As a 10-year-old ’space geek’, Paul Rodgers was glued to the television when Neil Armstrong uttered the immortal words, ‘The Eagle has landed.’ Forty years on, he looks back at mankind’s giant leap – and the Cold War politics that turned the space race into a mad dash
The first sign of trouble came when the [...]
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‘The Eagle has landed’: A space geek remembers the moon shot
5 July, 2009 – 00:00
Fantastic voyage: new-generation imaging heralds revolution in medical treatment
8 February, 2009 – 00:00
From a cluster of Chiltern villages, GE Healthcare is leading the way in detecting and treating diseases
For the lucky, a check-up at the GP consists of nothing more sophisticated than a blood-pressure cuff, an icy stethoscope and a jar to pee in. For those with bigger problems, it can involve medicine’s heavy artillery, from bedside [...]
It took 20-20 vision to see nothing sells like specs
3 August, 2008 – 00:00
Dame Mary Perkins tells how special deals and stylish frames have made Specsavers an unlikely high-street star
Dame Mary Perkins adamantly denies she’s the Imelda Marcos of spectacles. Unlike the former first lady of the Philippines, who had 1,060 pairs of shoes in her wardrobe by the time her husband was deposed, Dame Mary insists she [...]
The beating heart of the hi-tech world in hospitals
1 June, 2008 – 00:00
The computerisation of the NHS is not on its sickbed – it’s alive and kicking, explains the boss of GE Healthcare
Nigel Mason is apologetic when he arrives at GE’s British head office in Berkeley Square, central London. This isn’t his building, explains the boss of GE Healthcare UK as we wait for security to sign [...]
Now that’s reality TV: Samsung takes us into the next dimension
13 April, 2008 – 00:00
The Korean giant is going back to the future to create 3D vision that will propel golf balls from your screen
‘Fore!” When Tiger Woods smashes the ball straight for their heads, most people flinch – some duck – until the point-of-view pulls back to show trees hurtling past along the fairway. The simulacrum of the [...]
Bill Gates: The hi-tech future is now
6 January, 2008 – 00:00
It’s notoriously difficult to predict trends, as Bill Gates has discovered to his cost. But, as the Microsoft boss opens the Consumer Electronics Show, what should we be looking out for?
Gannon and Gage Swanston are already pioneers of the 21st-century media era at the tender ages of seven and four. When they visit friends’ homes, [...]
The saint factory: More and more go marching in
8 April, 2007 – 10:51
As moves to canonise Pope John Paul II accelerate, questions are being asked about the alacrity with which the Vatican hands out the halos
Being saintly is never easy. In the early days of Christianity, the holy faced persecution by the superpower of the day and were likely to be killed in imaginative ways: fed to [...]
Welcome to my dream
10 March, 1995 – 10:55
A GAUNT, melancholy character clad in black, Morpheus, Prince of Sleep, strides through the realm of dreams with eyes like deep-set stars. Sometimes they are twinkling con-stellations, at others smouldering red dwarves or bottomless black holes.
“I dreamt I was the Sandman once,” says Neil Gaiman, Britain’s best-selling adult comic book author and creator of Morpheus. [...]
