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...English word 'history' comes from). Explore how Herodotus puts together his enquiry and learn how he makes the problem of finding out what happened to ours too...With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a...

...English composer, conductor, and author Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) was a close contemporary of Chaminade. She wrote and published a wide range of works: six operas, a Mass, chamber music and songs. Smyth’s opera Der Wald (1901) made history in 1903 as the first by a woman to be staged at the New York Metropolitan Opera. But Smyth wasn’t only a composer. She was also a...

...English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, established the charity which focuses on the potential of cellular repair to extend lifespans indefinitely. De Grey has claimed provocatively that the first human to live to the age of 1,000 years has probably already been born. Meanwhile, Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov founded the ‘2045 Initiative’ in 2011, with the goal of...