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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...circulating through volcanic rocks in Iceland. Once the fluids cool below a certain temperature, minerals are precipitated. Similar environments might have existed on Mars, which is why we used this area as an analogue site. I’m also interested in how fluids are recycled on planets like Mars that don’t have tectonic activity, as we do on Earth. Mars used to be...
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Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...circulation. Radiotherapy uses radiation to damage cancer cells and, unfortunately, surrounding cells might be damaged as well. If cancer patients are being given a focused radiotherapy treatment that avoids the bones, it is very unlikely this will affect their immune system. However, if the cancer is located near or within the bones, the immune system could be...
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Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...circulation and was delivered to the Westminster Parliament. This was followed by a demand by five engineering unions to employers on 21 December 1955, for equal pay for women workers (Daily Telegraph, 1955). According to press reports the women organised a 2,000-strong demonstration and marched to Glasgow Green in support of their demands (Daily Worker, 1955)....
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...circulate through the media. To take one example, The Lion King film is famous for its song ‘Circle of Life’. The circle of life is also a crucial ideological message in the film: Simba’s father Mufasa legitimates ‘meat-eating’ for the young lion, and vicariously for the young audience, with reference to it as a natural inevitability, soothing Simba’s...
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The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...circulating in your blood. Strangely, a side benefit to fighting stress with exercise is you'll improve your fitness - an ideal antidote to modern living. So my advice is, if you have a stressful life - take more exercise with it! [Zeron overcomes his fear of snakes] So what is fear and why do we react that way? I hope you've now got a better idea how your body and brain...
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...circulate these images. Ghastly images and sensational reporting of wildlife conflict is a serious problem in a place like Gudalur, where people and wild animals have always lived alongside each other. Tigers are largely wary of and avoid people and are rarely encountered. When every incident from around the country is sensationalised, people’s ideas of wild animals are...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...circulated in Europe for more than thirty years (see e.g. Hoehn and Szymanski (1999)). Widespread public protests and the threat of intervention by football governing bodies and national governments led to the plan being abandoned within two days. Nonetheless, the proposal was based on a clearly profitable financial plan, coming at a time when many clubs are under greater...
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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...circulating glucose similar to those that support strenuous activity. The tenfold increase in the concentrations of β-hydroxybutyrate is small compared to changes of up to 40-fold observed in the blood of pigeons, poultry and humans after just a few days of starvation. When artificially prevented from returning to the sea at the end of their normal fast, plasma fatty...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs