"In a Oct, 2014 interview to The Guardian, Prof. Peter Piot said the following. What's the missing word? ""In 1976 I discovered ... - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy."""
"de l’INSERM (2015), the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (2015), and the Manson Medal (2016). In 2016, he was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the United Kingdom. Peter Piot Peter Karel, Baron Piot, KCMG, FRCP, FMedSci (born 1949) is a Belgian microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS. After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS. He has held key positions in the United Nations and World Health"
"London, UK and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is the author of 16 books and over 550 scientific articles, and is fluent in English, French, and Dutch. In 2014, in the face of an unprecedented Ebola epidemic in western Africa, Piot and other scientists called for the emergency release of the experimental ZMapp vaccine for use on humans before it had undergone clinical testing on humans. He chaired an independent panel convened by Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine into the national and international response to the epidemic, which"
"way to get to the bottom of this is a thorough public inquiry."" In July 2014, Norman Tebbit, who had held a variety of ministerial posts in the 1980s, when asked if there had been a ""big political cover-up"", said that ""there may well have been"", describing it as ""...almost unconscious. It was the thing that people did at that time."" Tebbit also spoke of the political atmosphere of the time, saying that ""At that time I think most people would have thought that the establishment, the system, was to be protected and if a few things had gone wrong"
"praising the NHS for their quick and decisive action. In a May 2014 interview, he talked about discovering he had been suffering with a form of cardiac arrhythmia for more than 40 years: ""The suspicion I had a heart problem caused me to puzzle over earlier incidents in my life,"" he said, reflecting on his RAF jet fighter crash in 1954. ""I suspect that, that morning, stressed from the previous day and having had little sleep, I lost consciousness on that take-off run."" Tebbit was interviewed about the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series ""Tory! Tory!"
"the anonymous """" (1663): Diarist George Templeton Strong wrote (volume 4, p.122) of a hazardous sudden breaking up of pedestrian-bearing ice in New York City's East River during the winter of 1867 that ""The ice flashed into fragments all at once like a Prince Rupert's drop."" Sigmund Freud, discussing the dissolution of military groups in ""Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego"" (1921), notes the panic that results from the loss of the leader: ""The group vanishes in dust, like a Prince Rupert's drop when its tail is broken off."" In the 1940 detective novel ""There Came Both Mist"
"groups and the press. For example, Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, wrote how increasing use of pejorative terms like ""catastrophic"", ""chaotic"" and ""irreversible"", had altered the public discourse around climate change: ""This discourse is now characterised by phrases such as 'climate change is worse than we thought', that we are approaching 'irreversible tipping in the Earth's climate', and that we are 'at the point of no return'. I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and"
"30, 1976, and their families in Moscow; and the comparison group was individuals in other selected Eastern European embassies during the identical timeframe, and their families. The results of this study were never officially released to the public. After the news of the Moscow Signal broke to the public, many Americans began to become afraid of the ""invisible threat"", something they could not see but could kill them. Author Paul Brodeur first warned Americans of the danger of ""invisible threats"" in the form of a list of environmental hazards to human life, which included detergent enzymes, cancer-causing asbestos fibers and"
"this time English scientists took note of what he referred to as ""anomalous water"". English scientists then started researching the effect as well, and by 1968 it was also under study in the United States. By 1969, the concept had spread to newspapers and magazines. There was fear by the United States military that there was a so-called ""polywater gap"" with the Soviet Union, a popular media term indicating a possible capability ""gap"", or discrepancy, between the US and the USSR, popularized by media hype of the ""bomber gap"", the ""missile gap"", and the ""cruiser gap"", during periods when the"
"was widely misinterpreted as a positive perspective in regard to the near future. Pat somewhat clarified the meaning by stating that it was, contrary to popular belief, a ""grim"" outlook. While not saying so directly, he hinted at the idea that the bright future was in fact due to impending nuclear holocaust. The ""job waiting"" after graduation signified the demand for nuclear scientists to facilitate such events. Pat drew upon the multitude of past predictions which transcend several cultures that foreshadow the world ending in the 1980s, along with the nuclear tension at the height of the Cold War to"
"of paper more than seven times with the hydraulic press. The paper explosively collapsed into a brittle, stone-like material at the seventh fold. Thomas Amidon, a paper engineering professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, speculated in an interview with ""Popular Science"" that the cause of the explosion might have been the collapse of calcium carbonate within the paper, which had provided it with stiffness and opacity. Despite its dormancy, the channel received widespread attention in March 2016 after the paper video was submitted to the social news website Reddit and subsequently received"
"theory. He married Lynn in Oxford on 20 January 1979 and the couple had one son, Will. He lost the battle against stomach cancer on 23 July 2017, at the age of 70. One of the most controversial and complex theories was put forward by Robin Gardiner in his book, ""Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?"". In it, Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the ""Titanic"", and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact ""Titanic""s sister ship , disguised as ""Titanic"", as an"
"both severe and sustained."" There was significant criticism of the World Health Organization from some aid agencies because its response was perceived as slow and insufficient, especially during the early stages of the outbreak. In October 2014, the Associated Press reported in an internal draft document that the WHO admitted ""nearly everyone"" involved in the Ebola response failed to notice factors that turned the outbreak into the largest on record, and that they had missed chances to stop the spread of Ebola due to ""incompetent staff, bureaucracy and a lack of reliable information"". Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus,"
"change since the late 1980s. In 2008, Hulme made a personal statement on what he called the ""5 lessons of climate change"", as: After the Climatic Research Unit email controversy, he wrote an article for the BBC in which he said: In another article for the BBC, in November 2006, he warned against the dangers of using alarmist language when communicating climate change science. Mike Hulme is one of the authors of the Hartwell Paper, published by the London School of Economics in collaboration with the University of Oxford in May 2010. The authors argued that, after what they regard"
"there were one or two other survivors who made themselves scarce. They took their opportunity.'"" Peter Stoddart died on 4 July 1988 following a stroke. On 16 May 2015, the BBC reported Colonel Robert Watson, a senior retired army officer who had served with the Royal Scots, saying that he believed that some soldiers were ""probably"" shot in mercy killings. The BBC said that while no official army records of the alleged shooting existed, ""many reports written in the press at the time of the accident suggested that some trapped soldiers, threatened with the prospect of being burnt alive in"
"halt transmission have also included the multiple disease outbreaks across country borders. Dr Peter Piot, the scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus, stated that the outbreak was not following its usual linear patterns as mapped out in earlier outbreaks—this time the virus was ""hopping"" all over the West African epidemic region. Furthermore, past epidemics had occurred in remote regions, but this outbreak spread to large urban areas, which had increased the number of contacts an infected person might have and made transmission harder to track and break. On 9 December, a study indicated that a single individual introduced the virus"
"inquiry, earning him vociferous hostility from both the victims' families and widespread criticism from the media. Clothier reasoned that people were capable of telling blatant lies under oath. In the absence of friends, colleagues, parents and the press, witnesses could speak with """"a frankness which can be startling"""". Clothier continued that """"if you really want to know what people are thinking in an extremely delicate matter, you need to see them in circumstances when they do not feel threatened""."" Clothier was asked about the similar case of Dr Harold Shipman in 2000 and explained that few people could be found"
"(controlled by, but more lax than, the Oxford English Dictionary) added ""hangry"" on 27 August 2015, and the full Oxford English Dictionary added ""hangry"" in 2018. There are anecdotal reports of various forms of the puzzle dating to the 1950s or earlier; the ultimate origin is presumably an oral tradition or a lost book of puzzles. However, the first documented evidence is from early 1975 in the New York metropolitan area, and the puzzle rapidly gained popularity in this year. The most likely source is the talk show of Bob Grant, from some program in early or mid March 1975."
