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Health Matters – How to Get Rid of Head Lice

Around one in three children in the UK is likely to get head lice at some point during a year. That’s a lot of itchy scalps! But what exactly are head lice and how can you get rid of them?

Science, Nature and Tech

Jump! Into SCIENCE – Dry Ice Bubble Experiment

Do you like blowing bubbles? Well, how would you feel if you could blow foggy bubbles that bounce? Pretty awesome, huh? Check out this fun dry ice bubble experiment.

Sports

Stories from The Stables – #6 Falling Gracefully

Continuing the ever popular series Stories from The Stables, Carolyn Ward tells of falling (un)gracefully

Popular, Science, Nature and Tech

6 Sounds That Your Parents Will Recognise but You Won’t

I recently discovered an old phone in an antique shop and realised that today’s kids wouldn’t recognise the sound of the dial turning.

It got me thinking about the other sounds that have disappeared with the advent of new technology. Have a listen to these sounds and try to work out what they are.

Language & Literature

Is Black Really White?

Science will tell you that black is not a colour, rather it is the absence of colour or the fact that there is no colour there. I expect that makes you think of white, rather than black!

And that’s the interesting thing about the word black: it was nearly white. And in fact in several other languages, the same root did develop to mean white.