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Monday 8 September 2014
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The case of Ashya King highlights a peculiarity in our culture, the family medical ‘human interest’ story. Emm Johnstone explains how such stories of private pain became public property – especially when a dangerously sick child was the focus of attention.
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Wednesday 3 September 2014
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Rebekah Higgitt: 100 years ago, British scientists travelled to Australia for the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The event was meant to promote science, progress and empire but was overshadowed by the announcement of war
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Monday 1 September 2014
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If you were going back in time, what bit of scientific knowledge would help you survive? Vanessa Heggie is running an event at the British Science Festival which tries to answer this tricky question.
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Friday 29 August 2014
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Today’s report on hospital food standards emphasises the struggle we seem to have providing good food to modern patients: yet medieval patients got personalised diets, fresh figs, local honey and chicken in saffron stew. Vanessa Heggie asks, what’s gone wrong?
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Monday 4 August 2014
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Writing in The Lancet, Richard Horton called historians of medicine “invisible, inaudible, and … inconsequential”. Historian of medicine Carsten Timmermann responds
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Friday 18 July 2014
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Rebekah Higgitt: It’s a story that has it all: skill, heroic endeavour, capture by the French and a cat. Familiar to Australians, a new statue to Matthew Flinders at Euston aims to bring his reputation home
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Thursday 10 July 2014
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A gallery of images from a new exhibition marking the tercentenary of the first Longitude Act - it opens tomorrow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
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Tuesday 8 July 2014
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In the wake of recent flaps over personal data stored online, Sarah Dry considers the history and digitisation of Isaac Newton’s private papers
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Monday 7 July 2014
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Were vegetarian sausages invented during the first world war? Why did the German government slaughter 9 million pigs in 1915? Vanessa Heggie explores the surprising connections between war and pork products
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Thursday 26 June 2014
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With the announcement of the winning challenge for the Longitude Prize, Richard Dunn asks what history tells us about finding a 'new John Harrison'
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Friday 20 June 2014
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Rebekah Higgitt: A new book on John Tyndall and 19th century scientific naturalism raises questions that are still relevant to how we communicate science and authority today
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Friday 13 June 2014
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With a new consultation under way on British science policy’s future, James Sumner asks what we can learn from the past
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Thursday 12 June 2014
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Last year a report organised by the German Federal Institute for Sport Science suggested that traces of amphetamines had been found in the urine of the West German team who competed in the 1966 World Cup. Vanessa Heggie uncovers the history of this claim, and the surprising role of British football in the science of drug detection
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Monday 2 June 2014
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One of the forgotten battles of the first world war was fought for Chilean dirt. Daniel A Gross traces the explosive story of nitrates from South America to the western front
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Monday 19 May 2014
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The 2014 Longitude Prize, launched today, has a steering committee chaired by the Astronomer Royal. Rebekah Higgitt compares it to the original 18th-century Board of Longitude
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