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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809 – 1882)

9 Comments CherryPie on Aug 31st 2014

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Human Biology

One of the exhibits in the Human Biology section of the the Natural History Museum is this eight times lifesize model of a seven month old baby living with in its mother’s uterus. The baby will soon turn over so it’s head faces downwards ready for birth.
The sound of a mother’s heartbeat as heard from [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 30th 2014

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The Blue Whale Hall

I remember being rather disappointed with the Natural History Museum on my first visit there on a school trip. There were lots of tired looking stuffed animals that didn’t capture my imagination. There was however one part of the museum that blew me away and that was the museum’s Whale Hall. At the time it [...]

13 Comments CherryPie on Aug 29th 2014

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Space Junk

Thousands of pieces of debris are orbiting the Earth, travelling at over 27,000 km/h.1 This space junk can collide with and destroy essential satellites, knocking out communications – and in turn creating even more junk. As the layer of junk gets thicker, it’s becoming more dangerous to launch satellites and send astronauts into space. Our lifestyle depends on satellites in orbit, [...]

15 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2014

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Journey to the Moon

One of the exhibits in the London Science Museum is the command module from Apollo 10. It is quite fascinating to see it in person rather than in black and white on a television screen. The scorch marks caused when re-entering the earth’s atmosphere are distinctly visible.

Apollo 10, carrying astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2014

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