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Gardens Near and Far episode 29 – Maria Luisa Park

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / August 7, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 29: spanning 34 hectares, the Maria Luisa Park, which is a mosaic of gardens, constitutes the lungs of the city of Seville. It was opened to the public in 1914. The park illustrates the landscape theories of town planner and botanist Jean Nicolas Forestier, who was convinced of the need for green spaces in cities, at the start of the 20th century. The French architect / landscape gardener arrived in Spain having spent part of his career in Morocco, where he discovered the Arab culture of gardens. He adapted this culture to Seville’s […]

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The Genius of Marie Curie

Science / 2 minutes of reading / August 6, 2019 / By HDclump

The Genius of Marie Curie – The Woman Who Lit up the World: over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing – a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. They were fascinated because she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and is still the only person to have won two Nobels in two different sciences. But while the bare bones of her scientific life, the obstacles she had to overcome, the years of painstaking

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Gardens Near and Far episode 28 – Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / August 5, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 28: The Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh was established in 1670, at the time of the British Empire’s major expeditions. At the time, botanists travelled the world collecting plants, studying them, and presenting to the public, students and plant lovers.Up until the 16th century, the plants were used in treating disease or for food. Subsequently, they were collected for classification and study, and formed the foundations of botanical science. Landscape architect Jean-Philippe Teyssier takes us on a discovery of the most beautiful gardens in France and the world. The gardeners, landscapers, horticulturalists, architects, historians

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Nadiya’s Time to Eat episode 4 – Impress in an Instant

Nadiya Hussain / 3 minutes of reading / August 5, 2019 / By HDclump

Nadiya’s Time to Eat episode 4 : entertaining can be stressful so in this episode, Nadiya shares her favourite time-saving recipes to take the stress out of impressing guests. Crisp and luxurious raspberry cheesecake croissants make a brilliant slap-up breakfast to lay on for guests at the drop of a hat, while a speedy satay chicken tray bake takes just ten minutes of your time to blow your guests away. And a fuss-free cheats trifle with creamy chia seeds, yoghurt, fresh fruit and sweet brioche oozes style, confidence and yumminess with barely any effort at all. With unsociable

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Ancient Aliens – The Alien Infection episode 9 2019

Conspiracy / 2 minutes of reading / August 3, 2019 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – The Alien Infection episode 9 2019: In 2016, scientists made the astonishing discovery that 30 percent of all protein adaptations since humans’ divergence with chimpanzees have been driven by viruses. Could ancient aliens have shaped human evolution by introducing viral epidemics on Earth? And if so, for what purpose? Are they making us more like them? Ancient Aliens is an American television series that premiered on April 20, 2010, on the History channel. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment in a documentary style, the program presents hypotheses of ancient astronauts and proposes that historical texts, archaeology, and

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Gardening Australia episode 27 2019

Gardening Australia 2019 / 3 minutes of reading / August 2, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardening Australia episode 27 2019: Tino goes behind the scenes at The Patch, Jane Edmanson visits a couple’s iconic greenhouse, Josh Byrne meets an Australian horticultural legend and we meet two inspirational floral designers. Gardening Australia has always provided practical, trustworthy and credible gardening advice to inspire and entertain. Join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they traverse the country unearthing the best gardens. Gardening Australia episode 27 2019 Home of Horticulture Costa meets some horticultural students to find out why they are pursuing a career with plants. Costa Georgiadis is at one Melbourne’s oldest Horticultural schools

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The Beechgrove Garden episode 9 2019

The Beechgrove Garden 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / August 1, 2019 / By HDclump

The Beechgrove Garden episode 9 2019: this episode sees George gardening in tiny places and huge spaces. He revisits his tiny, but hugely productive, ‘small space’ garden to see what’s ready for harvest. The Beechgrove Garden episode 9 2019 In 2017, he visited the historic but dilapidated Saughton Park to hear plans for a future facelift, and now he returns to see the extraordinary regeneration of this once-great park and how Edinburgh Council, the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society and many volunteers have created a national garden treasure for this century. Meanwhile, Chris demonstrates how pruning can be

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Dark Secrets of the Solar System

Science / 2 minutes of reading / August 1, 2019 / By HDclump

Dark Secrets of the Solar System: New evidence is rewriting the history of our solar system, and using the latest discoveries and cutting-edge tech, experts are investigating if our cosmic neighborhood once featured oversized alien Earths and a second Sun. For most of history, humanity did not recognize or understand the concept of the Solar System. Most people up to the Late Middle Ages–Renaissance believed Earth to be stationary at the centre of the universe and categorically different from the divine or ethereal objects that moved through the sky. Although the Greek philosopher Aristarchus of Samos had speculated

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Gardens Near and Far episode 27 – Inverewe

Uncategorized / 2 minutes of reading / August 1, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 27 – Inverewe: At the end of the 19th century, in the north west of the Highlands, Scottish aristocrat Osgood Mackenzie decided to create an oasis of exotic plants on his windswept land. Loch Ewe is an arm of sea, where the influence of the Gulf Stream has enabled numerous plants from Chile, Nepal and South Africa to adapt. These 25 hectares of vegetable-growing land, forest and gardens are a veritable exception in this latitude, close to that of southern Greenland. Landscape architect Jean-Philippe Teyssier takes us on a discovery of the most

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The Pacific War in Color episode 8

History / 2 minutes of reading / August 1, 2019 / By HDclump

The Pacific War in Color episode 8: By the summer of 1945, the Allies are reducing Japan to ashes, but there’s no sign of surrender. While a ground invasion seems imminent, a casualty estimate of U.S. soldiers in the hundreds of thousands leads President Truman to a decision that will not only end the war, but forever change the course of warfare. Color combat footage and witness accounts of the atomic bombings provide rare insights into the final days of the Pacific War. The Pacific War was unlike any military conflict before it in terms of its scale,

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Alien Hell Storms

Science / 2 minutes of reading / July 31, 2019 / By HDclump

Alien Hell Storms: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are homes to the deadliest storms in our solar system, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of this hellish alien weather, helping experts understand these alien worlds better than ever. Alien Hell Storms The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm, the largest in the Solar System, 22 degrees south of Jupiter’s equator. It has been continuously observed since 1830. Earlier observations from 1665 to 1713 are believed to be of the same storm; if this is correct, it

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The Pacific War in Color episode 7

History / 2 minutes of reading / July 31, 2019 / By HDclump

The Pacific War in Color episode 7: The Allies celebrate the end of the war in Europe, but the Pacific War rages on. Okinawa, the last stop in the island-hopping campaign to the Japanese mainland, is absolute havoc, with Japan sending an unprecedented wave of kamikaze attacks to destroy Allied warships. Meanwhile, Australians liberate Indonesians from three years of oppressive Japanese occupation in Borneo. Witness the final battles of the Second World War, captured with rare behind the scenes film and color combat footage. The Pacific War in Color episode 7 The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation

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