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Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...research base, situated at the geomagnetic south pole in Antarctica. Samples of ice and the gases and other trace materials trapped within it provide a valuable and continuous record of climate changes and large volcanic eruptions during the past 400 000 years. Incidentally, viable micro-organisms were found entombed within the ancient ice too. It was not until 1994, by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...researching a particular author. A useful question to begin with is what did he (or, rarely, she) write and how much has survived? The answer might be sobering. Try the following question. Activity 2 Select the answer for Activity 2 here Of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights, we possess 7 complete plays by Aeschylus, 7 by Sophocles and 19 by Euripides. How many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...research/sri/Hubacek_Complexity_Economics_Seminar_2 pdf (Accessed 1 March 2016). IPCC (2015) ‘Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers’, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva [Online]. Available at www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/ (Accessed 1 April 2016). Marshall, G. (2014) Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...research and awareness. Despite this, they did not attract as much public support (in the form of financial giving) as the repair and restoration of a cathedral. Many commentators saw this as unacceptable, revealing a serious moral flaw in our society. Although individuals had donated money to a good cause, the higher degree of concern shown for Notre-Dame compared with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...research opportunities to find out more. Finally the session closed by considering some of the human factors involved in risk assessment. The main learning points that have been covered in this session are: the process of arriving at an ‘assessment value’ for the risk – scores and Probability and Impact Diagrams (PIDs) (gross, current, residual) how to assess risk...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...researcher and businessman. Far from considering himself the witless victim of artistic delirium, Delacroix was, by the mid-1820s, an accomplished socialite – a regular attender at Parisian salons, acquiring expertise in the kind of self-publicity that would flourish later in his career. He assumed the role and appearance of an English dandy, undemonstrative and...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...researching imperial history. (23 minute read) Radhika Natarajan is Assistant Professor at Reed College, USA and specialises in Modern Imperial Britain. She has written a blog about her approach to teaching empire. (17 minute read) You could make a note of your ideas in the box below...Session 1: Understanding empire: 2 Archives: the records of power? - Anthropologist and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...researchers for this name! The photoreceptor studied by them is called R7, and the gene for the tyrosine kinase receptor involved in photoreceptor development is called ‘sevenless’ (because sevenless mutants lack R7 photoreceptors). The GEF was discovered to be downstream of the receptor, and so its gene was called son of sevenless. Because Sos is recruited to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs