Resources
Alcohol and the adolescent brain
Adults drink more frequently than adolescents, but when adolescents drink they tend to drink larger quantities. There is evidence to suggest that the adolescent brain responds to alcohol differently from the adult brain. Scientists at the University of Oxford are...
Alcohol: the Spirit of Friendship
This resource, from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looks at worrying studies into young people's drinking habits. Studies have looked at how and why excessive drinking has become a normal part of life for many young people and the psychological pressures put upon people to drink alcohol,...
Alderman Knight School
This teachers TV programme features Alderman Knight School in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. The school has embraced the National Healthy Schools Programme with a passion and students are encouraged to think about food, how to grow it, cook it and buy it.
The school has introduced many schemes to create a...
Alessi is one of the 20th century''s most enduring and influential designers and manufacturers. The list of personnel he has commissioned reads like an A-Z of contemporary design.
Originally presented as a mascot for the Alessi/Philips marketing operation, the Anna G corkscrew soon proved to be one of Alessi's most popular...
The Diva Watering can, designed by Eero Aarnio, has a comma-like shape thrusting upwards towards the top of the spout, almost an expression of...
Part of a collection of design classics, this kitchen timer miniature was designed by Michael Graves for Allessi.
Numbers are everywhere, in books and newspapers, in buildings and technology and in our daily routines. The author discusses...
In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to...