Eton College Jin Lu: What did these famous people have in common? Helen: The Duke of Wellington, the writers Shelley and George Orwell, Prince William and Prince Harry? Jin Lu: Any ideas? Well they were all educated in the boys only school Eton Colle...
Basically its very interesting because its so varied. You never have the same day twice. And the patients that you meet are all very different, they come in with different characters and different illnesses so it makes your job very interesting in th...
I know that every cell in my body has a copy of my DNA packed into its nucleus. And I also know that if I could somehow unravel the DNA from a single cell, it would be about six feet long. So my question is, is DNA jammed into the nucleus in a sort o...
Making gravy Anyone who has made gravy for a big holiday dinner knows that heating a bit of fat and some flour, and then adding broth will eventually create a thick sauce to cover your plate of mashed potatoes and turkey. But exactly what turns these...
Fruit Fly Learning You might think those pesky little fruit flies gathering around your fresh produce every summer are too stupid to know a banana from a pear. Theyre barely large enough to see. They certainly cant have that much brain power, can the...
Bargaining How much is the ivory box? It costs 750. Its too much, its too much. Whats your best price? Well, the best best is 700. 700. Ok, I take it. Ok. Thank you very much. Thank you. Helen: Is bargaining common practice in the UK? And what do peo...
Potential energy in a crossbow When we think of the concept of energy, we often think of objects in motion: a car rolling down a hill or a jogger running up a hill. This kind of energy-in-motion, called kinetic energy, isnt the only kind of energy. A...
Recycling Plastics When plastic containers are recycled, they are first cleaned, then ground into tiny pellets and put into a flotation tank. This separates out the various plastic resins from other waste material. Once they are separated out, the pl...
Accountants People say Britain is run by accountants, is that true? Lets find out. Heres Alex MacDermot, who works for a charity. I wouldnt say we are run by accountants, but they do an important job. In a sense its true, because all of the major dec...
Nannies Andrea: Mary Poppins is the best known one.She was a typical English nanny. Andrea: They wanted to know if having a nanny or domestic help was the norm. Andrea: Well we asked Vanessa Cooke who runs Little Ones, a nanny agency based in London....
The Ba Imagine a game of football played not with 11 but hundreds of players on each side; contested not on a soft field of grass but on cold, hard flagstone streets; and where there are no rules and no referee to control the surging mass of bodies....
But like all technology, computer graphics are dated the instant you pay for them. Take a dispassionate second look at T2 some time. The morphing metal man now looks quaint. Not so when he freezes and shatters, done via a model (Stan Winston again)....
Bristol My names Rebecca and I was born in Bristol and lived there until I was 18 years old until I went to university. And still go back and visit quite frequently now because my family still live there. Andrea: Bristol is 170 kilometers west of Lon...
Terminator: Salvation Im gonna plant a flag and say that the fourth film in the Terminator series is not science fiction. Furthermore, thats exactly its problem. Arguing about whether something is science fiction is probably self-defeating but that d...
Dictionaries Hello, I'm a student in Hangzhou. I have a zest for collecting all kinds of dictionaries. I want to learn what dictionaries British people use and what is the most popular. Well, we have a few dictionaries that I use. Sometimes I just us...
