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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...course everybody has mobile phones, they’ve got a little camcorder, just some form of technology on them to be able to produce a film, to take pictures. So as a young person I’d say, do you know, I just think it’s absolutely fantastic being able to get into this industry now with everything that’s available; I don’t think there’s really a better time for it...
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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...course, this was a deliberately bad presentation, but it gives us some clues about errors we can easily avoid. Sometimes speakers do things that irritate the audience because they’re nervous – people jangle keys in their pocket, chew their hair or constantly fiddle with a pen. Sometimes people don’t feel well-prepared so they read from a script, or they say ‘um’...
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Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...course, I think he should get the prize at some point). For some, the pathos of what seems to be an annual exercise in disappointment has become darkly comical:
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Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...course clear that Greece did not fulfil them. But then again nor did Italy or Belgium. Conversely, Spain and Ireland did meet the criteria and, indeed, by 2007 the Madrid and Dublin governments were registering deficit, debt and inflation numbers that, according to the official criteria, were better than Germany’s. And yet when the crisis hit, Spain and Ireland sunk...
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James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...free reign. I was only the researcher, but we able to pretty much decide where we going to go and what we were going to do without any interference from on high and we took some risks and it was broadcast without much scrutiny either. It wasn’t like today where we have innumerable execs and commissioners pouring over it, and the film went out with very low expectation...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...courses and qualifications [The UK government's Ending Violence against Women and Girls strategy] The 2016 strategy paper from the UK Home Office on ending violence against women and girls, introduced by the-then Home Secretary Theresa May The ‘honour’ killing of Banaz Mahmod represents the tragic consequences of the failure of state and minority communities to tackle...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...courses. [Ada Lovelace] Who was Ada Lovelace? I would have bought and sent a card if only Clintons carried them. Ada Lovelace Day has been set up to commemorate the important role of women in technology. It wouldn’t be surprising if you haven’t heard of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who must be considered the World’s first computer programmer – even...
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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...course, this was still an image, but every effort was made to support the illusion that the visitor had been transported to the very point from which the image had been captured. Barker claimed the view was “the same as if on the spot”. Sometimes this “spot” was actually physically recreated in the panorama’s rotunda, to form the viewing platform, as is the case...
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