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We haven't learned anything

Mike Pilewski: "On one TV channel, mobs are destroying cities in England. On another channel, mobs are destroying San Francisco. The first is presented as news, and I'm supposed to be shocked by it. The second is presented as entertainment, and I'm supposed to enjoy it."

The world's most dangerous animal

As a child, Mike Pilewski got a look at the world's most dangerous animal.

Spotlight Audio 2/2010

Around Oz
13. The climate debate heats up down under (p. 40)

Vocabulary
18. In a hotel room (see pp. 46–47)

Spotlight 2/2010

LANGUAGE

To become fluent in English, it helps to learn about the cultures that speak it. Vanessa Clark teaches you expressions like "Here's looking at you, kid".

Read all about it! The February Spotlight

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "Find out what's coming in the February Spotlight."

Chimpanzees and the YouTube effect

Experiments have shown that chimpanzees may be able to learn tasks from videos, in a surprisingly similar way to humans. One team plans to carry out the same test in young children to find out how much they rely on social learning.

We're all going to die (or maybe not)

Growing up in a culture obsessed with disaster, we thought about what to do in emergencies.

Clever chimps

We are used to thinking of other primates such as apes, gorillas and chimpanzees as being interesting and fun to watch. Well, new research has proved that chimpanzees can carry out certain tasks as fast as we can, and sometimes even faster.

Spotlight Audio 2/2008

The Biz Quiz
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Travel
L.A. revisited

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