News tagged with victorian period
Bodleian uses crowd-sourcing to catalogue music collection
The Bodleian Library is asking the public for help in cataloguing one of its collections. As part of a new project, members of the public are being asked to help describe 4,000 music pieces from the Bodleian ...
May 04, 2012 |
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Vampires and Zombies: No mere pop culture trend
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vampires and zombies, both of which became a popular phenomenon in Victorian Britain, are all the rage. Temple English Professor Peter Logan believes this is no mere pop culture trend, but ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Funding secures the future of Australian Synchrotron
A $95-million rescue package for the world-class Australian Synchrotron research centre will ensure local scientists can “remain at the forefront of the highly competitive world of fundamental and applied ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Stanford scholar chronicles evolution of Chinese love through texts
This is a love story: A young Chinese man, Bohe, and a young Chinese woman, Dihua, have just been betrothed. Both of them are amenable to the parentally arranged match. Unfortunately, before they have the ...
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Feb 14, 2012 |
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Shipwrecked: Women and children first?
Barely three months short of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on 15 April 1912, another shipwreck has galvanised the world’s attention. With tragic stories of loss, chaos and ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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British Library puts 19th C newspapers online
(AP) -- The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes - and the transport was a mess.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Aboriginal astronomers observed and recorded a 'supernova-impostor' event: research
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Macquarie University astronomers Duane Hamacher and David Frew supports the assertion that Aboriginal Australians were active observers of the night sky and incorporated significant ...
Nov 09, 2010 |
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What mimicking one's language style may mean about the relationship
People match each other's language styles more during happier periods of their relationship than at other times, according to new research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150-year-old pressed plants
Plants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful - and much needed - new source of data for studying climate ...
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Mechanical logic gate: Could levers replace transistors?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in the Victorian period, Charles Babbage created a mechanical computer that made use of levers and cogs to get data moving. These days, though, our computers are mostly run using electronic ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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iPhone-maker rallies workers after China suicides
(AP) -- Young workers who normally spend their days assembling iPhones and other high-tech gadgets packed a stadium at their massive campus Wednesday, waving pompoms and shouting slogans at a rally to raise ...
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Google Books may advance humanities research, scholars say
When scholars seek to understand long-ago cultures, they tend to draw conclusions from the handful of famous writers and thinkers whose works endure today. John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle peppered their books with words ...
Aug 05, 2010 |
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