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The Food Standards Agency
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The Food Standards Agency on that old chestnut, reheating rice.
“Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at[…]

Making your pets work for you.
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Making your pets work for you.[…]

Written by Louise Dann, a real actual scientist
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Written by Louise Dann, a real actual scientist
Use by dates and the science behind them.
This actually isn’t scientific so much as a personal rant about injustices done to food in the name of health and safety. Having a quick squizz at the Foo[…]

How to popularise botany?
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How to popularise botany?: two crass routes spring to mind. The first is FLESH-EATING PLANTS. The second is DRUGS. Neither is open to a family attraction like The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Well, OK, you could try for the flesh-eating plants thing[…]

TALK TO FRANK
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TALK TO FRANK
The much derided British national drugs site is actually pretty good. There are a couple of “uncool” howlers on the front page (the Going Down section perhaps) but it does manage to convince you of its message that it is jus[…]

Hi-Fi Technology Failure Turns to Booze
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Hi-Fi Technology Failure Turns to Booze[…]

A new way of detecting weapons!
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A new way of detecting weapons! Using TeraHetz technology, it can stop terror, hurting (do you do you see). The efficacy of any detecting device is all depending on the person weilding it however. The problem kicks in when with all the whizzy devices[…]

Is this the BBC’s most confusing graphic?
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Is this the BBC’s most confusing graphic?
It’s not the BBC’s fault, the very concept of doing a scale model like this brings in the confusion. This educational project is a grander version of something that every science teacher do[…]

Inventions That Changed the World – The Computer
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Inventions That Changed the World – The Computer (repeated, I think, last night on BBC2)
A show that has Jeremy Clarkson talking to Kevin ‘Cyborg’ Warwick? How awful can it get? At one point I was charitable enough to think Clarkson[…]

Who’s a posh boy then?
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Who’s a posh boy then?: parrots invade the London suburbs![…]

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