BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
When young chef Michael Caines lost his right arm in a car crash in August 1994, he journeyed to the USA to find the latest bionic arm to enable him to continue his career at the highest level.
In 1992 British Inventor Trevor Baylis invented a clockwork radio as a response to a need for spreading healthcare information in Africa. Traces the story of his invention from rejection to mass production...
Asthma has reached epidemic proportions in the western world and is now increasing in the developing world. Scientistsbelieve the cause may be an allergic reaction to something in the 20th-century lifestyle....
Are newspaper headlines and their stories to be believed? Recent examples include ‘British breakthrough likely to end asthma suffering’, ‘Vitamin K linked to child cancer’, and ‘Astronomers find...
Looks at a study linking foetal birth weight, the size of the placenta and the effects of maternal nutrition on foetal development. Diet during pregnancy and just before conception may even affect the health...
Looks at the new experimental treatments for neurological illnesses. A treatment for Parkinson’s disease involves tissue from the patient’s kidney being inserted into his brain. Another technique,...
Examines the idea that there are clocks in the human body which, left to themselves, would have people living a 25-hour day. Tampering with them could lead to illness or reduced fertility. Understanding body...
Looks at research into human ancestry based on information stored in the genes and passed on down through the generations. The ‘molecular clock’ theory maintains that a new people evolved in Africa and...
Examines the Dr James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis which argues that life itself actively controls the environment to enhance its own chances of survival and that the earth an all living things upon it are...
Looks at ways in which computer security can be breached and at efforts to prevent this and to preserve the privacy of electronic data. Discusses the Data Encryptation Standard (DES), used by the London...
You are currently searching in Find DVD. Search all the BUFVC's collections for '"John Groom"' in All fields.