th April 2012 of a heart attack while he was playing in a match against Pescara. It... (read more)