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North Korea: The Grand Tour
30th April, 2019‘Photographs of ordinary and yet extraordinary life in the last communist state from an ideological, political and cultural perspective’
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Biologist Rates The Pain Of 83 Different Insects Stings
09th January, 2019“King of Sting” Justin O. Schmidt is a biologist at the Southwestern Biological Institute. A “connoisseur of pain,” he has ranked 83 different insect stings on a pain index based on his own experience.
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Tajik teacher makes hydroelectric station from soviet scrap
06th August, 201820-minute film about Raïmberdi Mamatumarov, a teacher and Biologist in Tajikistan who built a hydroelectric station out of soviet scraps.
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PBS: Don’t let the obsession with precision obscure the beauty of imperfection
06th August, 2018Simon Winchester on the idea of precision.
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The Macaulay Library
06th June, 2018‘The Macaulay Library is the world’s premier scientific archive of natural history audio, video, and photographs. Although the Macaulay Library’s history is rooted in birds, the collection includes amphibians, fishes, and mammals, and the collection preserves recordings of each species’ behavior and natural history.’
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National Geographic Has Digitized Its Collection of 6,000+ Vintage Maps
15th May, 2018“As some of the finest fictional world-builders have understood, few things excite the imagination like a map.”
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TED Talk: Record Collectors and Cultural Archivists
29th January, 2018“For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultural heritage by “digging” for obscure music created by overlooked artists.”
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The Ghan – 17hr broadcast
29th January, 2018“Cruelly tasked with sitting through Australia’s first foray into ‘slow TV’, Naaman Zhou finds The Ghan both mesmerising and rewarding”
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TED Blog Article: 40 Idioms That Can’t Be Translated Literally
28th December, 2017Potentially useful when travelling. Funny to read.
Our favourite:
The idiom: Tomaten auf den Augen haben.
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Art Dealer, Ray Hughes does ‘Sunday Brunch’ with Simon Marnie
28th December, 2017Ray Hughes died earlier this month, aged 72.
“Listen to Ray’s life and career as he does Sunday Brunch with Simon Marnie”.
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