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Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...researched and there was 12 in a row and I think they’re now doing something with the same slot which is about nature and people and conservation. So they keep going at that, which is really important. Is there more freedom in radio than television? I’m not sure in terms of the politics whether that’s true. I think the BBC has to be careful, so whether it’s on...
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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...centre of the image from right to left, which looks like a branch. This is the valley network called Nirgal Vallis. Circular features are evident in several places on the image, which are impact craters.] Figure 14 Nirgal Vallis as seen by Mariner 9. The image (94 km across) shows a valley network, interpreted to be river channels with tributaries. The circular features...
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The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...children. A few writers thought that even particularly effeminate men could succumb to the disease. But for most the experience of sexual intercourse did the job. Or, to look at it another way, if this set of common symptoms appeared in a girl of marriageable age, the only diagnosis possible was “the disease of virgins”. [The Conversation] Transcript Helen King,...
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Swept away: Brighton's Chain Pier collapses during a storm
History & The Arts

Swept away: Brighton's Chain Pier collapses during a storm

...children and, indeed, persons of all ages, were to be seen throughout the day swarming to the foreshore and carrying away the more portable fragments of timber that the sea cast up. Scores upon scores of persons also were seeking for nails and small portions of wood to retain as mementoes of the The Chain Pier. - originally published by The Leeds Mercury, 7th December 1896...
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How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...children down to the age of seven how they spend their pocket money! We realise that this is more of a commitment than any of our other household surveys, which like the LCFS are all voluntary, which is why we continue to be indebted to all the members of the 375,000 households that have taken part. This article was originally published on the ONS website under an Open...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...for the American Society for Cybernetics. He is currently developing a transdisciplinary appreciation of the need for ocean, earth, water, self-health knowing and systems literacy. Peter resides with his wife Kristina Bishop in Northern Virginia where they juggle work, play, travel and interest in the lives of six children and their spouses and fourteen grandchildren....
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Invasion of the killer pumpkins
Money & Business

Invasion of the killer pumpkins

...children, and increasingly ourselves, dress up as the dead and the damned to consume this tacky stuff once a year, often at the hands of complete strangers against a faint but persistent aura of menace? Some thank American television for this cultural import alongside baseball hats and junior proms. Others might go further, explaining it as the eruption of some deep...
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Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...children would rather I didn’t talk about what I might want to happen. So why have things changed so much? There is no doubt the advances of medicine have improved our lives. Better sanitation, vaccinations and antibiotics have meant fewer children’s deaths and a longer life expectancy for most of us. Thankfully this has made death less common, but it has also...
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