Month: June 2022
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Travel
The new naturalists until the voyage of HMS Endeavour
Box of bugs Among Joseph Banks’ haul from the Endeavour, the expedition was more than 4,000 insects, including this cabinet…
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Cooking
The need for a national food, health, and well-being policy
A final reason for dietary uncertainty is that our food system has become so political. Government policies heavily influence our…
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Cooking
Cooking our way out of this mess one meal at a time
Time and money are the biggest perceived obstacles to eating well. In most cases, neither is a true obstacle. Americans…
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Automobile
Gear wheel positions when different gears are selected
Neutral All main shaft gear wheels are positioned so that they do not touch the layshaft gears, this enables them…
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Technology
The sliding-mesh gearbox Basis of the modern manual gearbox
The sliding-mesh gearbox was popular on cars up to about 1930, but today it is rarely used. Nevertheless, many modern…
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Celebrity
Mark Wilkinson Founder of Mark Wilkinson Furniture
Mark Wilkinson did not have an easy time at school. He was severely dyslexic but it was the 1950s and…
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Celebrity
Tim Roupell Founder of Daily Bread
Attached to Tim Roupell’s computer is a scrap of paper that says: ‘To avoid seasickness look to the horizon.’ He…
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Health
Defense Mechanisms Nonspecific Immune Defenses
The mechanisms available to the human organism for defense against viral infection can be classified in two groups. The nonspecific…
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