 Until the arrival of social media, being a curator at the British Library remained a solitary, out of the way job. In many ways it still is for Julian Harrison, curator of pre-1600 historical manuscripts. Behind the scenes he cares for the priceless collections that include copies of Beowulf, some of the world’s oldest Bibles, the Lindisfarne Gospels and the state papers of Henry VIII. He curates exhibitions such as the current Magna Carta: law, liberty, legacy. The difference for Harrison these days is that he does all this with a virtual audience of thousands.
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 All over the world are similar reports of a large creature that is
ape-like, yet walks upright on two feet and displays other human
characteristics.
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 Astronauts on the early Apollo missions orbiting over to the dark
side of the moon were surprised to discover a mysterious, bright
crescent of light glowing at the horizon. The controversial explanation
was sunlight scattered by dust high in the Moon’s tenuous atmosphere,
but proof has been hard to come by. Fast forward half a century and, for
the first time, a team of scientists has analysed the Moon’s
atmospheric dust in real time, discovering a permanent dust cloud. Surprisingly, however, they have failed to explain the glow.
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 Scientists have investigated a few highly publicized cases of people
who claim not to eat or drink for years, yet remain quite healthy. Any
scientific investigations that have supported these claims, however,
have remained controversial.
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