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Press release: Ten point plan to cut 10,000 unnecessary cancer deaths in the UK
One of Britain’s leading Consultant Oncologists claims that a staggering 10,000 deaths per year are caused by the NHS’s failure to treat cancer patients fast enough and he has drawn…
Publication of the week: Professor Susan Edwards
Edwards, S., “The claims of necessity: Good and harm, excuses and justifications and the moral narratives of necessity”, in Alan Reed & Michael Bohlander (eds), General Defences in Criminal Law…
Forthcoming seminar, 2 February 2015: Dr Barbara Lasic, “De Bons Citoyens: John and Josephine Bowes’ collecting of Revolutionary ephemera”
Passionate and eclectic collectors, John and Josephine Bowes assembled one of the largest art collections of the second half of the 19th century which included Old Master Paintings, Renaissance objets…
Is this picture a ‘seed’ sent to Earth by aliens? Scientists discover mysterious organism
Professor Milton Wainwright and his team have found a microscopic metal globe in dust and particulate matter collected from the stratosphere. Professor Wainwright said the structure is made from the…
In the news – 20 January 2015
Newspaper coverage of security issues quoting Professor Glees: The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11353243/Convicted-terror-leader-with-link-to-Paris-who-we-cannot-deport.html Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2915028/ISIS-fighters-fake-death-Syria-slip-UK-Europe-without-detected-plot-terror-attacks.html, Daily Star: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/420831/Britain-cannot-deport-terrorist-big-shot-al-qaeda-because-of-human-rights-law The Sun on Sunday: A TERRORIST how-to guide urging lone wolf bomb attacks…
Sir Chris Woodhead Blog: Wilshaw is Right, but Nothing Has Changed in 20 Years
To survive as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, you need various strengths. A good political nose helps, as does a determination to cut through the swirl of the education…
Ghost particle
The Daily Express published images of a spectral ‘ghost particle’ discovered in debris gathered from the stratosphere. They quote Professor Milton Wainwright, who speculates “that in its space environment this…
In the news – 13 January 2015
Professor Glees was quoted in a Daily Mail article: Was British ISIS fanatic who hacked Tony Blair’s Gmail account behind cyber-attack on US Central Command’s Twitter page? He was also…
Publication of the week: A.A. Abdulla, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim
Abdulla, A.A., Sellahewa, H. & Jassim, S.A., “Stego quality enhancement by message size reduction and fibonacci bit-plane mapping”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence…
New Head of Applied Computing
Last November, Dr Harin Sellahewa took over as Head of Applied Computing from Professor Sabah Jassim who will remain in a non-managerial role. Professor Jassim is sad to step down…