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Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...the curve) and the other unbounded (the ‘outside’); Figure 2 shows such a curve C in the plane, with its inside shaded. Although the statement of the Jordan Curve Theorem is entirely plausible – indeed, it is fundamental to many parts of mathematics – the theorem is difficult to prove. In fact, it is likely that few mathematicians have ever seen a proof, because such proofs merely confirm what we already believe. It is good ......
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Challenge: Make paper and ink
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Challenge: Make paper and ink

...C for 3 hours until most of the lignin is broken down. The liquid is drained off and the pulp is washed to remove the chemicals. The resulting pulp is dark brown in colour. If it is made directly into paper, the resulting paper is strong but brown. This is the kind of paper out of which grocery bags and corrugated cardboard is made. For white paper, the pulp is bleached....
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...c.1480 in his Madonna of the Rose Garlands, in the shape of the lute-playing angel in the centre foreground. Dürer commented to Pirckheimer that, in his judgement, though of advancing years, Giovanni was ‘still the best painter of them all’. 24 Giovanni Bellini, born before 1440 and generally regarded by art historians as the foremost fifteenth-century Venetian...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
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Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...Planetary Protection for Human Missions to Mars’, NID 8715.129, 9 July, P.1(a)(c) [Online]. Available at: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/OPD_docs/NID_8715_129_.pdf American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act (HR 2809, 115th Congress, 25 April 2018), §80103 (c)(2)(C)(D) [the bill passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate]...
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...c.3 487 887 Write the following words in numbers: a.Six hundred and eight thousand, nine hundred and ten. b.Two million, seven hundred and eleven thousand, one hundred and six. c.Eight million, nine hundred thousand, four hundred. Put the following numbers in size order, starting with the smallest: 496 832 1 260 802 258 411 482 112 1 248 758 1 118 233 Answer The answers...
Introduction to computational thinking
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Introduction to computational thinking

...La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images). The part of reality for which one creates a model or representation doesn’t need to be a static object such as a pipe or dictionary. It can also be a process or system which changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are...
The Naming of Asteroids
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The Naming of Asteroids

...C) shows that it was the third discovery during that period. The letter I is not used in this convention, so the remaining 25 letters of the alphabet enable 25 asteroids to be designated during each half-month period. When this number is exceeded, the letter code sequence is repeated as any times as necessary with a numerical subscript that is incremented every 25...
World-Changing Women: Cynisca
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Cynisca

...c. 440 -? BCE Sport [Spartan woman running in the form of a bronze statue] A bronze statue of a Spartan woman In the ancient world, women in the Greek city of Sparta were allowed a greater public role, and more freedom than in most other cities. Although they did not have the vote, Spartan women were allowed by law both to inherit and to bequeath land, which was unknown...