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Small Data: Summer petrol prices
Money & Business

Small Data: Summer petrol prices

...Energy And Climate Change's weekly petrol price dataset. The price per litre is drawn from the survey on August 1st, or the one immediately prior to August 1st, for each year. Year Price pence per litre Fuel duty pence per litre VAT rate % VAT pence per litre Fuel w/o tax or duty 2003 75.1 45.82 17.5 13.14 16.14 2004 80.87 47.1 17.5 14.15 19.62 2005 89.25 47.1 17.5 15.62...
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Article 5 mins
A January detox to kick-start your year
Health, Sports & Psychology

A January detox to kick-start your year

...energy Better skin Weight loss If going vegan feels too drastic then why not try #meatfreemondays instead? An easier alternative that could become a permanent lifestyle change. To learn about your diet and health and how these are connected, below are some, articles, quizzes and courses designed to make you think about why you eat what you eat. Looking for more...
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Nouvelles mises au point
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Nouvelles mises au point

...energy.. Exhibitions: Presenting abstract concepts How the museum tackles displaying abstract scientific concepts and shows the unshowable. Exhibitions: Packaging A look at the museum's temporary exhibition on packaging: why the subject was chosen, how the display is created. An interactive experience Conclusions about the importance of interactivity and what the museum's...
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Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...energy requirements. Insect eaters have diverse ways of catching and dealing with their prey; teeth play a crucial role. Indeed, teeth are of such enormous significance to mammalian diets in general (and are so readily preserved by fossilisation) that they feature extensively in this series of units as a whole. A general introduction to teeth is useful at this point....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...energy reserve from the outset. Also, it must be noted that during his life, Gandhi is reported to have performed a total of 14 hunger strikes. In a 1997 editorial in the British Medical Journal, Peel briefly reviewed the available literature regarding human starvation. Generally, it appears as though humans can survive without any food for 30-40 days, as long as they are...
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First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?
Money & Business

First, they came for the Marmite... but what next as the pound falls?

...energy bills, for example. In the absence of a variation clause, or similar contractual mechanism, energy companies would face big losses if supply costs wildly fluctuated. Perhaps the most relevant historical precedent is the oil crisis of the 1970s. The severe disruption caused by rapid increases in oil prices led to high inflation and turmoil in the currency markets....
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60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU
Society, Politics & Law

60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU

...Energy Community (EURATOM). The Treaty blended a variety of relatively separate issues into a single package that each country was willing to sign up to. The Netherlands, for example, demanded that economic liberalisation, already underway in the wake of efforts to recover from the Second World War, be entrenched. Dutch producers were dependent on exports, particularly to...
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Article 10 mins
Citizen science and the data avalanche
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and the data avalanche

...energy particles from space that create pretty rings in the VERITAS telescope. This project was a runaway success, achieving well over a million classifications in the first five days. Our SuperWASP Variable Stars project asked volunteers to spot different types of binary stars orbiting each other, in a hunt for exotic stellar neighbourhoods. The CREDO experiment took a...
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