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Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...changes will take place without a corresponding change in the chemical structure of the material. This is why scrap thermoplastic can be re-used. In practice, some thermal and oxidative degradation occurs and recycling must be done only with an understanding of the effect that it has upon the properties of the final moulding. Thermosets can be defined as those polymers...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...changed by the time you are doing this activity...Learning from major cyber security incidents: 3 Case study 2: the TalkTalk hack - At around midday on 21 October 2015, the website of TalkTalk – a large telecommunications company and internet service provider – suddenly became unavailable. A holding page, as shown in Figure 3, stated that TalkTalk was having some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...change that, writes Alex O'Brien...In 2004, Dr Richard Ellenbogen spent almost 20 hours operating on a 17-year-old girl with a brain tumour. He ended up leaving a big piece of the tumour behind, mistaking it for normal brain tissue. Less than a year after the surgery, the cancer hit back and the young girl died. The week the girl died, Ellenbogen presented the case at his...
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Article 5 mins
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...change in their colouring was a direct result of the unusual conditions in which they existed, where there was no shade and shelter of trees and bushes, and they were perpetually exposed for generations to the full light of the wide open sky. On revisiting Stonehenge after an interval of some years I looked for my sparrows and failed to find them. It was at the...
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Article 10 mins
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...change is driven by environmental pressures, languages change and develop through social pressures. Over time, different groups of early humans would have found themselves speaking different languages. Then, in order to communicate with other groups – for trade, travel and so on – it would have been necessary for some members of a family or band to speak other...
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Article 10 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...change their cell type, but to change where they come from. So we should do research on adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells. I think that at the moment the practical barriers to reproductive cloning are so great; even though there are all these successes with animals, that the vast majority of attempts at reproductive cloning, fail somewhere in embryonic...
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Article 30 mins
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...changed. How easy is it to get environmental programmes commissioned? I definitely think that in the commissioning environment, environmental programmes are considered to be a drag, that people are not going to come and watch them, that they don’t want to be told that they’re part of the problem. And I think what we’ve striven to do over the years is to try and find...
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Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...change the note values of the melody slightly, and by doing so sort of pull the melody ahead of the bar-line at certain points so that it would sound like this. In a way perhaps a bit more lyrical than... previously, and I was thinking in terms of, if I was writing it for another instrument other than the piano, then perhaps if it was played by a solo wind instrument such...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs