Archive for the 'Science' Category

Mar 26 2010

BBC Audio Slideshows

Published by elricb under London, Science

The quality of these continue to improve. They now use much bigger photography.

A few recent ones have a link to me personally.

My old boss at The Royal Society, Stephen Cox describes the Society’s new Royal Mail special stamp issue as part of their 350th Anniversary celebrations.

Slideshow
Telegraph

The second slideshow relates to the Society again – and again looks at its 350th Anniversary

Slideshow
350th Anniversary site (which is fantastic by the way)

Another past employer, The Wellcome Trust/Wellcome Collection have been very successful in interesting the BBC in their work and have produced numerous sideshows on their excellent research and engaging collections:

The Aids message: 1st December 2009
Breathing In: 4th November 2009
Anatomical entertainment: 29th July 2009
Quacks and Cures: 6th July 2009
Step Right Up: 14th March 2009
Up to the hilt: 4th March 2009
Army medics on the front-line: 17th December 2008

Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Collection

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Feb 03 2010

Seeing Further

Published by elricb under Science

If British science has a home, it has resided since 1967 in the elegant, Regency splendour of 6-9 Carlton House Terrace in London. This is the headquarters of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, which this year celebrates its 350th anniversary. It is a building which hums with the energy of ideas.

via FT.com / Books / Non-Fiction – Seeing Further.

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