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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...attention from both the scientific community and the media. It’s called tumour paint. Jim Olson remembers being ridiculed. It was 1989 and he was defending his PhD thesis, and the bank of University of Michigan professors asked what his next goal would be. “If we can bring radioactivity into these tumours for PET scanning, I would love to find a way to bring light...
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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...attention has gone. We’re focusing on what can we say about, for example this week we’re looking at dementia. We can take down newspaper reporting of dementia, but what we really want to know is: well, what can we say that stands up about the problem of dementia, and how do we know it? KEVIN MCCONWAY: So, when you’re doing that, is part of the aim of that perhaps to...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...attention to. At the same time I started going out with a girl who was very passionate about environmental issues, so it was a kind of combination of the political and the personal, and those two together were a pretty powerful driver. Television, natural history and me In terms of television and natural history I am a strange character it seems, in that I absolutely love...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...attention. Brain-imaging studies show that when a bilingual person is speaking in one language, their ACC is continually suppressing the urge to use words and grammar from their other language. Not only that, but their mind is always making a judgement about when and how to use the target language. For example, bilinguals rarely get confused between languages, but they...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...attention. Indeed, for some later left-wing activists and some popular, folk memories, the Red Clyde has been interpreted as the revolution which never was. It needs to be stressed, however, that there are few academic commentators, even left-wing ones, who would seriously argue that Glasgow was on the verge of a revolutionary moment in 1919. In targeting ‘the legend of...
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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...attention to the house. Despite the fact that the local papers brought news of suicides every week – for some reason the numbers had rocketed – there was still an element of Catholic shame about it all. When they carted him off to hospital to pump the tablets out of his stomach, his mother didn’t go with him. That night, he was released. We’d formed a ‘suicide...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...attention to the maximum relative amount over time achieved in each case. How do the charts for Males and Females compare? Note that to get into the 25-29 age band requires passing through the 0-4 age band. That is, we might expect the values for the 25-29 age range to lag that of the 0-4 age range. For example, if the population is a closed one (the only way for new...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...attention. Of course you have to fund the thing in the first place; that’s the difficulty. Environmental filming: meeting the creative challenge We had a doc by a Canadian filmmaker, I can mostly talk about that ‘cause that’s the ones I remember, that’s the ones that resonated, a doc by a Canadian filmmaker who lives on Saltspring Island, West Coast (…we do have...
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