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20th March 2014 Pretoria, South Africa
Marking South Africa’s Human Rights Day
Friday 21 March is South Africa’s Human Rights day. It commemorates the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960, when 69 people died and 180 were wounded after the police fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered to protest against the restrictive pass laws imposed on non-white citizens. The protest was a stand by ordinary […]
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20th March 2014 Mumbai, India
Interview with Dr. Philip Earis, the Royal Society of Chemistry
Dr. Philip Earis has worked for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing since 2003. He is Executive Editor of the journals – Nanoscale, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Green Chemistry, Catalysis Science & Technology, Faraday Discussions and Energy & Environmental Science. Prior to working for the RSC, he was at the University of Cambridge. Philip has […]
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20th March 2014
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Behind the scenes at the museum
One of the issues that sometimes crosses my desk is the return of indigenous remains from western museums. So I went along to London’s Natural History Museum to call on Director Michael Dixon and his experts to find out more. More than half NHM’s human collection consists of British remains. They enable scientific research which […]
19th March 2014 Vancouver, Canada
An Energetic Discussion
A few weeks ago I found myself in a bar in Houston, Texas. Old Colt 45 pistols for door handles, animal skulls for wall hangings, a single guitarist playing a mournful country song – I’d walked into a cliché movie set (awesome)…
19th March 2014 Washington DC, USA
Science: Why it matters to everyone
You could say that science runs in my family. Later this year, after several years of studying the effects of influenza, my older brother will earn his Doctorate in virology. My younger sister studies food science and will soon be a registered dietitian. However, the subject was never my calling. But as a member of […]
19th March 2014 Cape Town, South Africa
PM Trade Envoy sees GREAT partnership opportunities in South Africa
Guest blog by the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to South Africa Baroness Patricia Scotland As the UK celebrated the extraordinary life of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela with a vibrant service in Westminster Abbey I travelled to a very rainy Johannesburg to begin the latest series of engagements in my role as Prime Minister’s […]
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19th March 2014 Sofia, Bulgaria
Bittersweet Recollections of Bulgaria in the 70s
by Anne Clay Anne Clay lived in Bulgaria between 1973-1975. Anne is Edward Clay’s wife, who was Second Secretary and Cultural Attaché at British Embassy Sofia in the same period. To reach Bulgaria, Anne and her husband, together with their fourteen-month old baby, crossed Europe by car. Before Bulgaria, the family spent two years in East Africa. […]
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19th March 2014 Warsaw, Poland
WHERE’S MY CHEESE? – The GREAT British Food Tour 2014 (part 7)
My name’s Trevor and I’m a Bangor Mussel man. I beg your pardon sir….What I meant to say is that I produce and purvey the finest Welsh Mussels to prestigious Amsterdam and Paris tables. The French and the Dutch love mussels and so do we! Mussels have the most impressive nutritional profile of all shellfish. […]
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19th March 2014 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Regional Southeast Asia Climate Analysis and Modelling (SEACAM) Workshops
This is a guest blog by Dr Saiful Azmi bin Hj Husain, a senior lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He has been taking part in the Southeast Asia Climate Analysis and Modelling (SEACAM) framework initiated by the Centre for Climate Research Singapore (CCRS) in collaboration with the […]
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19th March 2014
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Learning to Drive
Last week there was a nasty accident outside our house. We heard a loud bang and looked out to see two cars with severe damage and a driver slumped over the steering wheel. Fortunately no-one was killed, but both drivers were lucky to escape with their lives. The first person killed in a car accident […]