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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...free password manager available for computers running Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS and Linux as well as for Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android devices. This only takes a few minutes to get started with a password manager and it is time well spent on improving your security. Start by opening your web browser. Here I am using Google’s Chrome browser, but all modern...
Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...freeing themselves was escaping to non-slave territories in the North. This was a journey full of danger, and slave-owners often employed thugs to chase after and re-capture their "property". Many of those on the run were caught, and some died in the attempt. Those who got to the northern states could still be returned under the Fugitive Slave Act. The ultimate safe-haven...
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...free range meat rather than factory farm meat? Peter: It’s an argument that says, a clear cut case is factory farming, and if you want to have something that you can say pretty much definitely is not justified because it exploits animals wrongly, then factory farming is the clearest case. That’s not to say that if you get into other forms of farming you may not still...
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...course, he very kindly narrated it. He couldn’t present it, because the diving would have been too difficult for him and he narrated it and everybody thought it was a David Attenborough series anyway, but I was very proud of how we achieved that series. I think it’s probably the best of the three actually. Mixing blue-chip with environmental issues? Well, I had a...
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...course, disciplines, because I’m very cross-disciplinary in my thinking about optimal collaboration, whether we could create a network that would drive digital technology solutions for nature conservation to really have an impact. Should natural history programmes feature environmental change? I think it’s definitely part of natural history programme makers’ remit....
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...course, I also bring my expertise in mineralogy and geology to the decision-making that we will do today. Conversations happen within the virtual conference room, a separate chat and occasionally on email, too. There is a lot to keep track of, so I’d better be focused! I start with a roll call, which means calling each role within the team to see who is online working...
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...course, has its own traditions to do with Autumn, which have had an impact on Western culture; many people in North America now take trips to see Autumn foliage, as the Japanese have done for centuries. Images Limbourg brothers and Jean Colombe, September from the Les très riches heures du duc de Berry, c. 1416-18 and c. 1485. Musée Condé, Chantilly,
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...free of Manchester, began to climb the green, thickly wooded hills, and dip into the grassy and leafy valleys. In the very heart of the loveliness we found Sheffield most nobly posed against a lurid sunset, and clouding the sky, which can never be certain of being blue, with the smoke of a thousand towering chimneys. From whatever point you have it, the sight is most...