History of science
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DNA double helix: discovery that led to 60 years of biological revolution
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8 Sep 2014:
The British Science Festival has long frustrated people as more about PR than debate. In 1970, activists decided to shake things up and staged an intervention.
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8 Sep 2014: 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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6 Sep 2014:
A new film tells the intricate tale of a science that transformed our view of the world
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3 Sep 2014: 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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1 Sep 2014: 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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29 Aug 2014:
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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24 Aug 2014: Katharine Hodgkin finds Adam Ganz’s play about her grandmother’s relationship with Margaret Thatcher an uncomfortable listen
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20 Aug 2014: Dean Burnett: Yet another look at what great moments in science would have looked like if they happened via Twitter
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13 Aug 2014:
A new play explores one of the most intriguing friendships in the history of science and politics: Margaret Thatcher and Dorothy Hodgkin. Alice Bell spoke to playwright Adam Ganz
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11 Aug 2014:
Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi argues that Aristotle laid the foundations of modern science. Plus, the Ebola outbreak; Rosetta's rendezvous with a comet; and taking aspirin to prevent cancer
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4 Aug 2014: Writing in The Lancet, Richard Horton called historians of medicine “invisible, inaudible, and … inconsequential”. Historian of medicine Carsten Timmermann responds
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26 Jul 2014:
Jon Butterworth: Science and war have a complex relationship, mediated by technology and politics. Some thoughts on an excellent lecture by Jon Agar
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21 Jul 2014: Dean Burnett: What if Twitter had been around at the time of famous scientists and scientific breakthroughs?
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18 Jul 2014: 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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15 Jul 2014:
The Beagle's library of more than 400 books has been reconstructed and made freely available in digital form
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