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Samuel Johnson’s 1755 dictionary was one heck of an achievement. But it is also far from perfect. In this episode, Jess and Rob discuss some of the more amusing entries within its pages, and even the words that landed dear Samuel in hot water. Enjoy this cover-to-cover exploration of English’s most important dictionary and the extraordinary man who wrote it.
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Today we visit Salford home of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Restoration, The River Irwell and the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal. Manchester was once a booming industrial town and these canals helped fuel the development. Now buried beneath sky scrapers the canal network is thriving and developing into a green space, a nature corridor and a commuter route for many giving a green lung back to the city
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The supermarket is one of the strangest and most powerful inventions in human history.
Grocery shopping is often perceived as a simple, mundane activity. And for many, access to food has never been more effortless. But supermarkets hold far more power than we realize. The journey our groceries take to reach the shelves touches every part of our lives – from our health, to our culture, to the environment.
In this episode of Human Footprint, Shane Campbell-Staton embarks on a global investigation into the supermarket’s origins, revealing how they transformed the world and grappling with what the future may bring. He explores how innovations in food production, packaging, transportation, advertising, and retail design revolutionized how we buy our food.
Today, supermarkets offer endless choices and low prices, but behind the shelves lies a darker truth. In pursuit of efficiency, we’ve surrendered control of our food system to vast corporations, promoted global supply chains that hide labor and environmental abuses, and flooded our diets with ultra-processed foods.
Shane travels from surreal supermarket art installations to apple orchards, commercial film sets, shrimp farms, urban food co-ops, and beyond, connecting with people whose lives are intertwined with this system. What he uncovers is a complex story of the modern grocery store, the true cost of convenience, and the urgent need to reimagine the way we feed ourselves
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The speed and magnitude of the climate change we are facing today is unprecedented. Heatwaves, droughts, floods… We are feeling its effects on our daily lives, year after year. Its impacts will increase at least until 2050 and every region of Europe will be affected.
Based on the results of the latest available studies, and in particular, on the 6th IPCC report, this film, produced by scientists in the framework of the European project EUCP, aims to present to the general public the climate changes expected in Europe in 2050. The researchers explain in an accessible way the variations in temperature and precipitation as well as the extreme climate events that European inhabitants will have to face.
This film provides the keys to understand how climate will reshape our landscapes and lifestyles over the coming decades. … and to enable us to better anticipate the need for human societies to adapt to this partly inevitable climate change.
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This film is available in several languages:
🇫🇷 • Quel climat en Europe pour 2050 ?
🇪🇸 • El clima en Europa en 2050
🇭🇷 • Klima u Europi u 2050. godini
🇮🇹 • Come sarà il clima in Europa nel 2050?
🇩🇪 • Europas Klima im Jahr 2050
🇸🇪 • Video
🇬🇧 • Europe’s climate in 2050
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💻 For more information:
The European Climate Prediction System (EUCP)
👉 http://www.eucp-project.eu
The CNRS news website
👉 https://news.cnrs.fr/climate-change
IPCC-AR6, WGI
👉 https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report…
IPCC Interactive Atlas
👉 https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch
“Making climate projections conditional on historical observations”, Ribes et al. 2021
👉 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc0671
“Assessment of the European Climate Projections as Simulated by the Large EURO-CORDEX Regional and Global Climate Model Ensemble”, Coppola et al. 2021
👉 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032344 (paid access)
“Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues”, Bastin et al. 2019
👉 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone….
“The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation”, Pichelli et al. 2021
👉 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05…
📽 Scientific Director: Samuel Somot (Météo France), Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM – Météo France / CNRS)
Production: Emmanuel Somot, Yves Dorsi, https://www.vuxe.fr
Screenplay: Marina Martinez
Music: Tristan Lepagney
© CNRS, 2021
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