START as you mean to go on. That鈥檚 a pretty fair assessment of our first 60 years. On , this magazine鈥檚 very first edition hit the news stands, and today 快猫短视频 is still living up to its promise, made in that first issue, to inform and entertain 鈥渁ll those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery and its industrial, commercial and social consequences鈥�. In the spirit of the post-war age, we also pledged to hunt for revelations that could 鈥渉ave a direct and vital application to the happiness of us all鈥�. 快猫短视频 has diversified hugely since then, especially since the advent of the digital age, but we鈥檇 like to think we still hold true to the values we expressed at our birth.
We were certainly trying our best in 1983, when issue discussed one of the earliest projects to generate what is now called renewable energy. A barrage across the Severn estuary on the UK鈥檚 west coast could provide as much energy as a second nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk in eastern England, we explained. The barrage 鈥渨ould last 120 years, or four times as long as a pressurised water reactor鈥�. Passions were running high in the 1980s over the dangers of nuclear power (as pictured above), but our ethical enthusiasm was fruitless. Sizewell B was built; the barrage was not. But the issues thrown up are still arousing passions today, as witnessed by further arguments in favour of using tidal power in the Severn and debate over the UK government鈥檚 recent go-ahead for the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset.
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There was better news in 2002. Our 16 November issue reported that coffee may ward off diabetes 鈥� happiness on two scores. We suggested that as long as you washed down your diabetes-causing doughnuts with 鈥渁t least seven cups of coffee a day鈥�, you were only 鈥渉alf as likely to succumb鈥� to the disease. Presumably the trade-off was insomnia and high blood pressure. Perhaps that鈥檚 one of the social consequences we were envisaging back in 1956?
This article appeared in print under the headline 鈥淲hat was 快猫短视频 talking about in Novembers past?鈥�
