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The Z Files: Jon Chase
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Jon Chase

...world of science this is the establishment, the Royal Institution is the home of the UK’s science community, but the person I’m meeting is anything but traditional. 28 year-old Jon Chase is on a mission to spread the scientific word in his own unique style. Jon Chase I think it’s important for people to know about science. Science has made us understand so much...
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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...world at the time it was built, but also powerful and useful. It wasn’t beautiful and useless; it was useful I guess. And it was from Newcastle, you know, and that really did inspire me. Benjamin Zephaniah When I was a little boy going down the park with a little girl, I would have been like freaked out if she looked at a ship and went wow isn’t that beautiful, a...
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Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...world... ...The story of every Summer and Winter Olympics can be partially told through the challenges the organisers confront in the run-up to the Games. The Milano-Cortina games are no exception. There have been fears that a new cable car, which will transport spectators to the site of the Women’s Alpine skiing events in Cortina, will not be finished in time for the...
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The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...world record. It’s not just big mammals The series also explores the tactics of some smaller, less familiar predators. Jumping spiders of the genus Portia feed on other spiders and display remarkably complex and flexible hunting behaviour for an animal with a brain made up of just a few neurons. [Close-up, enhanced photograph of a Portia Spider looking directly at the...
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Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...world positively affects people’s wellbeing. This is influenced by the quality of the time they spend in nature, and their nature connectedness (the sense of their relationship with nature). While there are many ways to engage, one is learning. One way to learn is to engage with citizen science projects (e.g. SciStarter), where members of the public involve in...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...world is and how little things can make big differences. To understand how figs and fig wasps interact, it’s important to realise that a fig isn’t a fruit in the way that apples, cherries or plums are. Instead it starts out as a complicated and unique flower head. Think of a dandelion flower. Each of those lovely yellow petals is in fact a tiny individual flower with...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...world. Those we see at the cenotaph each year and on Second World War anniversaries, that we venerate for their courage, wisdom and quiet dignity, sprung from the same places that now, we are led to believe, can only produce those lacking in any of these qualities. Travel to large parts of Britain today and you will see the hollowed-out husk of communities whose...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...World in the past 50 years. From drug cheats to how we watch sport - it's all covered...Back in 1966, three years prior to the charter date of The Open University (23 April 1969), the spaghetti Western - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released. The film grossed over $25million at the box office in North America alone. The relevance of this, well it’s all in the...
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