Researchers in Spain and Germany have developed a new type of maize that produces large amounts of beta carotene and precursors of vitamin C and folic acid. The team, centred on the University of Lleida, is trying to develop this as a food crop for people in sub-saharan Africa, where it could improve the basic diet [...]
Entries from April 2009
Monster Maize?
April 30th, 2009 · No Comments · General News, Health and Welfare, Science And Nature
Tags: Africa·agriculture·biology·famine·food·gm·gmo·maize·vitamin
Adult Education Tasmania is 60
April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
The older students of remote Australian island Tasmania have been served by Adult Education Tasmania since 1949. The organisation is rightly proud of this long-service in an age when the mature learner is often forgotten.
This autumn they are providing courses in an enviable range of subjects from Arts and Crafts to Outdoors and Adventure, by [...]
Tags: 60·anniversary·Australia·sixty·Tasmania·years
Happy Easter
April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Adult Learning, Anthropology and Archaeology, Astronomy, Examples of Online Learning, NCS Courses, Researching Herbal Remedies: The Science behind the Old Wives' Tales, Science And Nature, Three Wishes
A happy Easter to all our readers!
It also looks like the weather is improving; just the right time to be taking a course with an outdoors element. May we suggest getting out in the garden for some Herbal Remedies, or maybe the Ecology of Your Garden is of interest? Maybe travel beckons and an Introduction [...]
Tags: autumn·courses·easter·spring·winter
New Philosophy Course at NCS
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · NCS, Philosophy
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s new Apollo course, the NCS is proud to announce another new course, Feminist Philosophy. Course tutor, Jenifer Booth will be leading students through the writings of women philosophers whose work reveals some key aspects of current feminist thought. Aimed at a more general learner than the philosophy specialist, Jenifer [...]
Tags: feminism·Philosophy
NCS Moon Mission
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Astronomy, History and Geneaology, NCS Courses, Science And Nature
The New Curiosity Shop has just launched a new kind of course. A mix between a science course and a history course, The Story Of Apollo will take learners back to the cold war era to examine the cultural factors and the engineering that made possible the US moon missions and the eventual landing of [...]