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CBS Despatch reports from the beautiful old city of Sana’a, the 2,500 year old capital of Yemen. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is being restored with local techniques and materials, by local craftsmen. Picture: eesti.
The magnificent granddaddy of historical documentaries, the BBC’s Civilisation, has been fully remastered from the original 35mm film that it was shot on. The 13-part series will broadcast on the BBC’s HD (High Definition) channel in February 2011. Presenter Kenneth Clark.
clipped from www.guardian.co.uk the country’s remarkable range of larger moths is catalogued in a new atlas made up of 11.3m individual records. Based on records from thousands of 10x10km squares across the country Moths are important indicators of the welfare of wildlife generally, sensitive to atmospherics and with their caterpillars central to bird diet in [...]
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk A new scheme to recognise the dedication of British soldiers has “snowballed” across the UK after it was set up from a fish-and-chip shop in Scarborough. Heroes Welcome is now all set to become a nationally recognised symbol — as shops, hotels restaurants and taxi drivers eagerly adopt the idea. The scheme [...]
Bill Stone talks about his work leading large expeditions to explore and photograph the world’s deepest caves. To go where humans cannot, he has also invented innovative autonomous exploration robots, planned for use on the NASA mission to find life on the moon Europa.
clipped from www.baltimoresun.com An accident left Kel Millionie without most of his vision, but that won’t keep him off stage or even 10 feet above it Using trapezes, harnesses and aerial cloths, Millionie and eight other performers from Daydreams & Nightmares Aerial Theatre explored the story of what happened to the mythical Greek youth after [...]
clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Underwater bacteria had devoured nearly all the methane gas from BP’s blown-out well by August, says a study in Science the latest study, published in Science, offers an important new piece of information to help resolve the question of what happened to the underwater plume of oil and gas that stretched for [...]
Qatar-1b, a new planet lying outside our solar system, has been identified with the help of British students. The ‘new alien world’ was found in record time thanks to teamwork and internet communications among astronomers in Qatar, the States, Germany, Denmark, and British universities of Leicester and Keele.
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