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Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...centre of the tree (Figure 7). As the wood decays, it becomes an attractive habitat for many rare invertebrates such as the hairy fungus beetle (Mycetophagus piceus) or the click beetles (Lacon querceus), the cardinal click beetle (Ampedus cardinalis) or the rusty click beetle (Elater ferrugineus). Some of these insects are so rare that they are known to exist at only one...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...children have beliefs about Santa Claus and physicists about ‘phlogiston’ (a substance once falsely believed to be released into the air during combustion). But if none of these things exists, if there is no Piltdown Man, no Santa Claus or phlogiston, then how can we have thoughts about them? What is it that our thoughts are about in such cases, since we appear to be...
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...children sie machen Besorgungen They run errands Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 12 items in each list. für einen Verein ehrenamtlich arbeiten Menschen mit Downsyndrom unterstützen die Säuglingsgruppe betreuen Eltern beraten einen Muttertreff haben jemanden gewisserweise als...
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...centre but decides to buy a house further out. She has lived quite frugally and managed to save a deposit for this, her first home. Buying the home will use all her cash savings. Interest rates are at a historic low and Meiling expects to continue in her present job for some years to come and to receive annual increments or increases in her salary as well as possible...
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...children consists of 10 boys and 15 girls. What is the ratio of girls to boys? Answer The raion is 3:2 (i.e.15 girls to 10 boys); note that we simplified the numbers. The behaviour of the sex chromosomes during meiosis is similar to that of all other pairs of chromosomes, that is the number is halved in each gamete. Thus the members of each of the 22 homologous pairs of...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...children on average than the other residents did, then (as red hair is a heritable character) the proportion of red-haired people in the population of that city would increase. The change would be due to chance and not because red-haired people were better adapted than other people. Genetic drift would be responsible, not natural selection. In a large population, however,...
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...children's building blocks called Lego®, you may find that a model based on this is helpful (seeSection 2.6)...Water for life: 2.6.1 (a) Using Lego as a model - In this kind of building set, there are a limited number of types of block and each block has a particular shape. Just as importantly, each one has a particular way in which it can link to other blocks because of...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...research for a really long time. Well, we’re talking about being able to choose to participate in these experiments as perfectly healthy people and really investigate what’s possible. It allows us to move with an alacrity that science and medicine cannot in its current state.” And the reality is that these endeavours do not go unnoticed by academics. Kevin Warwick...