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An analysis of what we can learn of the earth’s fragile ecology from what is being revealed thanks to recent developments in space technology which have allowed us to view the Earth in new and amazing ways, identifying our impact on land, atmosphere, oceans and freshwater in astonishing detail.
Narrative, the way a tale is told, is less straightforward than we might suppose. Austen handled irony brilliantly and systematically exploited new ways of narrating, including free indirect discourse. This lecture explores why Austen's way of narrating are so compelling.
The story of supermassive black holes lurk in the very centres of galaxies and the gravity wave experiments being planned to search for traces of their formation.