Author: Paul Pillai

The October 2017 National Geographic article on the issues facing the Nenets as they make their annual migration to the Yamal Peninsula. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/10/nenets-yamal-herders-energy-development/ Some background… more

Reminder of how to make a pie chart: https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/pie-charts.html Note – if you are comparing two wholes (e.g. how two different families spend their income), then you might… more

Historical leading causes of child mortality in the Africa region: Acute lower respiratory infections Birth asphyxia or trauma Diarrhoea HIV-AIDS Malaria Measles Meningitis Other Pertussis… more

Some resources: Arguments for and against Catalonia independence http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/27/europe/catalan-referendum-explained/index.html https://www.ft.com/content/138164a6-5b8a-11e7-b553-e2df1b0c3220 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/catalonia-independence-referendum-170927083751915.html

An animation on the relative size of familiar and unfamiliar forms of life: https://www.cellsalive.com/howbig_js.htm What stops cells from just growing and growing? http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/ahp/LAD/C5/C5_ProbSize.html This is… more

A really well explained overview of the basic function of the heart. A slightly dated but excellent video animation and description by a doctor of… more

1 If 4 times a number is 48, what is 1/3 of the number? 2 Luca and Isaiah took paper clips from the Draper cabinet. … more

What does it mean to say that something is caused by genetics, that it has a genetic basis?  The websites below help answer these questions… more