Written by In recogntition of the UN’s World Sustainable Transport Day, Christy VanArragon and Bruce Gulland tell the history of one of the most important inventions in history – the bicycle! Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Christy Van Arragon. Voice 2 And I’m Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier […]
England’s greatest, weirdest living author lives in a terraced house in Northampton, where he worships a snake god in the basement. Alan Moore revolutionized the comics industry in the 1980s with Swamp Thing, in which a nearly forgotten character was turned into an exploration of the United States’ environmental and historical horrors and glories, and […]
A recent study proposes that the wheel, one of the most transformative inventions in human history, could have first been developed by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains around 6,000 years ago. This theory, based on a detailed modelling study, suggests that the unique environment of these mining regions may have played a crucial role […]