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...troubles and difficulties that children encounter; no real changes in childhood abductions, or sexual abuse, or accidental deaths, or mental health problems or suicide. What there has been I think is a kind of new visibility to some of these very long standing and persistent childhood problems, so the internet makes visible sexual harassment at school or bullying in a way...

...troubled generations of historians. Why did Harry Patch, and millions like him, have to kill men they never knew? [Described image] Figure 1 Harry Patch (1898–2009) was Britain’s oldest surviving Tommy In 1919, when the victorious Allies met at Versailles, they believed that Germany and its allies had started the war. But the losers also thought that their enemies had...

...trouble! Bird’s egg living Like the plant seed, it can be hard to tell if the egg is dead or alive. If it’s been bought from the supermarket, it has probably never been alive because it will not have been fertilised. The embryo in an egg that has been fertilised will die if not kept warm though. Like seeds, fertilised eggs start off as living. Milk non-living This is...