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‘One Thousand and One Nights’ is a classic Middle Eastern literary work of short stories and poems supposedly narrated by a young wife Scheherazade to misogynist king Shahriar who, upon discovering the infidelity of his first wife, had her executed…
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What do you think would happen if you left a child in a room with an age-appropriate new toy? CORRECT! They would just pick it up and try to work out how to play with it. Observing my own grandchildren…
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I am going to give you quick instructions on how to make real diamonds to own, love, and cherish for the rest of your life. Forget about the synthetic stuff made under laboratory conditions; I am talking about the real…
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Science tells us that the superiority of Homo Sapiens (the primate species to which we all belong), over other creatures is all down to the specific biology of the ‘opposable thumb’ in our hands, which allowed us to make tools,…
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“Oliver, you are already late for school, please come downstairs straightaway”, shouted Mrs Sparks to her 8-year-old son while standing at the bottom of the stairs. “I don’t feel well, I don’t want to go to school” mumbled Oliver from…
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Back in the Nineties, when mobile phones were the size and weight of a brick, the Internet was only accessible by nerds who called it “Information Super Highway”, and navigation was done by using paper maps, we went on a…
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