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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...account, thus enabling us to make state-wide predictions as well. Some models that have included the role of interventions (like lockdown, quarantine, testing, isolation) explicitly in their modelling have come up with various scenarios under these interventions and their likely impact on the number of infections. However, for all these models, we have to understand that...
Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare

...account of it”. Wednesday 17th July 1839 After dinner, when Lord Melbourne came up to me, I talked of the heat and being tired; of what I should say to Mr.Macaulay; “Oh! ask him about India and Auckland.” Talked of the Play of Henry V.; “It's a spirited play,” said Lord M. Too much of the Welshman, I said; “But that's thought very clever,” he replied. The...
Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...accounts have emphasised the immediate impact, in terms of suffering and deaths, and the human tragedy that this represented. But there were also profound long-term consequences, which were global in scope. To assess these consequences, we need to look at the three corners of the Atlantic’s “triangular trade”. First, what effects did the trade (and the loss of so...
How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...accounted for in just three categories – housing, travel and food. Reducing energy consumption required for housing (eg, heating, electricity and cooling), along with cutting travel in diesel or petrol cars, and eating less meat-based foods, will have a big impact on our individual footprints. But where does the digital carbon footprint fit in with this? When it comes...
Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...account of her life in 1869. After this, other stalwarts of the Railroad era told of her remarkable exploits, and gradually she came to be cherished as an icon of the battle against slavery. Over thirty years after the Civil War, she was awarded a military pension, and when she died in 1913 she was buried with full military honours. Reverence for Tubman has grown ever...
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...accounts properly for the environment. The big, missing thing is that even in the current political conversations in the UK, we’re leading to an election, the environment is not featuring high on the agenda, and accounting for the environment certainly isn’t. So I think we all have a duty to collaborate, to try and overcome that pessimism and sense that we can’t...
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...accountable for what it’s done. It’s answerable. Nigel: We’ve got the idea then that a group of people can together be morally responsible. In the area of business how does this connect with the idea of the social responsibility of organisations? Alex: So you’re talking about corporate social responsibility, CSR as it’s known. The big buzz word. They talk all...
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...accounts for both its stability and the way it can be replicated – the first two of these three key properties. Click below to view the video. It was in 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick (Figure 1) working in the UK, deduced and published the three-dimensional structure of DNA. It was the year that might be described as the dawn of molecular biology, for their...
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