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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...course, but still recognisable. Or maybe some combination of economic, social and environmental apocalypse will cause the collapse of existing infrastructure and telecommunications will be back to pencil and paper or something even more primitive. As many people have pointed out, it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future. Hamza Bendemra Research...
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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...courses and qualifications. _ This is an invitation to: watch a series of six videos from countries across the Global South as part of the International virtual field trip reflect on your learning undertake some independent study. Introduction This series of videos offers a chance to embark on an ‘International virtual field trip’. In addition to observing and...
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Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...free-masonries of ANY trade by careful reading and studying. But when I got him to read again the passage from Shakespeare with the interlardings, he perceived, himself, that books couldn't teach a student a bewildering multitude of pilot-phrases so thoroughly and perfectly that he could talk them off in book and play or conversation and make no mistake that a pilot would...
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David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...free and forcing it all out there as a… sounds like a great idea, like NASA does or whatever it might be. I think the people that use it will be the broadcasters or the programme makers that will know how to delve deep into it, regurgitate it back out in story form. They’ll have to spend a lot of money doing that in terms of research and access and reduplication, so...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...course. It was challenging to find housing, jobs and even being able to buy food as some local shop owners refused to serve Black people. Due to these challenges, it was also a revolution in small business and home ownership for some Black people, in particular in the Moss Side area of Manchester. Life for me during this period was very isolating because I was a young...
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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...free. Mchomvu started working with the rats in 2002. He has 24 trainers under his supervision. It’s satisfying work, he says. “To train the rats to detect landmines means we save the lives of people. To work at serving other people – I like it.” He immediately said: ‘This is a stupid idea, let’s do it!’” In another small, hot room at the Apopo TB centre,...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...courses all kicked up for two or three years after Blue Planet, because of the impact that that series made on the public. Should the environmental programme accompanying Blue Planet have been shown on a different channel? Blue Planet came out as eight blue chip, straight natural history programmes and there was a ninth programme which was called Making Waves, which was...
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The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...free of oil stain in about two months but were still not fully waterproof. For a feather to be waterproof its components must have a regular structure (Elder 1954) of certain dimensions (Rijke 1968) and a water-repellent surface. It is possible that, as in some plants, a microrough surface is needed for strong water repellency (Amsden and Lewins 1966). Oiling, handling...
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