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Earth's physical resources: extracting coal and oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: extracting coal and oil

...determining the global distribution and availability of these valuable resources. They look at the formation of coal and how to mine it safely, the extraction of crude oil from the Athabasca oil sands and Colorado oil shale, and how we discovered reservoirs of oil in Jurassic rocks under the North Sea. This material forms part of S278, Earth's physical resources: origin,...
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Combating air pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Combating air pollution

...determine car emissions, but interpreting the data into real pollution statistics is harder than it seems. Clear solutions How to clean the air. Demonstration of methods used to remove pollutants from the air, including factory emissions. Industrial emissions How to curb industrial emissions of VOC's. The challenge facing British Aerospace in finding alternatives to...
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What is crime?
Society, Politics & Law

What is crime?

...determined within a very specific and limited set of criteria about what is crime. If a given act isn’t illegal, then whilst we might see it as wrong, or problematic or harmful, it’s not going to be something which will be defined as a crime. Many criminologists have argued that it is important to unpack the legal definition, and have questioned the very notions of...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...determines when you wake and sleep gets later during your teens, reaching its latest point by the age of 20. After 20, the body’s waking and sleeping times gradually get earlier again, until at 55 you naturally wake about the same time as you did when you were 10. The link between the movements of this biological clock and the process of puberty was so strong that the...
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What does the anatomy of World records reveal?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does the anatomy of World records reveal?

...determine what represents a record. To its shame the IOC only introduced Radcliffe’s event, the women’s Olympic marathon, in 1984. This stimulated more athletes to train for this distance. Since then women’s times have markedly improved by 6.2% (compared to 5.0% in men). Radcliffe’s record was set in a mixed sex race and so the record books also have another...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...determined; more specific because the particularities of a locality, history, community and organisation matter, but also less pre-determined because these specifics are highly changeable. It can be difficult to think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political...
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What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration
History & The Arts

What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration

...determine how things must be, they can hinder our efforts to understand other possibilities. When we define religion purely as a private or individual ‘believing in god’, we are continuing a tradition with a distinct history. People from many religions have quite different approaches to the topic. This is one part of the problem of understanding what makes some people...
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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...determined, including many that have roles in disease. These genes are scattered throughout the genome. Our genetic structure Every cell of a human being has two sets of twenty-three chromosomes and every cell of a given individual has exactly the same DNA in it, with the exception of the gamete cells, that is to say the sperm cells and the egg cells. Now these...
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