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Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...public sector cuts. Those were the real issues that people were debating and those were the issues that the Yes campaign were putting forward as things that an independent Scotland could address, and we would have in Scotland the potential to address that. So those what I would call social justice issues are of course entangled with issues of nationalism and national...
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...public interest book. I've written it so that it is accessible and readable and it is in the practical world as well. Because I do try and say something about: okay, these are places of interest, but what do they tell us? What do they mean? Why are they important and fundamentally what should we do about them? Petr Jehlička: Indeed, and that’s what we are discussing...
Gwella profiadau tystion sy’n gleifion, teuluoedd a chydweithwyr o’r broses Addasrwydd i Ymarfer
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gwella profiadau tystion sy’n gleifion, teuluoedd a chydweithwyr o’r broses Addasrwydd i Ymarfer

...public and patient complainants who have been through the GMC’s Fitness to Practise procedures’. Llundain...Sesiwn 1: Mynegi pryder: Cydnabyddiaethau - Cafodd y gwaith o ysgrifennu cynnwys ar gyfer y cwrs hwn ei arwain gan Gemma Ryan-Blackwell gyda chymorth y tîm ymchwil Tystion i Niwed. Ysgrifennwyd sesiynau 1 a 5 yn bennaf gan Dr Sharif Haider. Ysgrifennwyd y...
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...health, property or environment. A biohazard is a biological substance that could pose a threat to human health or the environment. Hazards are components of risk, along with the probability of an event coming to pass. Risk also depends on the nature of the consequences arising from the event. The simplest form of risk assessment is to rate the risk as high, medium or...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...public library advocates, for instance—claiming that ‘good’ literature was necessarily beneficial and encouraging the growth and spread of the ‘reading habit’ across all social classes. Female commentators also pushed back against hostile representations of their reading lives, claiming that fiction provided women with a temporary mental escape route from...
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...health and put together all the sequences that make the rover measure and image the targets that we scientists pick out as interesting and of scientific importance. I am a mineralogist by training, and thus I am part of the science team, more specifically, the science team that looks at the geology and mineralogy investigations that the rover carries out. Our science team...
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...public were the machines apparently capable of playing board games, usually chess, against human opponents. The most famous of these, The Chess Automaton, better known as The Turk (Figure 3), was built by Baron Wolfgang Von Kempelen and toured Europe in the 1770s. The Turk was a wheeled wooden cabinet, with a chessboard and a life-sized wooden figure dressed in Turkish...
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...public eye. But basically, I mean it’s a very good idea. It was about what public reaction would be to such a heinous crime. And it was, it was a play about social media really. And we to-and-fro’d a lot, not about the writing of it, but actually what it was going to be about. I mean the most terrible thing happened. Jo Cox, I mean we’d already commissioned it by...