There is everything from hard science to education to psychology and much more there, a veritable cornucopia of articles! Oh, what's a cornucopia? According to the OED, it is:
"Pronunciation:
/ˌkɔːnjuːˈkəʊpɪə/
Forms:
Also cornucopiæ.
Etymology:
A late Latin form, written as one word, of the earlier cornū cōpiae
‘horn of plenty’; fabled to be the horn of the goat Amalthea by which
the infant Zeus was suckled; the symbol of fruitfulness and plenty.
a. The horn of plenty; a goat's horn represented in art as overflowing with flowers, fruit, and corn.
1592 R. Greene Maiden's Dreame in Poems 133
[Hospitality] With her cornucopia in her fist.
1611 Bible
(A.V.)
Transl. Pref. 3
Men talke of Cornu-copia, that it had all things necessary for foode in it.
c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling
(1656)
iv. 32
When Plenty (Summers daughter) empties daily Her cornucopia, fill'd with choisest viands..."
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