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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...free to use. And there’s a lot of talk about this and there are various initiatives. It’s a difficult one for the BBC, because embodied in our whole existence and our charter is not to campaign and we have to be careful… Well, it’s a question, when I say we have to be careful, it’s a question to ask, saying if we put lots of rushes and ins and outs and things...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...course? Can you hate forever and keep on punishing? - Author's translation from Andromaque, I. 4 (311-12) Like the tormentor king, he begs for her love and promises her everything: Tell me merely that I can hope and I will give you back your son and be a father to him, […] Fuelled by a kind look from you, I can take everything on. - Author's translation from Andromaque,...
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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...course, there are still plenty of people making calls, putting up (and sometimes tearing down) yard signs, trying to mobilise the vote for their preferred national and local candidates. There may even by a few people who actually still pay attention to the endless stream of relentlessly derogatory ads coming from both camps. This jaw-droppingly sad exercise in...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...course. The American Petroleum Institute and other industry organizations have lobbied hard to rescind or modify the new offshore drilling regulations, calling them impractical and burdensome. In April 2017, Trump’s Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, appointed Louisiana politician Scott Angelle to lead BSEE. Unlike his predecessors – two retired Coast Guard admirals –...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where...
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6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...course, if you win, that means you will have a direct say in what happens in your local area or, indeed, right across Wales. [6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales headers] You could run for election locally – for example, in community or county council elections – or nationally – for example, in Senedd elections. The next scheduled local elections will be in...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many others. One of...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...course, but British history goes back a bit further than 1979 and the Tory damage to manufacturing and the social fabric of this country he so well describes. The weary victor of the Second World War, admiring ally of the United States in the Cold War and its "terror" successor, and home to the City of London seeking new ways to assert its influence after the formal...
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