Three Cheers for Teachers Everywhere!

Precision: The Measure of All Things

Professor Marcus du Sautoy - who is effectively a numerical evangelist, as well as a master storyteller - once again takes an unappetising premise and turns it into educational gold. 

'Precision: The Measure of All Things' explores humanity's obsession with compartmentalising the environment into ever-more-precise units of measurement - from the first cave paintings of the Cro-Magnons, to today's atomic clocks. In the first edition, du Sautoy charts the history of the metre and the second, and examines scientists' continuing efforts to redefine how time and length are quantified.

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Bacterium-sized Bunny the future for Bionic Brains

Scientists in Japan have created a new material that can be shaped into complex, conductive 3-D structures. Get ready for your custom brain electrodes.

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The Modern Periodic Table

Ten questions on grammar

Grammar is in the headlines with the arrival of a new test for primary school children, but how much do you know about apostrophes, semi-colons and dangling participles?

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Commander Chris Hadfield - Space Oddity

Commander Chris Hadfield - the first Canadian to walk in space and surely the coolest man in space* - released this version of David Bowie's  Space Oddity on 12 May 2013, after handing over command of the International Space Station before returning home.




* And described by Forbes as "perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth".

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