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I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 1
Nature & Environment

I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 1

...trees. But when he gets there, he quickly realises things are not quite so simple. Once he has established camp, and got his bearings, he discovers he has not bought the pristine virgin rainforest of his dreams, but instead 100 acres of secondary forest complete with a squatter, a cocaine field, and some dangerous neighbours. A sign recently painted on a rock on his river...
From space to laboratory in four days
Science, Maths & Technology

From space to laboratory in four days

...family tree.” Dr Richard Greenwood, who works alongside Ross supervising his PhD work, was involved in the identification and recovery of the meteorite in the village of Winchcombe. As soon as he saw the almost jet black, extremely fragile rock for the first time he knew it was very primitive, which suggested it could be a water-rich carbonaceous meteorite, like the CM...
What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...trees which have been bred specifically for increased yields that support a small farmer and his family but that requires pesticides that were developed and manufactured in another country. The harvested coffee beans will themselves be transported around the world, to be processed and placed in packages which are distributed to shops that then make the cup of coffee in a...
How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...family tree of languages that stem from PIE. They can simulate how certain words would have sounded when they were spoken 8,000 years ago. Remarkably, at the heart of the technology is the statistics of shape. “Sounds have shape,” explains Professor John Aston, from Cambridge’s Statistical Laboratory. “As a word is uttered it vibrates air, and the shape of this...
Make a bird house
Nature & Environment

Make a bird house

...tree or other perch so that the bird can alight ouside the box before entering. However, don’t provide a route for predators. Fixing Fix the box securely, but consider how you are going to get it down to clean, in October. A screw to hang the box from and a rope or wire around the box and tree trunk would be suitable, but nails are not a good idea as they tend to remain...
Selling Empire: Introduction
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Introduction

...family, with the housewife building Empire through her shopping choices. The ‘Empire Christmas Pudding’ poster shown here, from 1928, is a good example of how the EMB used diverse marketing tools, such as posters, menus, talks on BBC radio and publicity stunts, such as the cooking of a seven-foot high Empire Christmas pudding. The poster was followed in 1930 by a film...
Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics
Science, Maths & Technology

Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics

...Tree with the plastic gathered from the Ocean, Norfolk, England]Figure 1 An Alternative Christmas Tree with the plastic gathered from the Ocean, Norfolk, England (Kolforn, 2019) Christmas is a time of celebration, joy, and togetherness, but it also brings an enormous environmental toll. From single-use plastic decorations to excessive wrapping paper and unwanted gifts,...
Wanted! Starlings
Nature & Environment

Wanted! Starlings

...trees in which to build a nest and raise their young. In North America they have been found to be more aggressive than some of the native species that nest in tree holes. This means as well as reducing the availability of nest-holes to native species they can take over tree-holes in which native birds are nesting. Recent studies in North America found that starlings did...