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Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...account for how electromagnetic radiation crosses the empty space from the Sun and stars to the Earth and beyond. On encountering matter, radiation is transmitted, absorbed and scattered to varying degrees, depending on the chemical and physical nature of the matter. For example, the visible radiation in sunlight is certainly transmitted through panes of window glass, but...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...account for the ratio of the phenotypes. In fact this is an example of mathematical modelling; the mechanism of inheritance is regarded as equivalent to a mathematical process whose consequence can be calculated by the well-established laws of chance and probability. In the next two questions you are asked to predict the results of some different sorts of crosses using...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...account of new ones. Session 3 Rule 7: reduce your list The first two sessions were concerned with expansion, this one concentrates on contraction. The aim is to carry forward two or three ideas that are worth further detailed work and consideration...Introducing research in law and beyond: 2.3 Scan - Scanning material such as journals, organisation documents and web...
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...account of her childhood through her family’s sayings and phrases, and the play Ti ho sposato per allegria (1965). Ginzburg wrote about her personal experiences in a fictionalised form and many of her works are based on memories of her childhood and youth in Turin. She died on 7 October 1991. First of all, you can do some vocabulary work to prepare you for the reading...
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...accounts for observations or facts. It can be tested by making further observations and then can be modified in the light of new evidence or observations. Suppose that your hypothesis is that the wildebeest migrate to escape from their predators. Other work has shown that there are around 3000 lions and 9000 spotted hyenas living in the Serengeti and preying on herbivores...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...accounts of life from a woman’s perspective. However, there is often a tension between connections in the lyrics to lived lives and contexts on one hand and an element of imagining and invention on the other. ‘Hangman’s blues’ is a case in point as the narrative implies personal experience, but it is clearly imagined as the singer is not dead but telling the tale....
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...account form, fit and function, including aesthetics and ergonomics. Other contributing factors to be considered when designing are related to innovation, market forces and costings, to name but three. * Die: Another word for a mould or casting. Also used to describe the metal block used in ‘punch and die’ forming of sheet metal. * Drawn: A description of something...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...account) As it happens, δένδρον is used as a stand-alone word in English, although characteristically it is used in a technical sense: a dendron, or dendrite, is a ‘short, branched, thread-like extension of a nerve-cell’. Let us begin with some words that have been incorporated into English almost to the letter. Activity 1 English derivations from Greek (1)...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs