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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

...open part there was an oval freshwater pond (12' X 8' X 20" deep) fed by tapwater. Artificial cliffs were constructed of blocks, covered in soft-board and polythene sheeting to reduce leg and wing abrasion. Diet Initially the birds were fed sliced coley fish but after two weeks they were given thawed deep-frozen sprats, in a 3.5% weight to volume solution of sea-salt....
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Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cwestiynau Cyffredin am Gyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...Open’ I ddileu ffeil, dewiswch hi a dewiswch ‘Delete’. Pam nad yw'r gyfrifiannell yn gofyn am ddata go iawn? Bydd rhai cyfrifianellau'n gofyn i ddefnyddwyr am ‘ddata go iawn’, fel faint o nwy a thrydan y maent yn ei ddefnyddio bob blwyddyn, faint o filltiroedd y maent yn ei deithio mewn car, pa mor bell y maent yn hedfan ac ati. Fodd bynnag, mae llawer o...
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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...courses, or burnished the golden corn-ricks clustered near the long roofs of some midland homestead, he saw the full-uddered cows driven from their pasture to the early milking. Perhaps it was the shepherd, head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless, unofficial air, as of a beadle in undress. The shepherd, with a slow and slouching...
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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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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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How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...course, is more or less the approach we take to public health and healthy eating these days. We tend to favour exhortation – reduce fat! exercise more! – over outright intervention of the sort that has seen Mexico impose a 10% tax on sugary drinks, or indeed Bloomberg’s soda ban. Our hope is that public education campaigns will help people choose to eat more...
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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...course you can have our archive, because we know what you’re going to do with it, because if you do something that we don’t like what you’ve done with it, then we can go back and say, “actually we know where this came from, because we had it imprinted, we had it water-marked, we had a little, kind of, fingerprint on it.”’ Or what you do do is, you make it...
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