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A Just and Rights-Based Framework for Nature
International negotiations concerning our environment such as on climate and biodiversity, often put the scientific case behind economic and politica…
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Where do Mathematical Symbols Come From?
Where do we get our mathematical symbols from? Why is the set of integers called ℤ ? When was the equals sign first used? How about zero? Good notati…
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Space Sounds: The Music of the Cosmos
“In space, no one can hear you scream”. The chillingly accurate tagline of Ridley Scott’s 1979 space horror classic, Alien, is often belied in scienc…
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Is Incitement to Religious Hatred The New Blasphemy?
The criminalisation of religious speech before the ordinary courts in England began in 1676. Although the law on blasphemy was finally abolished in 2…
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Dickens's Public Readings: A Tale of Two Desks
This illustrated lecture marks 150 years since Dickens’s death by reflecting on the nature of his creative genius and his legacy.
It examines the the…
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England‘s Anglican Reformation
The English Reformation gave rise to the global Christian communion called Anglicanism: but neither immediately nor directly. This highly distinctive…
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Networks: The Internet and Beyond
Networks were seen as a rather arcane and dull area in computer science. Then along came the internet, and everything changed for ever. The internet …
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Lymphoma, Leukaemia and Myeloma
Lymphoma, leukaemia and myeloma arise from different parts of the white blood cell system. Unlike the solid tumours they can be widely distributed in…
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BBC Radio in the Digital Era (1982–)
On 17 August 1982, the first commercial CD was released. Digital recording and editing have changed the face of music by making recordings easy to or…
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Dickens: The Last Decade
In the last ten years of his life Charles Dickens related to his adoring public in a number of different ways; as novelist, as journalist, as public …
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