"was the key note speaker at the Institute of Graduate Studies Geneva to explain the dimensions and consequences of terrorism’s global character. In 2014 an International Workshop in Madrid was arranged to consider the significance of the Third Wave concept. Rapoport was asked to assess and elaborate the argument he made in 1999, and those reflections became the basis for the book produced. Subsequent essays generally elaborate or clarify matters which the wave articles suggest but do not discuss fully. Contemporary analysts rarely discuss groups before the invention of dynamite. “Before the Bombs There Were the Mobs: American Experiences with"
"feel after one establishment cover-up, here was another."" There was massive criticism of the Stuart-Smith inquiry, including outrage after the judge quipped during a meeting with families: “Have you got a few of your people or are they like the Liverpool fans, turn up at the last minute?” Criminologist Professor Phil Scraton has remained highly critical of the Stuart-Smith scrutiny, describing it as a ""debacle"". Speaking in October 2012, Scraton said the findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel – which disclosed that 41 of the 96 who died had the potential to survive had there been a more effective response"
"London's Sunday Telegraph, were later compiled in a publication entitled ""Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations"". During a debate at the Oxford Union in 2005, Peiser stated, ""The lack of a balanced approach to the issue of global warming has led to an extremely one-sided and alarmist perception of risk... Climate alarmists habitually ignore the potential economic and health benefits of warming temperatures. While magnifying the probable risks to health and mortality as a result of warmer temperatures, many underrate or simply discount the possible health benefits of moderate warming."" In an interview in Local Transport Today in 2006, Peiser"
"to kill an AAIB official involved in the investigation into the accident. In April 2011, the pilot was found guilty of making death threats. The judge said that the defendant was ""clearly extremely disturbed"" at the time the offences happened, adding ""He is a man who does need help. If I can find a way of giving him help I will."" UKIP forgot to put their party name on their candidate's ballot paper for the London mayoral election, 2012, Laurence Webb appearing as ""a fresh choice for London"". Farage described the mistake as an internal error. Interviewed the following Sunday"
"was being produced, and that they were also targeting the same information at television: ""Protect and Survive"" was formally published in May 1980, but had come to the public's attention before that via a series of articles in ""The Times"" newspaper in January 1980. This wave of interest had been preceded by numerous letters to ""The Times"" in December 1979 questioning what Civil Defence arrangements were in place in the UK. This was then followed by a ""Times"" leader on 19 January 1980 which noted that: ""In Britain, a Home Office booklet ""Protect and Survive"" remains unavailable."" Following this unexpected"
"itself. I think it tends to say too much for what it can do and it tends not to publicise the negative or the weaker aspects."" Professors Morrison and Goldstein expressed dismay at the OECD's response to criticism. Morrison said that when he first published his criticisms of PISA in 2004 and also personally queried several of the OECD's ""senior people"" about them, his points were met with ""absolute silence"" and have yet to be addressed. ""I was amazed at how unforthcoming they were,"" he told TES. ""That makes me suspicious."" ""Pisa steadfastly ignored many of these issues,"" he says."
