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Personalising Learning in the Age of Knowledge

Posted by | Published on October 14, 2017

“The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.”                           […] 

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NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: Washington #3

Posted by | Published on May 21, 2016

“The Genographic Project is an ambitious attempt to answer fundamental questions about where we originated and how we came to populate the Earth. Through your […] 

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Citizen Science and Big History

Posted by | Published on June 24, 2015

National Geographic encourages student citizen scientists to participate in their Genographic Project, which employs cutting-edge genetic and computational technologies to analyse historical patterns in DNA […] 

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*Originally published in George Orwell Studies There are few 20th century writers as collectable as George Orwell. Rare book auctions regularly fetch extraordinary prices, especially for his works published in the 1930s. […] 

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“The Struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilisation. There is a long direct line from Aristotle and Archimedes to Locke, Hume, Mill, […] 

Leon Gellert, George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four  →

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“As a child I lived in a home that was full of books … Rare works and first editions were kept under lock and key, and it took all my […] 

Orwell in Paris: Ruth Graves  →

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“Among the letters in Orwell’s possession at his death was one from Ruth Graves, whom he had known twenty years earlier, in Paris. She had, she said, read all his […] 

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