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In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...public pleasure-grounds. They lie rather outside of it, but within it are many and many religious and civic edifices which merit to be seen. We chose as chiefest the ancient Parish Church, of Norman origin and modern restoration, where we visited the tomb of the Lord and Lady Shrewsbury who were Mary Stuart's jailers; or if they were not, a pair of their family were, and...
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...public use? I think the idea of opening up an archive or a treasury, like everything the BBC and all the other great producers globally have created over the last 20, 30, 40 years, is an astonishing idea. It sounds like this great treasure chest. But it’s like any great resource, how do you open it up, how do people get access to it, how do they understand what they...
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...
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...