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Eric Boa
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The Marmite Tree: how Eucalyptus gained a bad reputation it does not deserve
There are two sharply opposing views on eucalypts, a genus of over 700 species native mainly to Australia, and mostly trees. A small...
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Richard Despard
9 min read
The Greatest Threat from China – its control of Rare Earth Elements
Last month I wrote to Only Connect’s editor, Richard Pooley, asking: ‘Where was the leadership and strategy plan that the EU’s Brussels...
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Eric Boa
5 min read
What’s for dinner: sweet or Irish?
If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
መልካም አዲስ ዓመት[1] Happy New Year 2017
I am writing this on the first day of 2017 in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. In the Western calendar it is September 11, a day that...
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Michael Carberry
6 min read
All the History You Ever Needed
What does a prolific author and television presenter of popular histories, biographies, novels and children’s books but who has also...
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