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Eleanor Maguire discusses her seminal study Navigation-Related Structural Changes in the Hippocampus of Taxi Drivers, looking at its context and aims, groundbreaking methods, surprising findings and what...
Electronic charts offer many benefits to navigation but there is still considerable confusion surrounding the different systems available and their acceptability as the means of primary navigation. This...
Reflects on the momentous voyages of Portuguese navigators in the 15th century. Uses a full-scale replica of a caravel of the period to re-create the conditions of those voyages and shows how sailors used...
Concerns the clash of two cultures and two technologies. The technology is navigation, traditional and Western, and the cultures are Satawal, one of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia, and the United States....
Safe navigation corridors through Arctic waters are necessary if Canada is to exploit and transport Arctic oil and gas reserves in the coming decade. Looks at the work of the research ship ‘CSS Hudson’...
During the 17th century many advances in practical and instrumental navigation took place. These were aided by other scientific developments, and in turn navigational requirement gave impetus to developments...
Examines the relationship between the pilot and the aircraft, and the effects of the introduction of electronics.
Shows the operation of the Channel Navigation Information Service (CNIS) and the role of the sponsor in providing scientific and technical support, particularly in the radar recording of ship traffic...
Defines ‘navigation’ and shows how man developed methods of homing and how to determine latitude and longitude, using dead reckoning. Following Faraday’s discovery of electro-magnetic induction came...
Part 1: Animated film shows the uses of astronomy in field surveys and the effects of the relative motions of the earth, sun and stars. Part 2: Animated film illustrates the geographical and celestial...
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