"anxiety of the 1950s about potential climate change. Until the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), atmospheric nuclear weapons testing was used widely and recklessly. Rob Craig suggests that the months of constant storms could be inspired by the Genesis flood narrative. In the context of the film, the strange weather is implied to be a side-effect of the experiments of Vornoff which apparently release radioactivity into the atmosphere. The dialogue of the film includes memorable lines such as """"Home? I have no home!"""" and """"One is always considered mad, when one discovers something which others cannot grasp"""", as well"
"changed the face of Britain dramatically."" In January 2014, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, after being told during an interview that a statement just read to him had come from Powell's speech, said: ""Well what he was warning about was the large influx of people into an area, that change an area beyond recognition, there is tension – the basic principle is right."" In June of that year, in response to an Islamist plot to infiltrate schools in Birmingham, Conservative peer and former minister Norman Tebbit wrote in ""The Daily Telegraph"", ""No one should have been surprised at what"
"George Monbiot ascribed to Paterson ""the worst environment secretary this country has ever suffered"". Paterson praises Britain’s shale gas reserves as “one unexpected and potentially huge windfall.” ""The Guardian"" reported in December 2014 that Paterson had spoken the previous October at a meeting of the London Swinton Group, which opposes non-white immigration and calls for the return of capital punishment. In a searing critique of Paterson, the """"i"""" journalist Ian Birrell wrote that Paterson ""was hailed by some on the right as a future leader before his bumbling incompetence and climate-change scepticism became too blatant to ignore and he was"
"also a short LGBT world history, dedicated to his husband. In 2016 he gave the Oxford University annual LGBT History Month lecture on this, which was podcast: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/great-unrecorded-history-lgbt-heritage-and-world-cultures. In 2004 he collaborated in a translation of Beatrix Potter's ""The Tale of Peter Rabbit"" into hieroglyphs. Parkinson was awarded an honorary doctorate from the New Bulgarian University, Sofia in 2006 for his contributions to Egyptology. Parkinson is openly gay. He entered into a civil partnership with Timothy Griffiths Reid in 2005, and they married in 2014. Parkinson has type 1 diabetes and has spoken about the difficulties of this condition. Richard"
"of 8 August 1974, caused chaos and confusion in the BBC Newsroom. It read: ""BBC newsman Paul Morris has been killed in a minefield explosion in Cyprus."" In fact, Morris was critically wounded. It was a BBC TV News colleague and sound recordist, Ted Stoddard, who had been killed and six other British and American journalists injured when five anti-personnel mines exploded. Morris came close to death after shrapnel hit him in the chest, collapsing a lung, shattering ribs and paralysing his left arm. After spending months in hospital, and with his arm permanently disabled, he returned to work a"
"and putting the ill and those who had come into contact with them into quarantine. The epidemic was stopped in three months, after it had killed almost 300 people. The events were dramatised by Mike Walker on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014 in a production by David Morley. Dr Piot narrated the programme. In the 1980s, Dr. Piot participated in a series of collaborative projects in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zaire. Project SIDA in Kinshasa, Zaire was the first international project on AIDS in Africa and is widely acknowledged as having provided the foundations of science's understanding"
"and 1960s, the Science Service associated the term with fear of gamma radiation and the medical use of x-rays. A Science Service article published in several American newspapers proposed that ""radiophobia"" could be attributed to the publication of information regarding the ""genetic hazards"" of exposure to ionising radiation by the National Academy of Sciences in 1956. In a newspaper column published in 1970, Dr Harold Pettit MD wrote:""A healthy respect for the hazards of radiation is desirable. When atomic testing began in the early fifties, these hazards were grossly exaggerated, producing a new psychological disorder which has been called ""radiophobia"""
"was enormous as a result of the strike. In 2011, Tebbit criticised the Conservative-led coalition government's proposed reforms to the National Health Service. In June 2014, in response to an Islamist plot to infiltrate schools in Birmingham, Tebbit wrote in ""The Daily Telegraph"", ""No one should have been surprised at what was going on in schools in Birmingham. It is precisely what I was talking about over 20 years ago and Enoch Powell was warning against long before that. We have imported far too many immigrants who have come here not to live in our society, but to replicate here"
"in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, was killed in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was blown up by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Cubbon's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke, was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured. He died of a heart attack on 20 May 2015 at the age of 87. Brian Cubbon Sir Brian Crossland Cubbon GCB (9 April 1928 – 20 May 2015) was a British senior civil servant and a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission. Cubbon was educated"
"it's easier for me, as a single man, to say ""I don't like children"" because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt... How do they know whether I am [a paedophile] or not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I'm not."" A follow-up documentary, ""Louis Theroux: Savile"", about Theroux's inability to detect Savile's true nature, aired on BBC Two in 2016. Broadcaster and journalist Orla Barry, on the Irish radio station Newstalk in 2007, asked Savile about allegations aired during the original Theroux documentary. When asked"