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The Nobel Prize winner at the bottom of the garden | Tycho's Nose
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The shiny bits of science. The Nobel Prize winner at the bottom of the garden. Of all the mind-bendingly expensive streets in Chelsea, The Boltons, pictured above, are probably the most picture-postcard perfect. Homes here will cost you somewhere in the vicinity of 2,500 per square foot which, based on Sigma-Aldrich prices. Is nearly 20% the price of an equivalent area in gold. For several months all went well till one day a visitor, glancing out of the window said to her hostess, “my dear, what. Sir Wil...
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Birmingham flushes £9 million down the toilet every year | Tycho's Nose
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The shiny bits of science. Birmingham flushes 9 million down the toilet every year. Not all that glistens is gold. But sometimes gold can be found in glistening materials that you wouldn’t really want to look in. Has shown that the sewage produced by a city of 1 million inhabitants — for example, Birmingham — will contain about 9 million worth of rare metals, such as gold, platinum and silver. Read more: How we may have lost the world’s largest dinosaur. In a talk which took place unfortunately just befo...
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The shiny bits of science. PhD Student in Materials Chemistry at Imperial College London, Blogs occasionally at mattallinson.com. The violent history of train-wreck publicity. Sometimes a publicity stunt can be a complete train wreck. The hashtag #susanalbumparty. That required re-reading a few times, the Air Force One Photoshoot. That nearly evacuated Manhattan, and the decision to spice up a production of. With a real cannon which inadvertently burned down the Globe Theatre. And tagged British Rail.
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The violent history of train-wreck publicity | Tycho's Nose
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The shiny bits of science. The violent history of train-wreck publicity. Sometimes a publicity stunt can be a complete train wreck. The hashtag #susanalbumparty. That required re-reading a few times, the Air Force One Photoshoot. That nearly evacuated Manhattan, and the decision to spice up a production of. With a real cannon which inadvertently burned down the Globe Theatre. History is littered with PR events that have gone off the rails. But there is a bizarre history of train-wrecks. This tragedy didn...
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