NCS News

We are delighted to announce the arrival of Drivel Defence from the Plain English Campaign. This is a software tool that can be used online to check your text for difficult English before including it in your web site. We’re looking forward to using it in the NCS College’s resources. It should be helpful to [...]

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Warnings were buzzing around the Internet yesterday that Asteriod 2008 TC3 was on a collision course with the Earth. The 3m asteriod was predicted to hit in Northern Sudan around 3.46am (BST) this morning. 
Meteorologist Jacob Kuiper issued a warning to Air France KLM that some of its aircraft may be in the vicinity when the [...]

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Alas alack we don’t have any music related courses here at the NCS College, so I take great pleasure in directing you to Soundjunction. This is an action packed site for listening to, exploring, discovering and creating music. You can find out how to ply the udu - you can also discover how to play the saxaphone, [...]

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George Orwell’s diaries are to be re-produced as a blog to mark their 70th anniversary. From the 9th August you will be able to follow, in displaced real time, his thoughts on Europe descending into War, plus more mundane activities such as  how many eggs his chickens laid.
 
Visit: George Orwell’s diaries.

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On Friday, August 1st, the Moon will pass directly in front of the Sun producing a total solar eclipse.

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Can’t be bothered lifting that twenty kilo bestseller while basking in the sunshine? Why not listen to a good book instead? We’ve found a site which offers educational listening, too. This appeals to our lazier sides and makes us feel that the time lying in the sun is well spent, actually learning something. Check out [...]

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The fundamental science of quantum mechanics casts doubt on whether the world is real or just the way we see it. Scientists at the Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (IQOQI) in Vienna have been trying to test whether this prediction of the theory is actually true, or just a consequence of the quantum model. Their [...]

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The email newsletter of the New Curiosity Shop has transformed with issue 20, out now. It has now become a proper quarterly magazine. It is available as an online electronic magazine at http://issuu.com/cloisters/docs/cloisters20. You can read it there now.

 Post your comments on the new magazine here, and let us know if you have any ideas [...]

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“An egg is always an adventure.”
If I’m stumped for a word, a meaning,  am looking for a quote, or I just want some good advice on writing, one of the first places I visit on the web is AskOxford. Not only can you find definitions but there is a source of quotes, a thesaurus if [...]

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