BrucieWeb » Science http://blog.elrick.net by Bruce Elrick, London Web Wonder. Blogging on current affairs, technology, tv, photography, music, film and London town. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:05:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 BBC Audio Slideshows http://blog.elrick.net/2010/03/bbc-audio-slideshows/ http://blog.elrick.net/2010/03/bbc-audio-slideshows/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:10:42 +0000 elricb http://blog.elrick.net/?p=3010 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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via FT.com / Books / Non-Fiction – Seeing Further.

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