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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...System. For this reason, the discovery of water is the primary goal of many space missions. Despite being 55 million kilometres from Earth, Mars (Figure 1b) can often be spotted with the naked eye in the night sky as a reddish-orange object (Figure 2). It has been observed throughout human history, with the earliest record dating back to ancient Egypt, and for this reason...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...think there was ever such a fairy-land for children. I am sure they must have contained one of the finest collections of musical-boxes to be found anywhere in the world. There were big black ebony boxes with glass tops through which you could see all the works. There was a big box with a handle, which it was quite hard exercise for a little girl to turn, and there must...
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...think about how artists have depicted summer over the centuries. Before the modern era, people’s sense of the different times of year was really shaped by the cycle of nature, so for them summer meant the fruits and flowers that the earth produces at this season, as you can see from this bizarre figure personifying summer by the 16th century Italian artist Giovanni...
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...think about the assumptions you make in your calculations and possible sources of experimental uncertainty. Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the properties of Coulomb’s law and electrostatic force determine the force exerted on one stationary charge by another using Coulomb’s law explain some of the uncertainties and errors...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...think can be learned from the predictions of Bessel, Le Verrier and Adams in the nineteenth century? b.What do the paper’s authors think can be learned from the history of particle physics? c.Do the authors think there is strong evidence that a paradigm shift to a new cosmological model is needed? Discussion a.It was observed that the orbit of Uranus appeared...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...system exhibits a degree of social openness, in which there are opportunities for upper-level white-collar workers. In the French system the validation of merits before entering work is the result either of inheritance or of academic achievement; in Germany the authority of the business head has to be legitimated all along, hence the importance of ongoing education and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...systems, information has become the life blood of the modern world. Given its importance, modern organisations aren’t always as careful as they could be with it. Whether it’s their customer details, details of their business transactions or their intellectual property, information is – almost casually – shared when it shouldn’t be. In this free course,...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...systemic factors such as regional power dynamics. “The risk of climate change demands a similarly holistic assessment,” she says. Value human life She concludes: “How much do we care about the effects of climate change? How important is it that we act to avoid them? What probability of their occurrence can we tolerate?…The answers to these questions depend in part...