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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...worked in every part of television since John Logie Baird invented it. I starting as a reporter on the local news in Bristol and ending as Editor of Nature, the environmental strand based in the BBC’s Natural History Unit. We were trying to tell environmental stories and warn of climate change long before the E word became fashionable. I’m not sure we changed anything...
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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...work through this page. Research questions are central to your study. While we are used to asking and answering questions on a daily basis, the research question is quite specific. As well as identifying an issue about which your enthusiasm will last for anything from 3 – 8 years, you also need a question that offers the right scope, is clear and allows for a meaningful...
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...working classes that has been evolving over the last 75 years. In addition, the stereotyping of class away from a purely economic definition has masked the obvious social divisions which are opening up. Owen Jones, the author of Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, and the Open University's senior lecturer in Gerry Mooney, join Geoff Andrews in discussion below....
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Ready or not, we're having an election
Society, Politics & Law

Ready or not, we're having an election

...succeeded Tony Blair as Labour prime minister, two years after the previous election. Three months into his premiership, Brown toyed with the idea of going to the country, encouraged by favourable polls. Speculation was allowed to build up over a fortnight to the point where an early election was expected. However, a shift in the polls during the Conservatives’ annual...
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...succeeded in bringing the vast majority of the Socialists on board. Rather than launching a strike they voted in favour of war credits in the Reichstag and abandoned their anti-war principles. By making everyone believe that Germany was the victim, the government had achieved unprecedented unity among the people, an indispensable prerequisite for fighting a war. In...
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Two kings, two very different coronations
History & The Arts

Two kings, two very different coronations

...succeeding a respected, popular, and long-reigning sovereign, in addition to the challenge of how to transition from heir presumptive to sovereign in the eyes of the public. As with George IV, Charles III spent many decades as heir presumptive, a position which placed both individuals at the centre of public fascination with the monarchy. The constant press attention on...
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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...works. Dallas Campbell: Shall we turn it on? Frank Drake: Is it plugged in? Dallas Campbell: I don’t think it is plugged in. Frank Drake: This is the original thing and it was before computers. It’s, this whole thing, in fact at the time of Project Ozma there were no computers. It was all done by eye and ink on paper tapes. Dallas Campbell: So this is the original...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...working in Texas, succeeded in cloning a sheep using a nucleus from a cell of an early embryo. This exciting result was soon replicated by others in a host of other organisms, but it only seemed to work when early embryo cells were used. Researchers began to think that animal embryo cells became irreversibly "committed" after the first few cell divisions and that nuclei...
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