The Send Your Name to Mars Campaign attracted 11 million respondents from around the world. Their names were stencilled by electronic beam onto 15 millimetre-sized silicon chips, along with 155 finalists’ essays from the Name the Rover contest. The chips were then attached to a metal plate becoming part of the actual space vehicle. Fagg has been fascinated with the universe and beyond since he was a child and can’t wait to see the landing. His enthusiasm for the project is because it is the first purpose built, car size, rover to look for ancient microbial signs of life and take samples from the surface, which will be brought back to earth through a future project, he said.
“I don’t put off going to bed, more going to sleep,” says Shirley , 37, a researcher and administrator from South Wales. “I should go to sleep well before midnight to start work at 8 or 9 the following day. But I usually settle down into bed with the light off about 1am. My current sleep time is 3 or 4am.”
Much is written about the importance of getting a good night’s sleep, having a consistent bedtime and setting a morning alarm. Science tells us regular sleep patterns lead to longer lives, lower our chance of developing Alzheimer’s, and, anecdotally, we know that it makes us feel better. So why do so many of us sabotage our sleep by staying up later than we should?
LOCAL historian DR PAUL JENNINGS looks back at the drama society at Lister’s Mill - part of the immense range of social, cultural and sporting activities its thousands of workers enjoyed: The Dramatic Society made its debut in 1925 with Raffles but I begin with its 1933 production of A Lass from Lister’s, written by Herbert Wright and produced by Clara Wright. This musical comedy was largely based on the rise to fame of Pat Paterson, the Hollywood actress who was born in Bradford and had once worked in the Velvet Warehouse. The same Lister’s Magazine of January 1934, which reported on the production, also carried a photograph of her en-route for Hollywood with the actor Hugh Williams. Born Eliza Paterson in Fitzgerald Street off Manchester Road, she graduated from child acting and modelling work to films and so to Hollywood, where she enjoyed a modest career in B-movies like Charlie Chan Goes to Egypt and Bottoms Up with Spencer Tracy, in which she sang I’m Throwing My L