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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...courses. Why do astronauts float on the space station? Contrary to popular belief, it isn't because there's no gravity. The gravitational pull of the Earth is almost as strong in the orbit of the International Space Station as it is on you as you read this. Astronauts are experiencing weightlessness because they are in a microgravity environment. But what is microgravity...
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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...course. Individual football clubs have to survive in a competitive market – competition for players, competition for TV income, competition against other leisure activities. Promotion to the Premier league is the biggest incentive of all: this can boost club income by up to £10m a year. Relegation to the First Division means an instant loss in revenue of £6m – £7m...
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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...course, be expected to make efficiency savings by sharing resources, something that has been shown to work effectively in the past. For example, earlier this year Warwickshire and West Mercia Police began sharing IT and training resources – and even responding to calls in each other’s localities – with great success. Osborne has said that revisions to OBR forecasts...
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The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...courses Between February and August 1981, the mostly women workers at Greenock’s Lee Jeans factory defied management intentions to close the plant. At a time when female unemployment in Greenock was 50% higher than in Scotland as a whole, the women argued that their factory was feasible and that corporate greed was the reason for closure. They seized control of the...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...course questions about what makes our life meaningful also arise in our ordinary mortal lives; just in our ordinary decisions about what kind of life to lead. Even if you think immortality isn’t a real possibility, it can still be useful to think about the possibility when we’re thinking about these more practical questions. And that’s because sometimes thinking...
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music

...courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to real-life people and events. The content is often based...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...courses. Background The American corporation Timex first came to Dundee in 1946, setting up with eleven workers in the back of a converted farm building. At its peak in the 1970s, Timex had become one of the largest employers in the city, employing thousands of workers at four sites across Dundee. Most of the Timex workforce were women and they performed intricate work...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long journey indeed! I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals, how they formed and how they behaved, so I studied mineralogy at university. I just loved the...
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