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Just heard "an expert" say something stupid on an In Our Time best-of-archive show.
Basically, he said, if you look at a piece of radioactive material then you [can] stop it radiating.
Uh-Oh! #DemonCore
Ennius25th May is the feast of the Venerable Bede and here's the episode of #BBCInOurTime in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the monk at Jarrow who became an internationally renowned scholar.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The...
a history of Paul von Hindenburg (made Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany in the belief that he could be controlled)
PepijnVemerNice. This week's #BBCInOurTime is about #PaulErdos. Looking forward to listening to the discussion.
Laura Phillipshttps://t.co/8hMBvWlsn9 Prof Karen O'Brien, Prof Fiona Stafford and Paddy Bullard on #BBCInOurTime with #MelvynBragg Thu 22 Dec 9am #BBCRadio4, then #BBCSounds discussing #JaneAusten's #Persuasion. A pre-#Christmas treat. Only the #bbc does this. Free to hear, funded by <44p a day per household licence fee. Because we’re worth it. “My idea of good company..is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of #conversation..”
Irish PhilosophyThe following years saw #JonathanSwift write his masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" and the remarkable and still shocking "A Modest Proposal" #BBCInOurTime https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3650
And a host of other pamphlets, poems and sermons.
Swift made enemies but also many friends, including a coterie of literary women whom he encouraged and supported, and who defended him in return after his death.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2019/04/07/the-triumfeminate-and-other-dublin-women-swifts-female-senate/
#triumfeminate #WomensWriting
