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Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...c. roughly 300 The correct answer is c. Answer Our best estimate is around 300. Although most of the plays do not survive, lists of titles are preserved from the Byzantine era. Euripides seems more prolific than his rivals, but the figures are misleading. We possess more of his works thanks to the chance survival of a volume of plays beginning with Greek letters from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...C in many parts of the globe, including some parts of continental Europe. A second study warns that by the century’s end weather-related disasters – floods, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and windstorms – could claim a 50-fold increase in fatalities, and expose 350 million Europeans to harmful climate extremes every year. And a third study points out that climate...
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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...C, K279, was written at the age of fifteen) to two years before his death (the Sonata in D, K576, dates from 1789). Although they are less frequently performed than the late piano concertos, they still form an impressive body of work. They are more homogeneous stylistically than the piano sonatas of Haydn and less radical structurally than those of Beethoven. Most of them...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...c) viewed under a light microscope, (d) with an electron microscope. (a) and (b) show the arrangement of the milk-carrying ducts and (c) the secretory cells. (d) is an image of a single cell, showing the structures involved in the processes of secretion. The different scales show the extent of magnification. (1 mm, i.e. one millimetre, is equivalent to 1000 μm, i.e. 1000...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Resin shell casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Resin shell casting

...steel, because of the high temperature of moulding. The plate is heated to 200 - 250˚C, and is then sprayed or brushed with silicon oil, to facilitate the subsequent stripping of the shell from the pattern. The pattern plate is then placed on top of the dump box containing the sand-resin mixture. The dump box is inverted so that the pattern becomes covered by sand-resin mixture. The resin melts, and in about 30 s the pattern......
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...C D E 2 F G H I/J K 3 L M N O P 4 Q R S T U 5 V W X Y Z Jump forward a few millennia to the France of Napoleon Bonaparte who wanted his soldiers to be able to communicate silently and in the dark. This led Captain Charles Barbier de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to represent the letters (and some...
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Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...C department within that called Performance Herts. We deliver to university athletes, as well as external clubs such as Saracens Mavericks, Arsenal Ladies, Women's FC. And then on top of that, we've done workshops in S&C areas and fields, and also lecture. Today we're in the cricket hall, and we are going to be running an acceleration, speed, agility, and plyometric...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...c. 300 BC onwards, a zero symbol is found to mark empty places within numerals; but not at the end of a numeral, so the absolute value of the whole is still left ‘floating’. Question 2 Try to transcribe the Larsa tablet. Can you suggest what the cuneiform words (columns two and four) might mean? (Hint: You may find that it helps to form some initial hypothesis about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs