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Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...everyday eating habits it is not that straightforward being a student. You have to try and eat well at breakfast, particularly; you start with a good mixture of cereals, bread and try and take a relatively high intake of protein such as chicken and fish. Training is usually in the afternoons for me personally so I try and eat maybe a banana or a sandwich about an hour...
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...everyday really helps you to get out of the of the negative moods that maybe a set back can generate. It’s also really important to seek support from mentors, for example, from your peers. I’m very fortunate. I have wonderful collaborators in the UK, US, Canada, Italy and other countries, and we all work in a very similar field. And, and so we support each other and...
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...everyday speech. For example, how often do you hear people saying that they need to lose weight? Mass and weight are not the same. Mass is a measure of the amount of ‘stuff’ you have and is measured in kg, whereas weight is a force, due to gravity, which is measured in N. This force of gravity helps the ISS to orbit the Earth in a similar way to the Moon orbiting the...
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...English Premier League football and American soaps. Taken together, these forces both unite and divide people in my home town in the English Midlands and the people of Trabzon. They make the world in some senses smaller and more similar, but in others less predictable – more unruly. Although they also bring more wealth to some people in Eastern Turkey, you didn't have...
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...English-speaking world, but to see him go out with this amazing, crusading fight on climate change has been quite tonic for me. RH: Before we just finish the politics bit, what hopes do you have of a global agreement on climate change in Paris? And do you think that our focus on those big global agreements is helpful, or do you think there are other factors at play now?...
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...English in 1906 - Tolstoy suggests King Lear shows Shakespeare up as something of a hack...Altho I know that the majority of people so firmly believe in the greatness of Shakespeare that in reading this judgment of mine they will not admit even the possibility of its justice, and will not give it the slightest attention, nevertheless I will endeavor, as well as I can, to...
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...English is (relatively!) more understandable. I found a stone, (but) did not weigh it; (after) I subtracted one-seventh, added one-eleventh, (and) subtracted one-thir[teenth], I weighed (it): 1 ma-na. What was the origin(al weight) of the stone? [The origin(al weight)] of the stone was 1 ma-na, 9½ gin, (and) 2½ se. This tablet contained 22 such problems-and-answers,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...English Channel] Figure 28 Gossamer Albatross. The first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel A further prize of £100,000 was offered by the Man-Powered Flight subcommittee of the Royal Aeronautical Society for the first human-powered flight across the English Channel to France. MacCready returned in 1979 and landed that prize with Gossamer Albatross...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs