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Mata Hari: Femme Fatales
Mata Hari was an erotic dancer who, in 1917, was executed by the French army for treason. She has been portrayed as the ultimate femme fatale, extrac…
5 years ago
Vaccination
All of the UK adult population is to be offered a COVID-19 Vaccination by September 2021. Many other countries are aiming for similar roll-outs in on…
5 years ago
Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds
Literary satire has long used mathematical concepts to reinforce its points. Gulliver’s Travels (1724) played with ideas of dimension, size, and shap…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Secrets of Darwin's Greenhouse
Despite the controversy, evolution was widely accepted by many naturalists within a few years of the Origin's appearance. An important reason fo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Is There a Level Playing Field at Inquests? From Death on the Rock to the Birmingham Pub Bombings
Is there is a level playing field between participants at inquests? What does 'equality of arms' mean? Is such a concept appropriate when l…
5 years, 1 month ago
England's Tudor Reformation
The English Reformation - unlike many of the other Reformations convulsing sixteenth-century Europe - was at heart more about politics and law than a…
5 years, 1 month ago
Cosmic Vision: Unravelling Rainbows
When light is dispersed into its constituent colours, it can become possible to discern rich dynamical information about an evolving system in space,…
5 years, 1 month ago
An Introduction to Programs
Niklaus Wirth said Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. But programs are more than that. They are ubiquitous in modern life, but only a tiny mino…
5 years, 1 month ago
Building Back Better - The City's Role in a Green-Led Economic Recovery
Solving climate change is not something that can be achieved overnight; it is a long journey, one that is complicated by the economic problems we fac…
5 years, 1 month ago
Neutrino: The Particle that Shouldn’t Exist
In 1930, the great physicist Wolfgang Pauli did something that “no theorist should ever do”: he invented a new particle that he thought nobody could …
5 years, 1 month ago