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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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
BBC Radio in the LP Era (1948–1982)
The long-playing record and the BBC’s Third Programme changed the face of classical music in Britain.
In popular music the 45 rpm record became the r…
5 years, 3 months ago
Russian Piano Masterpieces: Scriabin
Scriabin was Rachmaninov’s classmate at the Moscow Conservatoire, and he likewise received a Gold Medal for his combined studies in piano and composi…
5 years, 3 months ago
Will Computers Outsmart Mathematicians?
Humans use computers to do gigantic calculations which would be impossible to do by hand – for example, weather prediction.
But could an AI go beyond…
5 years, 3 months ago