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How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...change in leadership at the local health ministry is a much stronger pitch. Use various sources Include some information about who you are going to talk to, demonstrating a mix of independent sources and those involved in the story. Many editors like to see a minimum of two sources, at least one of them independent from the main source. Watch the detail Ensure clarity and...
Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...changes along the way. They might forget their childhood, their personality traits and their interests and attachments might change. So would we really have the same person at the end as we had at the start? A second question concerns the desirability of immortality. Is immortality something we should want? It might be suggested that immortality would make our lives more...
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...change will continue at a much slower pace than the past few decades. Maybe we will see a return to evolutionary rather than revolutionary change and the technologies we have now will still be around – much faster, more sophisticated and ubiquitous of course, but still recognisable. Or maybe some combination of economic, social and environmental apocalypse will cause...
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...change frequently during a normal trading cycle, for example bulk goods. It is a useful device for obtaining security over a company’s current assets, as it allows a company to deal freely with such assets, and provides a wider range of assets that can be charged. A floating charge does not attach to any particular asset until crystallisation occurs. Crystallisation...
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...change gradually over time. And, perhaps paradoxically, notation can also enable music to change more rapidly than it does in oral traditions. It is difficult for an avant-garde composer to make an impact without the medium of notation through which to spread his work, so it tends to be written music which generates radical departures from tradition (recordings have...
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...changing if behaviours are to change. Aspirations need a process if they are to be realised. A strong version of this approach would look towards ‘positive discrimination’ or compensatory action. Examples from education are the Sure Start programme for early years education in the UK – or Head Start in the US. You will note that these are targeted – rather than...
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...change to the way something is made or the way it works – or a new type of thing entirely) and the chances are that an innovation by development will be the order of the day. We define innovation by development as changing the bit that doesn't work, or that could work better, to improve the function of the whole product or design for reasons of cost, performance, ease...
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...change them, and might even take steps to make the codes genuinely unbreakable. So the intelligence derived from Bletchley was only ever shared with the highest army commanders in each front. The British secrecy held, and despite some close shaves, the German, Italian and Japanese militaries never suspected how much of their traffic was read. The Bletchley workers...