Teaching children about gardening: how and why?
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For Young Parents and Educators
Health
Can’t fall asleep? Here’re some bedroom tips!
Tips for you and your child to achieve a good night’s snooze!
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Health
Three Foes at Your Fingertips
Some common pathogens that can be found on our fingertips (literally!)
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Art
Colour me with Science
Dyes and pigments have been used by humanity over the years in artworks and in colouring fabrics. Without these coloured substances, life would certainly be much duller.
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Nature
Once Upon a Pitcher Plant
The first time it happened, Hems was greatly displeased. In fact, ‘greatly displeased’ might be an understatement of the reaction one would usually have to being pooped on. However, Hems was, in fact, a plant, and thus there was not much he could do about the uninvited guest’s droppings. The perpetrator, a funny looking furball, […]
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Nature
Plant Health: A High-rise Container Gardener’s Journey
My journey as a high-rise container gardener started about eight years ago. It was a thoroughly unremarkable beginning: after buying two adorable potted ivy and arrowhead plants from the nursery to ‘beautify’ our apartment, we (the wife and I) discovered to our horror that watering our new ‘acquisitions’ would cause water and soil material to […]
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Nature
Hijackers in Nature
With the fear of COVID-19 haunting the public, many of us have become warier of people coughing and sneezing around us. This sparked some random thoughts in my mind. I understand that our bodies produce mucus to deal with the viral infection. Coughing and sneezing out the mucus are ways for our bodies to get […]
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