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If television were the real world, no one would want to live in the global homicide hotspot of Midsomer. Every woman, though, would beg to be a patient at Nonnatus House clinic in Poplar, East London, because the standard of healthcare is so extraordinary.
So far in season 10 of Call the Midwife, which concludes on Sunday, Dr Patrick Turner (Stephen McGann) and his team of midwives have diagnosed a case of gestational diabetes, a condition little understood at the dramatised time of 1966, and a very rare enzyme disorder, phenylketonuria.
Two exceptional illnesses in a few weeks were unlikely to worry personnel who have previously identified the uncommon genetic disorders osteogenesis imperfecta (season four) and achondroplasia (six), and encountered mothers suffering from leprosy (seven) and puerperal, or postpartum, psychosis (three). Even more impressively, Turner and his team spotted these problems by simple observation, without the pi
Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás
Beginning in the late 1860s, the decade that it took to construct the Suez Canal, photographs depicting its feats of engineering circulated across the world. Sold to travelers as souvenirs, featured in
Le Monde, and later exhibited at the 1889 Paris world fair, they enshrined on paper the industrial monumentality of the dredgers that excavated earth into sea.
The Ever Given provided a rare glimpse into global markets, whose workings are typically invisible dissolved in the abstract, numerical, quasi-magical relations of capital flows.
As publicized images of the machinic wonders of modernity, they also served as promissory notes, enticing investors to purchase shares in the joint-stock Suez Canal Company. The photographs telegraphed seductive promises of financial gain, pictorializing the genius of European engineering that could dig a manmade channel across the African continent. Running through the pictures, historian Mohamed Gamal-Eldin disc
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A sticky, poisonous blob of tar (Revital Goldschmidt)
The first little black blob in the sand I saw was about the size of a shekel. I reached down to poke it to determine whether it was tar or just a rock. It was soft. Tar. Within a minute, the sticky residue that remained on my rubber-gloved index-finger spread to the adjoining fingers and palm of my hand. The image of the young, dead sea turtle we were shown by the clean-up organizers minutes earlier resonated. What a gruesome death it must have been to be swimming across the open Mediterranean Sea, only to swim into successive floating globules of that black sticky gunk. Sticking to its fins, clogging its airway, burning its sk
Australia Mar 1, 2019
An environmental disaster is unfolding in the Pacific after a large ship ran aground and began leaking oil next to a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Solomon Islands, Australian officials said Friday. Footage taken this week shows little progress has been made in stopping the Solomon Trader ship from leaking oil since it ran aground Feb. 5, according to. California Apr 20, 2018
An acrid stink of petroleum sent Santa Barbara County firefighters scrambling three years ago in a search of a possible spill. When they arrived at Refugio State Beach, oil was staining the pristine sands and seeping into the surf. Uphill they discovered oil gushing like a fire hose “without a nozzle.”