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A collection of 58 issues

Biroid lifestyle

Did Biros really revolutionise writing? Fifty-seven Bic Biros are sold every second (and then "borrowed" by passing colleagues) - not bad for a 60-year-old product. But did the pens really make that much of a difference? It was a familiar frustration that led to the invention of the

Blog the Country II

BBC News: Blog project reveals daily lives. More than 30,000 people across Britain have recorded a diary of their day as part of a project to create an online snapshot of life in the country. The National Trust said the entries - which range from the mundane to the

Blog the Country

BBC News: 'Mass blog' to capture UK Tuesday . People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an "ordinary day much like any other of no particular

All mapped out

BBC News: From Aaron Hill to Zoffany St. When Phyllis Pearsall, born 100 years ago on Monday, got lost on her way to a party in 1930s London, she set about designing her own street map of the capital. The result - the A-Z - has become a byword for

Domesday online

BBC News: Internet upgrade for Domesday Book. The Domesday Book has embarked on many varied journeys in its 920-year lifetime. Its latest stop is now the web. The iconic 11th Century document, which has been rebound, copied, facsimiled and even hidden in prisons, has been made available online. This latest

Archimedes and the synchrotron

BBC News: X-rays reveal Archimedes secrets. A series of hidden texts written by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being revealed by US scientists. Until now, the pages have remained obscured by paintings and texts laid down on top of the original writings. Using a non-destructive technique known as X-ray

TV History

Found the TV Ark a while back, and have been exploring the old children's TV programs I used to watch. The "Umpty Flump" post title came from an episode of The Flumps (intro here on Realplayer) called The Cloud, where a grey cloud follows the Flump

Kanga the destroyer

BBC News: 'Killer kangaroo' evidence found. Palaeontologists digging in northern Australia have found fossil evidence of several new species - including a "killer kangaroo". The flesh-eating marsupial would have lived between 10 and 20 million years ago, scientists say. The research team has also unearthed evidence

Tools in the garden

BBC News: Front garden yields ancient tools. The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for, new archaeological evidence suggests. It comes in the form of giant flint handaxes that have been unearthed at a site at Cuxton in

Lost city

BBC News: Search for India's ancient city. Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have solved the mystery of the location of a major port which was key to trade between India and the Roman Empire - Muziris, in the modern-day state of Kerala.

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