Life's Little Mysteries is a great collection of over 250 interesting questions briefly explained. Read as many as you can, choose your favourite twenty, and write a short comment on them (the title and 3-4 lines might be enough).
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 Read and Review    Live Science Top News is a great collection of over 50 articles on a fair variety of scientific topics. Read as many as you can, choose your favourite ten, and write a brief summary on them (the title and 10-15 lines might be enough). BBC News, Discovery Channel and Science Daily provide a daily wealth of scientific news. Read as many as you can, choose your favourite twelve, and write a short comment on them (the title and 6-9 lines might be enough). You can stay up to date by subscribing to the RSS feeds using Google Reader or your favourite RSS reader. |
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Last update: 23 February 2012
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