BBC Focus Magazine

Hi,
I've been reading Focus for years now and decided in December to finally subscribe. Just wondered if anyone out there knows roughly when the magazine is posted each month. The money was deducted from my account 0n Dec 10th 2009 but as yet, no sign of a magazine. I've contacted them twice via e-mail but no replys as yet either. Anyone else had a similar experience?

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Australia-based EnviroMission Ltd recently announced plans to build two solar updraft towers that span hundreds of acres in La Paz County, Arizona. Solar updraft technology sounds promising enough: generate hot air with a giant greenhouse, channel the air into a chimney-like device, and let the warm wind turn a wind turbine to produce energy. The idea isn’t new — it’s been around since the mid 1980’s — but it’s only now starting to take off.

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Ever since Clarence Cook Little started his landmark genetic experiments on mice more than a century ago, the mouse has been the go-to animal model for medical research.

But a wide variety of other animals can be found in medical labs around the world. Taken (or stitched) together, they form a kind of laboratory doppelganger for humans: similar biology, fewer moral qualms—though certainly not none.

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This striking image taken by Nasa's Terra satellite on 7 January shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current cold snap.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm

Anyone catch the programme on dogs the other day?

Really interesting (and lots of cute dogs)...

There was one lady who started selectively breeding silver foxes 50 years ago, selecting the most docile from each litter of pups eventually leading to a breed that was totally tame and what's more, interesting and unique colour patterns started to emerge, differences in tail curl and ears wee also apparent.

So, all dogs coming from grey wolves (being ...

Is warm snow possible?

Obviously not here on earth but perhaps on a planet with a very hot temperature and a large amount of gaseous metal in its atmosphere, if it had a cold winter (comparitive to its regular temperature) would the metals solidify and fall as snow?

Indeed, would mercury fall as rain if there was enough of it in our atmosphere? Actually, scrub that, I dont think it gets hot enough here to ...

Why is it so bl**dy cold...?
:shock:

How does our current cold snap sit in the global warming theory?
I'm not sceptical, I just don't understand why we are not having "warmer" winters.

The only educational games I ever played at secondary school and college involved nothing but pairing cards - if you didn't know the material, you weren't made curious enough to find out, and if you did it was no challenge.

But now, as the current students going through GCSE's and A levels are preparing for the much predicted zombie invasion by using new interesting ways to kill them on their consoles, should the educational system ...

As oppoposed to the other topic :mrgreen:

Can comparrison's be drawn with religions used in sci fi writeings films etc, to actual religions, in use past and present. Also could religions be taken up from science fiction works ie: as in the jedi culture

Hey guys, been awhile! I like the changes to the forum!

I'm one semester into my medical degree, and one piece of terminology seems to keep popping up that I'm not sure I get.

I know genes code for proteins etc... We've been looking at the p53 guardian protein recently, and in a lot of literature its referred to as the p53 gene, and in others its the p53 protein. Does this mean that, generally, ...